Quote for the Week..

"Why are the country’s political leaders quick to act on amending the Constitution to change nationalistic provisions for the benefit of foreigners or to extend their terms of office but are allergic to amending the Constitution to address the people’s aspirations for self-determination?" - Marvic Leonen,Dean of the UP College of Law, in a keynote address delivered at the 1st International Solidarity Conference on Mindanao; March 16-18, 2009 in Davao City, Philippines.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

MILF Peace Panel grace peace forum

COTABATO CITY. Two members of the MILF Peace Panel and two members of its Technical Committee were invited to a peace forum in Cotabato City today to give updates of the GRP-MILF Peace Talks that is on the “verge of total collapse” as a result of the government decision to abandon the consensus points on ancestral domain that were jointly “crafted, agreed, and signed”. For more than three years they opened up talk on the subject.




Mohagher Iqbal, chairperson of the MILF Peace Panel, was the main speaker, and he was ably assisted by Atty. Datu Michael Mastura, who also inputted important materials related to the 10-year old talks.

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