 | Dar-el-Mindanao one half-step closer to a formal sharia Paradise... |
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has described the government's new proposal on the issue of territory in their peace negotiations as "good for the eye to see". The MILF Internet website quoted the Front’s chief negotiator, Mohagher Iqbal, as saying that the "right to self-determination" was the “main sweetener” in the latest proposal. Iqbal said this was a turnaround from the government’s objection to the using the phrase in the course of their negotiations that started in 1997. The MILF has always negotiated using the "right to self determination" framework but he said the government refused. He said the MILF proposed to use the words "freedom" and "right to self-determination" in the negotiations for the Tripoli Agreement of 2001, “but the government agreed only on the first”. Iqbal stressed that the MILF was "forward-looking" in negotiating solutions to the "Moro problem" and "Mindanao conflict". He said that the new proposal has to be “examined meticulously" and said that MILF peace panel held a "crucial" meeting Thursday at the panel's office in Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat town, which now belongs to the newly-created province of Sharif Kabungsuan. | I'd also like to note that I check in on the Philippines once a month or so (more if something gets boomed), and they seem to have the largest entrenched "Peace" bureaucracy in the world. They have been 'negotiating' for years, maybe even decades. Actual peace would prolly cause the collapse of their entire catering and limo industry. Sheesh. |
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