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August 21, 2008
Sultan Macasalong Sarip
Chairperson
Suara Bangsamoro-Northern Mindanao Region
E-mail: suara_nmr@yahoo.com
We hold Mrs. Arroyo accountable for fouling up the peace process,
handing over catastrophe to Lanao del Norte and arousing anti-Moro
hysteria
Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a grand hazard to peace in the Moroland.
For messing up with the peace process and making a hash of the
Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domains (MOA-AD) for her own power
programme, she has instigated a series of armed offensives from the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front, and handed over deadly pandemonium to the Moro
and non-Moro populace of Lanao del Norte.
While we denounce in the strongest manner the terroristic actions that
took place in this part of the country these past few days that claimed
lives of innocent civilians, we urge concerned agencies to do
fact-finding missions and unearth the truth behind these chaos. We
express doubts with the government’s monopoly of airwaves and non-stop
blaming of the atrocities committed by the MILF, while the latter is
insisting that they did are not behind the bombings in Iligan and the
killing of the civilians in Lanao del Norte. We fear that interest
groups who will benefit from this war situation have a hand to this
violence. And surely, Mrs. Arroyo as a patron of anti-Moro hysteria
since 2001 earns ground for her another round of all-out war against the
Bangsamoro.
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We condemn Mrs. Arroyo and
Malacanang’s war propaganda and combative
stance. We warn the US-Arroyo regime not to exploit this situation of
unpeace to justify militarization, and the eventual entry of US troops
which, time and again, were driven out by the people of Lanao.
We are tired of endless wars, the bombing of our farmlands, terrorizing
of our communities and the destroying of our mosques in the name of the
“war-on-terror.” Let us remember that the huge bulk of Maranaos who
joined the call for the ouster of Joseph Estrada because of his all-out
war policy in 1999-2000 contributed much to his political demise. Lest
Arroyo forget to realize the lessons learned the tragic way by Joseph
Estrada (who now suffers historical amnesia), she would surely suffer
the same ugly fate.
In the face of Mrs. Arroyo’s insincerity to the peace process, we enjoin
the Bangsamoro to continuously assert its legitimate struggle for the
right to self-determination. Genuine freedom is unachievable in talking
to a fake, puppet, corrupt and fascist regime who owns an Olympic record
of using the Moro people, especially the Maranaos, to make possible her
everlasting reign. ###
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