Mindanao – from an Indonesian perspective

This is from an Indonesian blog. Moros are Malays and we have so much in common with Indonesians and Malaysians — historical experience, culture, religion, and language. Before and during the Spanish colonial era, the court language in Moro sultanates was Malay (Bahasa).

clipped from sriandalas.multiply.com MINDANAU….. LOOK AT HIS FACE… � AND HERS TOO… � DON’T THEY JUST LOOK LIKE ANYONE NEXT TO US? LOOK AT THEIR WARDROBE… I WAS JUST ABOUT MISTAKENLY THINKING THAT THEY MUST’VE BEEN COMING FROM MAKASSAR, SULAWESI OR KALIMANTAN OR SUMATRA…. SOMEWHERE THIS COUNTRY IT TURNS OUT THAT THEY ARE MALAYS OF THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES THE LAND CALLED MINDANAO PLACES LIKE TAWI-TAWI, SULU, BASILAN, MARAWI, COTABATO, SULTAN KUDARAT, LANAO JOLO, PALAWAN, MAGUINDANAO, AGUSAN � BANGSA MORO…. FORGET THEM NOT FOR THEY JUST NOW BLEED THEY SHALL OVERCOME WITH ALLAH’S HELP HELP BANGSA MORO GAIN SOVEREIGNITY OVER THEIR OWN LAND LINKS TO BANGSAMORO ON THE WEB: BANGSAMORO (bangsamoro.net) MARANAO (PUAK MINDANAO) (maranao.com) MINDANAO’S REGIONS & PROVINCES (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mindanao) AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/autonomous_region_in_muslim_mindanao) Prev: Bagaimana dengan yang ini? Next: HARI JADI RIAU TAHUN INI…BATIK MELAYU, KUE KEMOJO, PACU JALUR

Bangsa Moro Self-Determination

Quite a coherent essay. For the full text, go to http://www.freewebs.com/bangsamoronline/myblog.htm?blogentryid=1327925

clipped from www.freewebs.com Bangsamoro Indenpedence Saturday, Mar 17, 2007 Bangsamoro Independence or Interdependence?� The Referendum Proposal for a Just and Lasting Peace in Mindanao By Shauna Morgan University of Toronto (B.A.) ����������� In April of 2002, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) published a book of speeches and interviews with Chairman Salamat Hashim under the title: REFERENDUM: Peaceful, Civilized, Diplomatic and Democratic Means of Solving the Mindanao Conflict.� This new “democratic” MILF platform is a telling indication of the current political climate in the war-torn southern Philippines.� Both the Philippine government and the rebel groups are obliged to compete over broad popular approval among Muslim, Christian and indigenous citizens, as well as over international legitimacy among Islamic and Western nations alike.�

The Lebanon-Israeli war through the eyes of CNN and BBC

From the CMFR (Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility blog
For the full story, go to http://www.cmfr.com.ph/pjr_reports/sept_2006/sept2006abbas.html

clipped from www.cmfr.com.ph Review The Lebanon-Israeli war through the eyes of CNN and BBC Demonizing the ‘Enemy’ Jamal Ashley Abbas IN MANY ways, the just-concluded Israel-Lebanon war was unique. It was the first war directly covered by different TV networks on the ground. While the combatants—the Israeli armed forces and the Lebanese resistance corps, Hezbollah—imposed restrictions, international journalists had access to the bombed sites, the affected civilians, and all sectors of local society. The opportunity to give more first-hand, in-depth information to the viewers was greater than ever. Because of the advances in communications technology—cell phones, digital cameras, internet, blogging, etc.—the issue for the protagonists was not how to control or refuse access, but more on how to manage information in order to mold public opinion.