Showing posts with label peace process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peace process. Show all posts
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Church among peace spoilers, says MILF
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
AFP verifies legitimacy of CPLA head, backs closure agreement with gov’t
Manila, May 5 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) today verified the legitimacy of the leadership of Arsenio Humiding, chairman of the Cordillera People's Liberation Army (CPLA) and ensured support for the armed group’s closure agreement with the government.
“The CPLA is legitimately led by Arsenio Humiding, his group is what we recognize,” said Brig. Gen. Jose Mabanta Jr., AFP Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (J3).
The CPLA, an armed group of indigenous peoples in the Cordilleras which split from the New People’s Army (NPA), signed the Mt. Data Peace Accord in September 1986 under the administration of the late President Corazon C. Aquino.
Mabanta rejected claims of other parties that they are the recognized CPLA, calling them "rogues".
The CPLA has submitted a manifesto to us wherein all zone commanders pledged allegiance to the leadership of Chairman Humiding. he said.
Humiding took his oath as CPLA Chairman on April 3 during the Cordillera Bodong Administration (CBA)/CPLA Political Bureau Conference in Baguio City.
Meanwhile, Mabanta issued support for the closure agreement that the government and CPLA will sign tomorrow, May 6.
"This is peace and development we are ushering, and the signing that will happen between CPLA and our government shows what I thoroughly believe in, a holistic people-centered strategy in winning the peace.”
Mabanta, on his oath taking as AFP’s new operations chief, ensured the public with an appropriate execution of the new Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP) also known as “Bayanihan” which is focused on the approach of “winning the peace.” #
“The CPLA is legitimately led by Arsenio Humiding, his group is what we recognize,” said Brig. Gen. Jose Mabanta Jr., AFP Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (J3).
The CPLA, an armed group of indigenous peoples in the Cordilleras which split from the New People’s Army (NPA), signed the Mt. Data Peace Accord in September 1986 under the administration of the late President Corazon C. Aquino.
Mabanta rejected claims of other parties that they are the recognized CPLA, calling them "rogues".
The CPLA has submitted a manifesto to us wherein all zone commanders pledged allegiance to the leadership of Chairman Humiding. he said.
Humiding took his oath as CPLA Chairman on April 3 during the Cordillera Bodong Administration (CBA)/CPLA Political Bureau Conference in Baguio City.
Meanwhile, Mabanta issued support for the closure agreement that the government and CPLA will sign tomorrow, May 6.
"This is peace and development we are ushering, and the signing that will happen between CPLA and our government shows what I thoroughly believe in, a holistic people-centered strategy in winning the peace.”
Mabanta, on his oath taking as AFP’s new operations chief, ensured the public with an appropriate execution of the new Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP) also known as “Bayanihan” which is focused on the approach of “winning the peace.” #
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
10,000 say, 'No to endless negotiation, yes to Bangsamoro sub-state
10,000 say, 'No to endless negotiation, yes to Bangsamoro sub-state'
26-Apr-11, 9:54 PM | Romy Elusfa, special to InterAksyon.com
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COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Thousands of residents of central Mindanao turned out Tuesday to call for the completion of what they called “endless (peace) negotiations” between government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and demanded the creation of a Bangsamoro sub-state.
An estimated 10,000 people lined the route of a caravan that left this city and went through major towns in the provinces of Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat and North Cotabato in what organizers called a “ceremonial send-off” for government and MILF negotiators who are meeting April27-28 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for exploratory talks.
Streamers along the caravan’s route said: “No to endless negotiations,” and, “We are for the creation of a Bangsamoro sub-state.”
The demands echoed sentiments earlier expressed to Mindanao peace advocates by Ustadz Amiril Umbra Kato, an MILF commander who broke away to form the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter (BIFF) to protest the “long years of negotiation which have not produced any concrete result.”
Bobby Benito, executive director of the Bangsamoro Council for Just Peace, which organized the caravan with the Mindanao Alliance for Peace, said in an interview that “this is an indication of the Bangsamoro people’s support (for) the peace talks and a manifestation of our agreement with the legitimate demands that the MILF has forwarded to the government.”
Carlo Abdulmalik Cleofe, advocacy officer of the Mindanao Peoples Caucus, echoed this, saying: “This (caravan) shows that the Bangsamoro people (are) really behind the negotiation and the agenda of the MILF.”
Supporters of the Mindanao peace negotiations in Davao City were set to put up a 200-meter “Human Chain for Peace” along Quimpo Boulevard, also on Tuesday.
Rexall Kaalim, senior staff of the MPC, which organized the Human Chain for Peace, said, “These actions are intended not just to show massive support on the peace talks but also to demand concrete results from the negotiations.”
He said civil society organizations are urging both government and MILF peace panels to seal a negotiated political settlement to the decades-old Mindanao conflict “in the next twelve months.”
Kato’s tirade against the slow pace of peace negotiations was made at a meeting with officers of Bantay Ceasefire, the ceasefire monitoring arm of the MPC, which met him in the hinterlands of Maguindanao shortly before the Holy Week.
The MPC report on the meeting with Kato, which it submitted to the peace negotiating panels of the government and the MILF, quoted the BIFF commander as saying: “I am not against the negotiations, against ako sa walang hangganan na negosasyon (I am against the endless negotiations).”
The report quoted Kato as saying: “Sige lang exploratory, ang tagal-tagal na, pero hindi pa rin nila alam kung ano ang pag-uusapan (They keep on holding exploratory talks, it’s been so long, yet they still don’t know what to talk about).”
Kato also criticized the Malaysian facilitator of the peace talks, Datuk Othman bin Abdu' Razak.
“If you are the facilitator, you should know what the problem is,” he was quoted as saying. “The facilitator personally witnessed that the government did not comply with the commitment in the MOA-AD (Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain), but it did not do anything because it is one with government. They are just fooling the Bangsamoro people.”
The MOA-AD would have paved the way for the creation of a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity. However, on the eve of its signing in August 2008, it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
This was followed by renewed fighting in central Mindanao that, at its height, displaced up to 7000,000 people.
Kato was one of the MILF commanders then who were accused of triggering the violence by attacking a number of communities.
Earlier, government negotiators also expressed displeasure with Othman and asked that he be replaced, a demand the MILF opposed. This caused a delay in the resumption of the talks.
26-Apr-11, 9:54 PM | Romy Elusfa, special to InterAksyon.com
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COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Thousands of residents of central Mindanao turned out Tuesday to call for the completion of what they called “endless (peace) negotiations” between government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and demanded the creation of a Bangsamoro sub-state.
An estimated 10,000 people lined the route of a caravan that left this city and went through major towns in the provinces of Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat and North Cotabato in what organizers called a “ceremonial send-off” for government and MILF negotiators who are meeting April27-28 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for exploratory talks.
Streamers along the caravan’s route said: “No to endless negotiations,” and, “We are for the creation of a Bangsamoro sub-state.”
The demands echoed sentiments earlier expressed to Mindanao peace advocates by Ustadz Amiril Umbra Kato, an MILF commander who broke away to form the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter (BIFF) to protest the “long years of negotiation which have not produced any concrete result.”
Bobby Benito, executive director of the Bangsamoro Council for Just Peace, which organized the caravan with the Mindanao Alliance for Peace, said in an interview that “this is an indication of the Bangsamoro people’s support (for) the peace talks and a manifestation of our agreement with the legitimate demands that the MILF has forwarded to the government.”
Carlo Abdulmalik Cleofe, advocacy officer of the Mindanao Peoples Caucus, echoed this, saying: “This (caravan) shows that the Bangsamoro people (are) really behind the negotiation and the agenda of the MILF.”
Supporters of the Mindanao peace negotiations in Davao City were set to put up a 200-meter “Human Chain for Peace” along Quimpo Boulevard, also on Tuesday.
Rexall Kaalim, senior staff of the MPC, which organized the Human Chain for Peace, said, “These actions are intended not just to show massive support on the peace talks but also to demand concrete results from the negotiations.”
He said civil society organizations are urging both government and MILF peace panels to seal a negotiated political settlement to the decades-old Mindanao conflict “in the next twelve months.”
Kato’s tirade against the slow pace of peace negotiations was made at a meeting with officers of Bantay Ceasefire, the ceasefire monitoring arm of the MPC, which met him in the hinterlands of Maguindanao shortly before the Holy Week.
The MPC report on the meeting with Kato, which it submitted to the peace negotiating panels of the government and the MILF, quoted the BIFF commander as saying: “I am not against the negotiations, against ako sa walang hangganan na negosasyon (I am against the endless negotiations).”
The report quoted Kato as saying: “Sige lang exploratory, ang tagal-tagal na, pero hindi pa rin nila alam kung ano ang pag-uusapan (They keep on holding exploratory talks, it’s been so long, yet they still don’t know what to talk about).”
Kato also criticized the Malaysian facilitator of the peace talks, Datuk Othman bin Abdu' Razak.
“If you are the facilitator, you should know what the problem is,” he was quoted as saying. “The facilitator personally witnessed that the government did not comply with the commitment in the MOA-AD (Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain), but it did not do anything because it is one with government. They are just fooling the Bangsamoro people.”
The MOA-AD would have paved the way for the creation of a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity. However, on the eve of its signing in August 2008, it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
This was followed by renewed fighting in central Mindanao that, at its height, displaced up to 7000,000 people.
Kato was one of the MILF commanders then who were accused of triggering the violence by attacking a number of communities.
Earlier, government negotiators also expressed displeasure with Othman and asked that he be replaced, a demand the MILF opposed. This caused a delay in the resumption of the talks.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Lumads take up case of slain Lumad leader, landgrabbing to GPH peace panel
Press Release
April 19, 2011
Lumads take up case of slain Lumad leader, landgrabbing to GPH peace panel
Davao City --- Lumad leaders shared optimism that the government peace negotiators can take up the case of Datu Dominador Diarog, whose 3rd death anniversary is on April 29, remains an unsolved extra-judicial killing linked to a dispute involving the land-grabbing by a powerful religious cult leader. Fresh incidents of land-grabbing coupled with abusive military operations have again been reported early this month in Sitio Kahusayan, Brgy. Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District, this city.
GPH representative to the peace talks Ednar Dayanghirang in a forum on Land, Life and Justice organized by the Solidarity Action Group for Indigenous Peopls (SAGIP) here at Haran House, UCCP, said he will talk to the Office of the Presidential Affairs for Peace Process (OPAPP) to follow up the case of the 2008 killing of Kahusayan leader Datu Dominador Diarog and the continuing landgrabbing of their ancestral lands by the influential group of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.
In the past week, lumads from Kahusayan are again restless as 3 backhoes arrived together with a platoon of army soldiers from the 84th Infantry Battalion were deployed to their community, threatening to bulldoze their ancestral lands.
“This renewed attempt to completely drive us away from our ancestral lands is condemnable. We appeal to the conscience of the masterminds behind these landgrabbing attempts to leave us and our land in peace. We also demand that the long overdue resolution of the Davao City Council to remove the barb-wired fences put up by Quiboloy around our peoples’ lands. We have waited long enough and we see no progress in what the Davao City Council has promised to do,” said Diolito Diarog, one of the council leaders of the Kahugpungan sa mga Lumad sa Kahusayan (KSL) and PASAKA spokesperson.
“The pine trees surrounding the palace of Quiboloy and the fences put up to deny us of our access to our traditional hunting grounds, sources of water, have worsened the poverty and hunger we experience. Continued militarization by government troops paid to serve the ones lording over us in Quiboloy’s palace has never since allowed us to live in peace and bounty, affecting our culture, threatening the development of our tribe,” said Diarog. #
For Reference:
DIOLITO DIAROG
Deputy Secretary General
PASAKA
Contact: 09303035126
April 19, 2011
Lumads take up case of slain Lumad leader, landgrabbing to GPH peace panel
Davao City --- Lumad leaders shared optimism that the government peace negotiators can take up the case of Datu Dominador Diarog, whose 3rd death anniversary is on April 29, remains an unsolved extra-judicial killing linked to a dispute involving the land-grabbing by a powerful religious cult leader. Fresh incidents of land-grabbing coupled with abusive military operations have again been reported early this month in Sitio Kahusayan, Brgy. Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District, this city.
GPH representative to the peace talks Ednar Dayanghirang in a forum on Land, Life and Justice organized by the Solidarity Action Group for Indigenous Peopls (SAGIP) here at Haran House, UCCP, said he will talk to the Office of the Presidential Affairs for Peace Process (OPAPP) to follow up the case of the 2008 killing of Kahusayan leader Datu Dominador Diarog and the continuing landgrabbing of their ancestral lands by the influential group of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.
In the past week, lumads from Kahusayan are again restless as 3 backhoes arrived together with a platoon of army soldiers from the 84th Infantry Battalion were deployed to their community, threatening to bulldoze their ancestral lands.
“This renewed attempt to completely drive us away from our ancestral lands is condemnable. We appeal to the conscience of the masterminds behind these landgrabbing attempts to leave us and our land in peace. We also demand that the long overdue resolution of the Davao City Council to remove the barb-wired fences put up by Quiboloy around our peoples’ lands. We have waited long enough and we see no progress in what the Davao City Council has promised to do,” said Diolito Diarog, one of the council leaders of the Kahugpungan sa mga Lumad sa Kahusayan (KSL) and PASAKA spokesperson.
“The pine trees surrounding the palace of Quiboloy and the fences put up to deny us of our access to our traditional hunting grounds, sources of water, have worsened the poverty and hunger we experience. Continued militarization by government troops paid to serve the ones lording over us in Quiboloy’s palace has never since allowed us to live in peace and bounty, affecting our culture, threatening the development of our tribe,” said Diarog. #
For Reference:
DIOLITO DIAROG
Deputy Secretary General
PASAKA
Contact: 09303035126
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