Bangsamoro Youth Leaders Forum (BMYLF)
Press Statement
August 19, 2008
The Philippine government is once more trying to dupe the Bangsamoro people in its persistent desire to suppress the Moro’s inherent and legitimate right to govern themselves in accordance with the prescriptions of the Holy Qur’an. Still not contented with giving us bogus autonomy named Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which literally further divided not only the Bangsamoro homeland but the Bangsamoro people themselves, the imperial Manila is again granting deceptive concessions in the peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The government has also never showed it can implement agreements it entered into with the Bangsamoro people, like the Final Peace Agreement of 1996 with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
However, with the recent SONA of President Arroyo, worries and frustrations surface all over again for not giving an emphasis on the peace process that the government engages on with the MILF. Further, the situation has been worsened by the issuance of the Supreme Court of the Temporary Restraining Order on MOA-AD instigated by some peace saboteurs and politicians like Cotabato Vice Provincial Governor Emmanuel Pinol, Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat, Congressman Teodoro Locsin, Senator Francis Escudero and United Opposition Spokesperson Adel Tamano, to name a few, who have vested interests in Mindanao and some cabinet officials of the government who have been praying that the peace agreement won’t be realized. Obviously, the government as in the previous dealings with other legitimate revolutionary fronts doesn’t want peace to reign in the Bangsamoro Homeland.
The present scenario only reminisces the agonies and miserable experiences of the Bangsamoro in the hands of the Philippine Government that added insult, injury and even attacked the dignity of the Muslims not only in the Philippines but through out the globe.
With this heartless and deliberate act of some demons disguised as politicians and with the strategies of the Philippine government on how to deceive the Bangsamoro People, the Bangsamoro Youth Leaders Forum (BMYLF), a broadest alliance of Bangsamoro Youth Leaders in Mindanao and in the country is again expressing its doubt on the sincerity of the government to address the problems of the Bangsamoro people.
Therefore, now, more than ever, is the compelling time for all peace-loving citizens of Mindanao especially the Bangsamoro Youth to join hands and become an agent and a catalyst in achieving peace by all means. This is the idea that binds us together in our commitment and desire to have a lasting peace in our own Homeland. Towards this end, we put forward the following commitment and calls:
1. Condemning in the strongest term Vice Gov. Pinol, Mayor Lobregat, Rep. Locsin and other allies of PGMA who are anti-Moro and renown saboteurs of peace. Indeed, these personalities deserve to be thrown out of Bangsamoro Homeland;
2. Appealing to the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision on the MOA-AD and finally lift the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in order for the Peace Process to push through the signing;
3. Reiterating our all-out support to the Moro Revolutionary fronts in the struggle towards the attainment of Freedom and Right to Self Determination of the Bangsamoro People;
4. Reminding the MILF to be vigilant and cautious in dealing with the Philippine government which is an expert in the art of treachery and fraudulence;
5. Reiterating further our call for the Bangsamoro People, MNLF and MILF leadership to unite and to revert to the original objective of struggle, which is “independence” of the Bangsamoro people of Mindanao as an option in order to achieve our aspiration for total peace, justice, development and freedom pursuant to the inalienable right as a people being guaranteed by the Charter of the United Nations;
6. Finally, we appeal to the international Muslim community to help us in pushing the talks forward to attain the kind of peace that we want, not what others want for us.
Irrevocably, the BMYLF shall continue the struggle Fii Sabillah through the end. Whenever and wherever we are needed, there we must be!
Contact Persons:
Rahib Kudto
National President
United Youth for Peace and Development (UNYPAD)
Contact No. 0926-2557608
Ardan D. Sali
Secretary-General
Bangsamoro Youth Assembly (BYA)
Contact No. 0918-2378384
Bobby Benito
Executive Director
Bangsamoro Center for JustPeace (BCJP)
Contact No. 0919-7245492
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- MARTIAL LAW IN RESTROPECT
- UPHOLD PEACE FOR OUR GENERATION – YMPN Official Statement
- A CALL FOR PEACE, SOBRIETY AND RESTRAINT
- MUSLIM SOLON HITS ADMINISTRATION, OPPOSITION ON MOA DISCOURSE
Funny!! Moro Youth advocating for peace but supporting and advocating for all out support to the MILF or their revolutionary organization who is at war with the legitimate government.
Is that what you call “push for peace”. No, simply it is a “push for war?”
Please try not to hide your true intention by saying you re for peace but at the same time all out support for those rogue MILF commanders, then you will justify that they have the right to do so because of the TRO.
Funny!
Now, tell me Moro Youth leaders, who among you are not even member of the MILF? I think most of you are and you are just using your organization to support the revolution by the way you utter and publish your declaration.
Yes, we are in a democratic society but wonder how would it be when you govern on your own? Would you still be allowed to speak for and against your leaders? I doubt t this but of course this is another question that you will find, if and when your desire to be alone materializes.
For peace? Good.
YES WE WILL CONTINUE THE BANGSAMORO STRUGGLE FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION….