Inviting Nur Misuari to Hearings of Bangsamoro Basic Laws is Like Inviting Disaster
Posted on Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Inviting
Nur Misuari to Hearings of
Bangsamoro
Basic Law is Like Inviting Disaster
By Apolinario Villalobos
Representative Bongbong Marcos wants Nur
Misuari to be invited to the hearings on the Bangsamoro Basic Law. He is saying
that Misuari should be heard, because the reason why there was a Zamboanga
“uprising” was because Misuari alleged that MNLF was left out during the
drafting of the proposal. Has Representative Marcos forgot that Misuari does
not represent the MNLF as of today? He is representing just a faction of the
MNLF which staged the attack and siege of
Zamboanga City that until now has not recovered yet from the disaster. There
was no uprising in Zamboanga…it was attacked!
Misuari’s action was condemned by the other
factions of the MNLF. In other words, it is wrong to presume that Misuari
represents the MNLF as a whole. During the initial stage of the drafting, he
was invited but he refused to attend because his direction was too radical, far
from what the national government and MILF wanted which is a compromise
acceptable to the concerned Moro, Christian, and Lumad inhabitants of the
affected areas. In case Misuari makes it to the hearings, concerned parties
should expect disaster, because he will just insist on what he wanted ever
since.
Earlier, there was also a “threat” from
Congress that they will give the proposed bill a hard time. And now, here comes
the chairman of the Committee, Representative Bongbong Marcos, asking for the
presence of Misuari whom Filipinos consider as a fugitive from the Law and with
warrant of arrest dangling over his head. The Senate might as well invite the
BIFF, because just like MNLF, for sure, it will never give peace a chance in
Mindanao because they are also being left out.
Will the the Bangsamoro Basic Law proposal
suffer the same fate of the proposals to impeach the President which for show
was approved in form, but later, rejected due to inadequacy of substance, by
the majority of the members of the Committee? Will it be another moro-moro in
the making?
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