Calling the Wednesday evening bombings in General Santos, Kidapawan and Cotabato cities “satanic” and “demonic,” the ceasefire committees of both government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) vowed in a joint statement that they will not allow the incidents to disrupt or derail the ongoing peace process.| "No, no, certainly not. The Peace Process (TM) and its free shrimp cocktails and friendly masseuses must continue at all costs. Too bad about all those dead civilians. So very sad, really. Would you be so kind and pass that platter of reduction of whirled peas down this way. Thanks ever so." |
The joint CCCH was in General Santos City for its monthly meeting at the East Asia Royale Hotel here on January 9 and the tripartite meeting with the Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team on January 10. In a statement, the Joint Coordinating Committees on the Cessation of Hostilities (Joint CCCH) of the government and the MILF said the “dastardly and cowardly act” is a “handiwork of barbaric, uncivilized and totally misguided people whose intention is nothing but to inflict serious injuries, destroy lives of innocent people, and perpetrate instability as well as terrorism. This act is a crime committed against humanity and, therefore, deserves the indignation of the entire human race.” The joint CCCH was in General Santos City for its monthly meeting at the East Asia Royale Hotel here on January 9 and the tripartite meeting with the Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team on January 10.“We are totally convinced as well that these bombings can never impose negative effects to the ongoing GRP-MILF peace process. This can never disrupt, neither derail, the smooth-sailing peace overtures being undertaken by the government and the MILF anchored on finding a just and enduring solution to the conflict in Mindanao, that is the good of all its people regardless of race or religion,” it said, adding their assurances to the public “that the resolve of the joint GRP-MILF CCCH to protect the interest of peace and goodwill and gains of the GRP-MILF peace process on the ground became even more unshakeable in the midst of these demonic bombing incidents.”