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| Hitman | Aug 6 2011, 08:01 AM Post #11 |
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thats a good move, whatever it takes to solve our muslim seccessionist movement will be better for the economy and the AFP as we can more focus on economic stability and external defense. Our muslim brothers need to be heard too. Because if we don't , we know they will fight to the end and the whole country will only suffer more. Mindanao remember is very rich in natural resources. Peace in Mindanao means prosperity to us. This needs to be solved in a creative and smart way not by military solution. Filipino muslims are more intelligent than the Tamil Tigers. Which mean the Filipino muslim can get a stalement or win this war, taking into consideration the support they are getting in the middle east and our neighboring muslim countries. Especially with the pabaon culture of the AFP and Politikos. I applaud Pnoy for doing this. those who oppose this are ignorant or belong to the extreme right groups which are considered terrorists. |
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| 3Eighty | Aug 6 2011, 01:43 PM Post #12 |
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Peace agreement with the MILF should be expedited so the AFP could concentrate its resources on External Defense. |
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| Frenzy | Aug 6 2011, 02:28 PM Post #13 |
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Pinol to PNoy on meeting Murad: Go ahead; for peace, protocol be damned GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/06 August) – For peace, protocol be damned. Former North Cotabato Governor Emmanuel Pinol, once dubbed as the “number one obstacle to the Bangsamoro peace process,” said he was “surprised but not scared” when he learned of President Aquino’s meeting Thursday night in Japan with Moro Islamic Liberation Front chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim but urged the public to support the President because the search for peace “must not be hostaged by formalities and protocols.” “Let us throw to the wastebasket of Philippine history all of those formalities and diplomatic protocols which have encumbered the search for peace in the Southern Philippines. There are many ways and methods in solving a conflict and we should give President Aquino the flexibility to do things he believes should be undertaken to achieve the objective,” Pinol said in an e-mailed statement. “Let us all be comfortable with the thought that this President, however simplistic his view of governance is, possesses no insatiable desire for money, or craves for more years in power,” he said. Pinol said there are varied reactions to the President’s meeting with Murad, but while he may have violated diplomatic protocols by talking directly to a rebel leader, “the frank eyeball-to-eyeball meeting shows that President Aquino is committed to bring the conflict in the South, which has stunted the growth of the region and caused untold miseries to the people, to a peaceful end.” “Christian leaders in Mindanao, who in all modesty look up to me as their champion in defending the Christian population’s position in the negotiations, have frantically texted me asking if President Aquino, has betrayed us?” Pinol said, adding his response was, “Relax. Let’s give him an elbow room in handling this problem.” Pinol was governor of North Cotabato from 1998 to 2007 and vice governor of North Cotabato from 2007 to 2010. In 2008, he led local government units in going to the Supreme Court to stop the government peace panel from signing the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) with the MILF. The Supreme Court issued a TRO on August 4, 2008, the eve of the formal signing of the already initialed agreement. He said Aquino, was one of the key leaders of the LP then and “there are still pictures in the internet showing him seated beside former Senator Mar Roxas, Senator Franklin Drilon and myself as we waged the campaign against what he said was a “secretive” signing of the document which Pinol said “would have established a semi-independent Islamic State embracing almoost half of the Island of Mindanao.” He said President Aquino’s attitude on the peace process “is that of a Big Brother who would like to bring conflicting parties to an honest tete-a-tete, much like squabbling kids who are brought together and asked: ‘Hey, what’s your problem?’” He said this was what was lacking in the previous administration’s peace effort which was “too formal and bound by diplomatic protocols and formalities that it hardly moved forward.” But Pinol said the Aquino administration must keep in mind what he said were two important positions embraced by the majority of the Mindanawons: “No Islamic sub-state and no expansion of the autonomous area. There is no point expanding a region which is the poorest in the country and where governance is marked by massive corruption and creating a sub-state on the basis of religion could raise another Constitutional question;” and “Socio-economic solutions must be emphasized over political arrangements and accommodations. No amount of peace agreements could assure that there will be an end to the conflict in Mindanao if the Muslims continue to wallow in poverty and deprivation, if they are not able to send their children to school and if they are not given the services due them as citizens of this Republic.” http://www.mindanews.com/peace-process/201...ocol-be-damned/ |
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