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'''Philippine rebels’ frustration grows'''
'''MILF calls for freeze of oil, gas exploration in Moro areas'''
*Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2011/10/04/2003514900
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=377153
*Tue, Oct 04, 2011
*October 5, 2011, 5:52 pm
:By Taipei Times
:By (PNA) DCT/LAP/NYP/EOF




AFP, SULTAN KUDARAT, Philippines
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao, Oct. 5 (PNA) -- The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has reiterated its call for the national government to freeze the oil and gas exploration in Moro areas, pending the final resolution of the Moro Question and the armed conflict in Mindanao, particularly on the aspect of ancestral domain.


Ageing Muslim rebel leaders in the southern Philippines are voicing growing frustration that efforts to end one of Asia’s longest and deadliest insurgencies have hit a diplomatic brick wall.
In a statement, Muhammad Ameen, chairperson of the MILF Secretariat, said that freezing the bidding and awarding of contracts for the exploration of oil and gas in the Sulu Sea and the Liguasan Marsh in Central Mindanao would be seen as a clear indication the government is sincere in the current GPH-MILF peace negotiation.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Murad Ebrahim expressed hope after an historic meeting with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III in August that peace talks were on a “fast-track” and a final deal was within sight.
However, negotiations stalled soon after when the government offered its roadmap for peace, a document Murad called an “exercise in futility” and said could lead to reigniting a conflict that has claimed an estimated 150,000 lives.
“There is an impression that it is even heaven and earth,” Murad told reporters recently at the MILF’s rural Camp Darapanan headquarters in the southern Philippines, in reference to the two sides’ positions.
Murad insisted there would be no more direct talks between two sides’ peace panels until the government produced a more realistic and workable blueprint. The government has rejected the MILF’s demand.
The stalemate is the latest setback to 10 years of talks that some observers say are inevitably doomed because the national government will not be able to meet the MILF’s core requirement of an autonomous substate in the south.
There are about 4 million Muslims in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao, an area they see as their ancestral homeland dating back to Islamic sultanates established long before Spanish Christians arrived in the 1500s.
The region is among the most fertile and resource-rich in the Philippines, but it is also one of the country’s poorest and undeveloped, a legacy of the conflict that began four decades ago.
Muslims, known as Bangsamoro, are now a minority in Mindanao, but insist they should be allowed to largely govern the region themselves and control its potential riches.
“We feel we are colonized,” Murad said.
The MILF, the largest Muslim rebel group with about 12,000 soldiers, has for the past decade sought to negotiate a settlement rather than achieve its aims through armed insurgency, which peaked in the 1970s when an all-out war raged.
However negotiations have gone virtually nowhere since 2008 when the Supreme Court blocked a peace deal that would have opened the door to an autonomous Muslim substate, ruling it was “unconstitutional.”
Aquino, who came to power last year, promised to reinvigorate the peace process and invested much personal capital by meeting Murad in August.
Their encounter in Japan was the first ever face-to-face talks between a sitting Philippine president and a MILF leader.
However the optimism within the MILF faded after the government put forward its peace plan a few weeks later with the explicit condition that it will only work within the Constitution, effectively ruling out a substate.
At this stage, Aquino is unwilling to invest further political capital by lobbying Congress to change the Constitution for what many among the majority Catholic population would oppose, security analyst Rommel Banlaoi said.
“Right now there is a huge gap in misunderstanding,” Banlaoi, head of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism, said after he met with Murad.
“The Philippine government insists on using the constitutional framework to address the Bangsamoro problem, but the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is insisting that what they want is a substate,” Banlaoi said.


Ageing Muslim rebel leaders in the southern Philippines are voicing growing frustration that efforts to end one of Asia’s longest and deadliest insurgencies have hit a diplomatic brick wall.
“We do not want these explorations to complicate the peace process and more importantly result in undue deprivation of our people for their rightful share in the natural wealth,” Ameen said.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Murad Ebrahim expressed hope after an historic meeting with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III in August that peace talks were on a “fast-track” and a final deal was within sight.
 
However, negotiations stalled soon after when the government offered its roadmap for peace, a document Murad called an “exercise in futility” and said could lead to reigniting a conflict that has claimed an estimated 150,000 lives.
“I hope the Aquino administration would listen to our people’s pleas,” he stressed.
“There is an impression that it is even heaven and earth,” Murad told reporters recently at the MILF’s rural Camp Darapanan headquarters in the southern Philippines, in reference to the two sides’ positions.
 
Murad insisted there would be no more direct talks between two sides’ peace panels until the government produced a more realistic and workable blueprint. The government has rejected the MILF’s demand.
He recalled that the MILF peace panel had formally presented the request to the government to suspend this oil and gas explorations during the 22nd GPH-MILF Exploratory Talks in Kuala Lumpur last August 22-23.
The stalemate is the latest setback to 10 years of talks that some observers say are inevitably doomed because the national government will not be able to meet the MILF’s core requirement of an autonomous substate in the south.
 
There are about 4 million Muslims in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao, an area they see as their ancestral homeland dating back to Islamic sultanates established long before Spanish Christians arrived in the 1500s.
In response, the government through its chief peace negotiator, Dean Marvic Leonen, assured that now the matter had been formally taken up in the negotiation, he would bring up the issue to his principal for disposition.
The region is among the most fertile and resource-rich in the Philippines, but it is also one of the country’s poorest and undeveloped, a legacy of the conflict that began four decades ago.
 
Muslims, known as Bangsamoro, are now a minority in Mindanao, but insist they should be allowed to largely govern the region themselves and control its potential riches.
Ameen also expects that the matter will be discussed anew once the GPH and MILF peace panel resumes talking with the facilitation of Malaysia.
“We feel we are colonized,” Murad said.
 
The MILF, the largest Muslim rebel group with about 12,000 soldiers, has for the past decade sought to negotiate a settlement rather than achieve its aims through armed insurgency, which peaked in the 1970s when an all-out war raged.
The MILF is expecting the resumption of the stalled peace process after it prepared a new proposal following the deadlock over differences in sub-state issue and the expanded autonomy.
However negotiations have gone virtually nowhere since 2008 when the Supreme Court blocked a peace deal that would have opened the door to an autonomous Muslim substate, ruling it was “unconstitutional.”
 
Aquino, who came to power last year, promised to reinvigorate the peace process and invested much personal capital by meeting Murad in August.
While there were "differences in the appreciation of the proposals and misunderstanding" in the process, both sides, the GPH and MILF with the facilitator behind them, have not shut the door in finding a peaceful, political settlement of the Mindanao Moro problem.
Their encounter in Japan was the first ever face-to-face talks between a sitting Philippine president and a MILF leader.
 
However the optimism within the MILF faded after the government put forward its peace plan a few weeks later with the explicit condition that it will only work within the Constitution, effectively ruling out a substate.
Ghazali Jaafar, MILF vice chair for political affairs, was quoted by a local newspaper as saying that the MILF maintains its original position that “we are for a peaceful and political solution to the Bangsamoro problem in Mindanao.”
At this stage, Aquino is unwilling to invest further political capital by lobbying Congress to change the Constitution for what many among the majority Catholic population would oppose, security analyst Rommel Banlaoi said.
 
“Right now there is a huge gap in misunderstanding,” Banlaoi, head of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism, said after he met with Murad.
"We believe in the sincerity of the Aquino government and we remain hopeful," Jaafar said.
“The Philippine government insists on using the constitutional framework to address the Bangsamoro problem, but the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is insisting that what they want is a substate,” Banlaoi said.
 
In her visit to Cotabato City, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Deles, said President Aquino’s directive remained and being pursued.
 
“The President wanted a peace deal with the MILF that is acceptable to all stakeholders in southern Philippines and that he is hoping it will come within his term,” Deles told a group of journalist in a brief interview.
 
Jaafar said once the formal talks resume, the MILF is expecting that the main agenda would be the new proposal and that the case of Ameril Umra Kato, former MILF field commander, expelled by the MILF for disobedience and forming his own group.
 
Jaafar said the MILF central committee has forwarded a resolution to the Malaysian facilitator on its action against Kato and his group.
 
Earlier, the GPH peace panel expressed concerned over Kato’s case but still it considered the issue with him as internal to the MILF.
 
But Jaafar quickly said the MILF resolution on Kato must not be interpreted as a “passport” for security forces to hunt down the renegade rebel leader.


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MILF calls for freeze of oil, gas exploration in Moro areas

By (PNA) DCT/LAP/NYP/EOF


SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao, Oct. 5 (PNA) -- The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has reiterated its call for the national government to freeze the oil and gas exploration in Moro areas, pending the final resolution of the Moro Question and the armed conflict in Mindanao, particularly on the aspect of ancestral domain.

In a statement, Muhammad Ameen, chairperson of the MILF Secretariat, said that freezing the bidding and awarding of contracts for the exploration of oil and gas in the Sulu Sea and the Liguasan Marsh in Central Mindanao would be seen as a clear indication the government is sincere in the current GPH-MILF peace negotiation.

“We do not want these explorations to complicate the peace process and more importantly result in undue deprivation of our people for their rightful share in the natural wealth,” Ameen said.

“I hope the Aquino administration would listen to our people’s pleas,” he stressed.

He recalled that the MILF peace panel had formally presented the request to the government to suspend this oil and gas explorations during the 22nd GPH-MILF Exploratory Talks in Kuala Lumpur last August 22-23.

In response, the government through its chief peace negotiator, Dean Marvic Leonen, assured that now the matter had been formally taken up in the negotiation, he would bring up the issue to his principal for disposition.

Ameen also expects that the matter will be discussed anew once the GPH and MILF peace panel resumes talking with the facilitation of Malaysia.

The MILF is expecting the resumption of the stalled peace process after it prepared a new proposal following the deadlock over differences in sub-state issue and the expanded autonomy.

While there were "differences in the appreciation of the proposals and misunderstanding" in the process, both sides, the GPH and MILF with the facilitator behind them, have not shut the door in finding a peaceful, political settlement of the Mindanao Moro problem.

Ghazali Jaafar, MILF vice chair for political affairs, was quoted by a local newspaper as saying that the MILF maintains its original position that “we are for a peaceful and political solution to the Bangsamoro problem in Mindanao.”

"We believe in the sincerity of the Aquino government and we remain hopeful," Jaafar said.

In her visit to Cotabato City, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Deles, said President Aquino’s directive remained and being pursued.

“The President wanted a peace deal with the MILF that is acceptable to all stakeholders in southern Philippines and that he is hoping it will come within his term,” Deles told a group of journalist in a brief interview.

Jaafar said once the formal talks resume, the MILF is expecting that the main agenda would be the new proposal and that the case of Ameril Umra Kato, former MILF field commander, expelled by the MILF for disobedience and forming his own group.

Jaafar said the MILF central committee has forwarded a resolution to the Malaysian facilitator on its action against Kato and his group.

Earlier, the GPH peace panel expressed concerned over Kato’s case but still it considered the issue with him as internal to the MILF.

But Jaafar quickly said the MILF resolution on Kato must not be interpreted as a “passport” for security forces to hunt down the renegade rebel leader.

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