AFP uses excessive force against Muslim communities
Another new infantry unit arrived in Maguindanao to augment the already highly beefed-up AFP troops conducting cleansing operations against MILF and aggrieved civilian communities
MORO homeland is Mindanao, Sulu, Palawan
The GRP – MILF Peace Agreement — on Ancestral Domain has the Indios – otherwise known as Filipinos — up in arms against their government. They are aghast that the Government of the Republic of the Philippines ((GRP) has agreed to give a few hundred square kilometers of territory to what would be called the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE).
But the territory mentioned in that agreement is nothing compared to the Bangsa Moro homeland envisioned in the Tripoli Agreement. In the the Tripoli Agreement, the Homeland is composed of 13 (now 14 since Sarangani was made into a new province) provinces; namely: Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte, North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Davao del Sur, Palawan and South Cotabato, which included Sarangani and all the cities in those provinces.
In the Final Peace Agreement signed between the GRP and the MNLF in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1996 states that it constitutes “the full implementation of the 1976 Tripoli Agreement in letter and spirit…”
The MILF – GRP agreement therefore adds nothing to the moro territory. Instead, it greatly reduced it by agreeing to have only the present ARMM and a few more villages.
The Bangsa Moro homeland is based on historical rights. The Sultanate of Maguindanao and Sulu and the Rajaship of Buayan were recognized by foreign powers — the British, Spanish and Dutch empires. Even the US had treaties with the Sultanate of Sulu. The Ranao Confederacy (Pat a Pangampung ku Ranaw) was never conquered by the Spaniards. In fact, Spain’s only claim to Mindanao was the establishment of a few forts peopled with a sprinkling of Spaniards and settlements of Indios from the Visayas.
Spain had absolutely no right to cede Moroland to the Americans in the 1898 Treaty of Paris because it had not conquered Moroland.
America realized that fact so it signed the Bates Treaty with the Sulu Sultanate afterwards.
In 1946, America had no right to include Moroland to the Philippines when it granted the Indios independence.
In a bizarre twist of fate, the unconquered Moroland became the colonies of the former subject peoples of Spain and America, the Indios who now call themselves Filipinos.
With laws such as the “Colonization of Mindanao Act”, the Indios promptly colonized Moroland by sending millions of Indios to grab the lands and resources of the indigenous peoples of Moroland.
The 1968 Jabidah Massacre and the series of massacres that followed in the early 1970s woke the Moro people from a long slumber. And so the Moros rose up as a people in the 1970s.
The Tripoli Agreement, the Jakarta Accord and the MILF-GRP MOA are but mere setbacks in the centuries-long struggle of the Moros for Freedom, Islam and Homeland.
The 911 Hoax
The site http://livevideo.com/socialservice has lots of documents that allege that the 9/11 airplane attacks were a big HOAX played by the US government in cahoots with the US Media
The first photo is from NBC footage while the second is from a CBS footage. The Empire State Building seemed to have MOVED from its place.
The Bangsamoro Struggle for Self-Determination
To read the whole speech, go to http://penpointers.blogspot.com/2006/11/bangsamoro-struggle-for-self.html
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Peace Talk
From the post on this URL:
http://gstoltzfus.blogspot.com/2007/02/bangsa-moro-people.html
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Mindanao – from an Indonesian perspective
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Bangsa Moro Self-Determination
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The Philippine Blog Awards – nominees
It includes a Moro blog: Reflections on the Bangsa Moro
Tri-People Concept in Mindanao?
FROM THE BLOG:
DXUP FM – 105.5 MHz-Upi for Peace – Identity Crisis
The writer “Kaka Ali” wrote:
“In early times, the people of Mindanao Island were divided into groups:
the indigenous peoples who are referred to by Visayan speakers as
“Lumads”, and the “Talainged” or native inhabitants whom the Spaniards
called “Moros”, and the “Rafu” or migrant settlers as the natives
called them”
But this is not precise. In the early times, there were Malays living in Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan. Some were Islamized. They became rulers of political units known as sultanates or rajaships. The non-Muslims were either subjects or vassal or allied datuships. Then came the Spaniards who called the Muslims Moros and the non-Muslim inhabitans naturales. The Moros and naturales of Mindanao, Sulu, Palawan including Borneo and Moluccas fought the Spaniards.
As late as the 1890s, the number of Christianized indios or naturales in Mindanao are so minute. They number less than the foreigners — the Arabs, Indians, Chinese, etc.
The naturales or indios of Luzon and Visayas became abject subjects of the Spanish Crown. They later became Christians and they “colonized” Mindanao and Sulu since the Americans gave them rulership of the Islands during the Philippine Commonwealth.
‘Kaka Ali” further wrote:
Tri-People Concept?
The concept of tri-people in depicting the
peoples of Mindanao — Christians, Muslims, and Lumads — is a dilemma
and a question of identity crisis.The term Christian refers to those people who adhere to Christianity;
Muslim to those whose religion is Islam, while
Lumad (or sometimes Highlanders, but some dis-agree) refers to the 23 ethno-linguistic tribes no matter what their religion is.
Presently, some of the indigenous tribes have embraced Islam, while others have accepted Christianity.
Similarly,
some of the settlers have accepted Islam as their religion and likewise
a few from the 13 Islamized ethno-linguistic tribes converted to
Christianity.Now, the dilemma?
Now the dilemma or crisis in identity. Why it is dilemma?
For example,* What’s the identity of a certain native inhabitant [ for example a, T’duray] who is a Roman Catholic or Episcopalian?
* He/she is called, Highlander?, Lumad? or Christian?
* On the other hand, if he accepts Islam as his religion, should he/she be called Highlander? Lumad? or Muslim?
But this is a false dilemma (tri-lemma?). The indigenous peoples of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan simply do not include the Christianized naturales. The Spaniards failed in their attempts to Christianize natives of MINSUPALA. They brought along with them the converted naturales or indios from Luzon and Visayas to settle in their forts in the Moro regions.
The Yakans and Badjaos are mostly non-Muslims but everyone classify them as Moros. There are many Manobos and Tagakaolos who are either Muslims and Christians. And now, there are so many Christians all over the country who converted to Islam. But they cannot possibly be called Moros. Gov. Leviste and General Dolorfino, for example, may be Muslims but they certainly are NOT Moros.
And who are the Highlanders? Lanao del Sur is an elevated area and properly speaking, the Maranaos are highlanders.
This Tri-People concept is just another “divide-and-conquer” strategy of the Westernized Filipinos. It is the same as what the Anglo-Americans did in Iraq where they divided the people into Shias, Sunnis and Kurds. But the Kurds are also Sunnis. And the Kurds dislike the Sunni Saddam Hussein and his followers. And a majority of the Sunnis are also against the Sunni followers of Saddam. And so on and so forth. This is also the case in Lebanon where the West divided the people into Sunnis, Shias and Christians.
The term LUMAD is an invention of Univ. of the Phil. professors. The term is Visayan and alien to the non-Muslim indigenous peoples of MINSUPALA.
It is important to note that being Christian and Muslim are a matter of faith. Being Moro and indigenous are a matter of culture, history and geography.
“Kaka Ali” then wrote:
In the case of Upi and neighboring municipalities, including Cotabato
City, the T’duray [Highlanders] and R’nawon [T'duray’s word for the
people of the lowland, e.g. Iranun, Maguindanawon, etc.] share a common
ancestry. Tabunaway and Mamalo were brothers by blood, the former as
the forefather of R’naon who accepted Islam, the latter of the T’duray
who chose to remain as it is.
Indeed, the Marananos, Iranuns, Maguindanaos and Tirurays share common ancestors — be they mythical or real. This is clear proof that they are ONE people – the True Indigenous inhabitants of Mindanao.
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