Who Are The Filipino Militant Group Abu Sayyaf?

Edit Newsweek 26 Apr 2016
The group, established in 1991 by Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani, was created by former members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), a Muslim rebel group fighting authorities in the southern Philippines ... The separatist group’s primary aim is to create a state under radical Islamic law in the southern Philippines for the Moro People, part of the country’s Muslim minority group, using fear and violence to achieve its goal....

Grassroots leader says non-passage of BBL poses new challenges for peace advocates

Edit Topix 31 Jan 2016
A female leader of a grassroots organization here challenged peace advocates "to help find ways in peace-building" given that "ignorance of the lawmakers on the real cause of the Bangsamoro struggle killed the BBL" under the Aquino administration. Zaynab Ampatuan, former head of the League of Filipino Students at the University of Southern Mindanao and now executive director of the Moro People's Core in Kabacan, North Cotabato ... ....

Nine killed in Philippine rebel attack

Edit Taipei Times 26 Dec 2015
However, the ceasefire with the main Moro Islamic ... In March last year, the Philippines signed a peace deal with the main Muslim rebels granting the minority Moro people autonomy in exchange for dismantling the 11,000-strong guerrilla army and turning over their weapons, ending a 45-year conflict that killed 120,000 people and displaced 2 million....

Breakaway Muslim rebels kill nine people in southern Philippines

Edit Yahoo Daily News 26 Dec 2015
The ceasefire with the main Moro Islamic Liberation Front ... In March 2014, the Philippines signed a peace deal with the main Muslim rebels granting the minority Moro people autonomy in exchange for dismantling the 11,000-strong guerrilla army and turning over their weapons, ending a 45-year conflict that killed 120,000 people and displaced 2 million....

Australia reaffirms support for Philippines peace process (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Australian ...

Edit Public Technologies 16 Nov 2015
(Source ... Media release. 16 November 2015. Today I met with the Philippines Presidential Advisor on the Peace Process between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to reaffirm Australia's support for the peace process ... The Peace Agreement, signed in March 2014, aims to end more than four decades of conflict over the desire of the Moro people for greater autonomy ... (noodl....

IFI church to launch signature campaign to oust Aquino

Edit Sun Star 08 Mar 2015
“We call on our faithful members and the Filipino people to pursue the way of peace, for there is no substitute of peace; to continue to support the peace process between the GPH and MILF as means to end the long history of conflict tormenting our Moro people; and to oppose on-goings calls for all-out war espoused by some quarters of our government against the Moro people,” it said....

Again, the BBL is for the Moro people

Edit Sun Star 05 Mar 2015
The involvement of the MILF (18 of its fighters died) in the clash provoked some sectors to demonize the MILF by dredging up old issues against the Moro people ... That is faulty logic simply because the BBL, and the Bangsamoro entity that it will create, is for the Moro people and not solely for the MILF. The MILF was created not to advance the personal interests of its leaders but to push for the cause of the Moro people....

Media urged to tackle Mamasapano issue based on reason

Edit Sun Star 05 Mar 2015
Speaking before journalists, Iqbal said the Mamasapano incident, which killed 44 SAF policemen, 18 MILF fighters, and five civilians, has again brought to the forefront long standing biases against the Moro people ... Iqbal said cultural and emotional biases against the Moro people is threatening to undermine 17 years of peace efforts between the GPH and the MILF....

MILF members to register as voters

Edit Sun Star 05 Mar 2015
Moro groups will clash if BBL is passed Roxas hits back at Binay over leadership issue Treason complaint filed vs Aquino over Mamasapano bloodshed, BBL ... Through the CAB, the MILF has agreed to end its rebellion against the Philippine state in exchange for granting the Moro people with a truly meaningful political autonomy, to be embodied in the envisioned Bangsamoro entity....

BBL won’t benefit MILF alone

Edit Sun Star 02 Mar 2015
The bill was introduced in September or around four months before the Mamasapano, Maguindanao clash that killed 44 elements of the Special Action Force, 18 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters and five civilians ... And here’s one point that the people should remember ... The BBL is for the Bangsamoro people, or those who want to be part of a Bangsamoro entity. In a way, it is a gift of the Philippine state to the Moro people....

Lawmaker: Stop all-out war in Mindanao

Edit Sun Star 01 Mar 2015
Anakpawis said that massive militarization will only result to more human rights violations against the Moro people and the escalation of the armed conflict thereby eroding every effort that had already been exerted in the officially still on-going peace process in Mindanao, particularly with the MILF....

Xavier U: The courageous and just

Edit Sun Star 24 Feb 2015
political – because of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), and sad to say, personal – their shared experience and notion towards the Moro people; it can go worse, on basis of religious biases – because they are “Christians” and the others are “Muslims,” and worst – a mix of it all of the mentioned, then adding the element of Ignoramus Maximus in-between....

Recto seeks revision of Bangsamoro law

Edit Sun Star 16 Feb 2015
Based on the statement of some government officials, Recto said a big chunk of the P75-billion estimates on the fiscal impact of the creation of the Moro sub-state in Mindanao is in the form of a "block grant," which in 2016, will be around P27 billion ... If the revenue-sharing template will be provided to the Moro people, Recto said the LGUs then should have the right to clamor for the same....
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