HWPL, Man Hee Lee From South Korea, to Join Maguindanao Peace Summit

HWPL, Man Hee Lee 

From South Korea, to Join 

Maguindanao Peace Summit 

 MAGUINDANAO, Philippines - Organizers are expecting South Korean peace activists to join the Maguindanao provincial peace summit in Buluan town on May 25.

Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu, main organizer of the summit meant to show multi-sectoral support to the dra
ft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), said they have invited Man Hee Lee, founder of HWPL from South Korea.

Chairman of HWPL, Man Hee Lee has actively been helping foster religious understanding among Christians, Muslims and other groups.

Summit organizers are also expecting representatives from the Heavenly Culture, World Peace and Restoration of Light, a popular South Korean peace advocacy outfit, to attend the summit in Buluan.

Two officials of the Seoul-based non-government organization, Philippine coordinator Joon Park and its manager, Kim Si Man, had earlier visited Buluan to search for a site where they can construct a “peace monument” in recognition of Mangudadatu’s domestic peace programs and his administration’s extensive support to the Mindanao peace process.

Only Mangudadatu, from among the five provincial governors in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, has openly been campaigning for public support to the draft BBL.

The bill aims to establish a Bangsamoro political entity based on a peace deal between Malacañang and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Mangudadatu said they have also invited Central Mindanao’s ranking Muslim clerics and leaders of Christian sects, including Catholic priests to join the summit.

Lawyer Bobby Katambak, a senior member of the provincial board, said leaders of the MILF have also been invited to the summit, where speakers are to talk about the gains of the Mindanao peace process and the importance of the BBL.

Members of the congressional committee handling the bill had voted in favor of the measure, now for plenary proceedings.

The May 25 provincial peace summit is the 33rd major pro-BBL activity of Mangudadatu’s office since the bill was submitted last year to Congress, via Malacañang, by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission.

The commission, chaired by the MILF’s chief negotiator, Muhaquer Iqbal, is comprised of seven representatives each from the rebel group and the government.

Maguindanao Peace Summit, 

With Chairman Man Hee Lee 

of HWPL, From South Korea News