Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by DAVID Randy
MANILA, Philippines—The Bangsamoro problem is entangled in so many historical, legal, cultural and political questions that it is irresponsible to talk about it in a simplistic way. Every attempt to capture the issues in a single frame is bound to inflame passions and exacerbate prejudices. (…)
, by LEE-BRAGO Pia
The United Nations has begun airlifting food to Mindanao to avert a major humanitarian crisis as thousands flee fighting between Muslim rebels and troops, officials said yesterday. Fighting continued as soldiers used artillery and helicopter gun ships to pound rebel positions around towns and (…)
, by Makati Business Club
We are for peace in the entire Philippines, in Mindanao, in Visayas, and in Luzon. We are for a peace process that consults all and involves all. We are for transparency at every step of the process, from negotiation of the terms, through to the articulation of the agreement and the (…)
, by DORONILA Amando
MANILA, Philippines—When the Supreme Court stopped the signing on Aug. 5 of the draft agreement seeking to establish an expanded Bangsamoro homeland, Mohagher Iqbal, chief negotiator of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, said that the last-minute cancellation made it clear to the international (…)
For a long time, Indonesia refused to let go of East Timor even if it meant military occupation of the territory and international condemnation for the massive human rights violations committed to enforce its rule. Then the 1997 regional economic crisis struck. Indonesia’s economy crashed and (…)
, by PANGALANGAN Raul, Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) hammered out by government negotiators and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is riddled with so many legal and constitutional flaws and political obstacles, it’s no wonder the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wanted to keep it under wraps for (…)
, by KPD-Mindanao
The rush into signing of the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the GRP and the MILF was a handiwork of the US government to further its control over Mindanao and Sulu.
The interventionist maneuvers of the US government are at work during these last few years in (…)
, by CASTRO Isagani de
The collapse of the talks between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on an expanded Moro homeland is “the most serious threat” to the peace process and may eventually lead to war, according to an analyst.
Zainudin Malang, a lawyer of the Bangsa Moro Center for (…)
, by CASTRO Isagani de
As in other peace accords, the initialing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on Ancestral Domain by the Philippine government (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) would be the easy part. The really difficult task would be how to win public support for the accord and in actually (…)
, by DAVID Randy
MANILA, Philippines—Or, is it a colony? The question may seem preposterous to those who are content to see reality purely in legal terms. But, it is one that must be asked with all seriousness in the light of events like those triggered by the recent abduction of broadcast journalist Ces Drilon (…)
, by Mindanao Examiner
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / June 19, 2008) – Former Muslim separatist rebels have stood behind one of their leaders accused as involved in the kidnapping of a Filipino television presenter and three others in the southern island of Sulu.
The Moro National Liberation Front (…)
ZAMBOANGA CITY (February 18, 2008) — Members of a citizens’ fact-finding mission walked up inside Camp Navarro in Zamboanga City and confirmed the presence of a little known fortified US military base with communication facilities inside the Philippine military camp.
Asserting the right to (…)
Disturbed by the evident duplicity on the part of the US and Philippine governments on the issue and dismayed by the failure of our elected representatives to act, we, members of the Citizens Peace Watch, have taken the initiative to probe deeper into the issue of US basing and intervention in (…)
, by JACINTO Al
SULU, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Feb. 21, 2008) – Instead of winning hearts and minds, US soldiers involved in humanitarian mission in Sulu province may be losing more than gaining the support of local Muslims.
Dozens of villagers said they waited for hours outside a school in Kalingalan (…)
, by MARTIN G. Eugene, TUMINEZ Astrid S., USIP
The discussions – or polemics – on the US role in the GRP-MILF negociations and the recent Washington politics toward the MILF often refer to a report prepared by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). We repoduce below an official summary of this report (from USIP website) – with a link (…)
, by SIMBULAN Roland G.
Introduction More than a century ago, during the time that the first U.S. visiting forces came to this island to crush guerrilla resistance of our freedom fighters in Mindanao, the U.S. Army composed a song, which is still found in the records of the U.S.Army’s pacification campaign in (…)
, by REYES Ike de los
Contribution presented at the GTZ Partner’s Forum, Waterfront Hotel, Davao City, December 6, 2007.
INTRODUCTION
Initiatives and methods to transform violence to less violent and to peace are as varied as the diversities of circumstances and contexts they find themselves in. The (…)
TEN YEARS AGO, on October 9, 1997, the Mapadayunong Panaghiusa sa mga Lumad Alang sa Damlag Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MAPALAD-MPC), a group of farmers composed of 137 families staged a 28-day lugol, an indigenous form of hunger strike to express their demand to redistribute the 144 hectares of (…)
, by TORRES Jose Jr.
This article was first published in Newsbreak’s first special issue on Mindanao, January 2003. Former Basilan Governor, later elected Representative Wahab Akbar was reportedly killed in the November 13, 2007 blast at the Batasan Pambansa Complex that killed two other individuals and wounded (…)
, by Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)
The Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) in solidarity with the entire Muslim community, calls on the entire Filipino nation in the observance of Holy month of Ramadan. As an occasion to fulfill the pillars of Islam, the entire Muslim Ummah observes this month-long fasting to (…)
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