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PRESS RELEASE Ramon Magsaysay Jr. wants a long term solution to the problem of Mindanao. The former senator said this will be his priority once the Filipino electorate returns him to the Senate. Looking beyond the aftermath of the Sulu Sultanate’s claim to Sabah, Magsaysay said the Muslim insurgency in Sulu, Basilan and other parts of Mindanao is deeply rooted in the prevailing poverty of Read More …
PRESS RELEASE February 27, 2013 “Desperate times call for desperate measures” — Jun Magsaysay Liberal Party (LP) senatorial candidate Ramon “Jun” Magsaysay Jr. today called on concerned government officials to take drastic action and respond to the needs of the starving victims of Typhoon Pablo in Davao to prevent the situation from turning into a humanitarian disaster. “It was a deplorable incident indeed, seeing our Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz The historic signing of the “Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro” was accomplished on October 15, 2012 at the Malacañang Palace. It was not the final peace accord that the parties wished for but it was a good start considering what everybody involved in the process had gone through. The Framework Agreement would lead to the creation of a “new autonomous political Read More …
ON DISTANT SHORE By Val G. Abelgas There’s definitely more than meets the eye in the sudden interest of the Aquino administration in forging a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front at the height of the escalating dispute between the Philippines and China over the Scarborough Shoals in the West Philippine Sea. Manila Standard’s Jojo Robles was on the right track in raising Read More …
Surveil By Amina Rasul BusinessWorld I find it insane that macho men and women, whose boots have yet to be muddied (much less bloodied), are thumping war drums. Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Why do the hawks, especially those in government, believe that a strong military approach will resolve the age-old armed struggle Read More …
Corporate Watch By Amelia H.C. Ylagan BusinessWorld A woman’s drawn-out wail cut the tentative silence after the raspy breathing of the wounded young soldier suddenly just stopped. Outside the makeshift nipa hospital hut, the rustling leaves on the trees beyond poised in suspended animation as the wind held its breath to give reverence to the life gone away so quickly and so harshly — and Read More …
By Rey T. Salita Manila Standard Today Senators Panfilo Lacson and Jinggoy Estrada say 40 years of negotiations with the rebels have acomplished nothing. Soldiers keep dying. SENATORS Panfilo Lacson and Jinggoy Estrada on Friday called for an all-out war on the Muslim rebels, saying 40 years of negotiations with the separatists had achieved nothing while government soldiers continued to die in Mindanao. They made Read More …
Commentary By Adolfo Paglinawan This is a sensitive topic for me because i was part of the 1986 peace negotiations with Bangsa Moro, where ambassador emmanuel pelaez earned a cessation of hostilities that is holding up this today. all violent incidents that have happened since have been responded to with police action. the last idiot who almost tripped the line of the cessation of hostilities Read More …
By Nestor Mata Malaya ‘Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) threatens to go back to armed struggle and Balkanize Mindanao, if it fails to get what it wants – its Utopian dream of a Bangsamoro state.’ NO ONE else can be faulted for the impending collapse of the peace talks to end the decades-old bloody Mindanao conflict other than President Aquino himself. First of all, Aquino Read More …
By Nestor Mata Malaya ‘Philippine government and MILF panels have started peace talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to hammer out a valid formula to end the decades-old conflict in Mindanao.’ PEACE, to end the decades-old conflicts in Mindanao, has many faces. Filipinos, be they Christians or Muslims, want peace in that strife-torn region. They voiced this hope in a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey Read More …