Murad to Congress: give importance to peace

Murad to Congress: give importance to peace, pass the BBL(the Bangsamoro Basic Law)

Murad told a press conference on Sunday afternoon after unveiling a peace marker inside 

the camp with Man Hee Lee, chairman of the South Korea-based Heavenly Culture, 

World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL), that what is at stake is the fate 

“not just of one politician but the entire Bangsamoro and the entire Filipino nation.”

CAMP DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 24 January) – The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has appealed to Congress to give importance to peace by passing the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) because it is “very important, more important than the election.”

MILF chairman Al Hadj Murad Ebrahim narrates
some of the atrocities committed against
the Bangsamoro people like the Jabiddah
and Manili massacres during the peace summit
at Camp Darapanan on Sunday (24 January 2016).
Ebrahim reminds participants to call
for justice to attain peace.
MindaNews  photo by Toto Lozano

Murad told a press conference on Sunday afternoon after unveiling a peace marker inside the camp with Man Hee Lee, chairman of the South Korea-based Heavenly Culture, World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL), that what is at stake is the fate “not just of one politician but the entire Bangsamoro and the entire Filipino nation.”

In Manila, also on Sunday, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos-Deles said passing the BBL will not only improve the fate of the Bangsamoro region but also change the discourse on Mindanao as it will signal the closing of the armed conflict with the largest Moro rebel group in the country.

“What we need to see at this point in time is the big picture. The farsightedness… because, in reality, this law is not only for the present but it will also affect the future of the Bangsamoro,” the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) press release quoted her as saying.

Deles said the passage of the BBL should not be passed on to the next administration but “rests on the incumbent political leaders we have today.”

“We will keep on pushing and not give up hope on this,” she said.

She acknowledged that “it’s a very tight window but those who know the legislative process said that it is still possible.”

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