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IDPs hit new Army Special Forces outpost in Basilan town
April 6, 2012 – Hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs)
had been raising complaints on the putting up of a detachment by the
Philippine Army Special Forces adjacent to a school in Barangay Baiwas,
Sumisip, Basilan recently.
Reports from the area said hundreds of men of the Philippine Army
Special Forces had been seen deployed in the new detachment with several
military vehicles and armor assets.
“The Special Forces had been deployed there for a month now, more or
less, in connection with ongoing pursuit operations against the Abu
Sayyaf Group (ASG),” the report said.
“This operation has been continuing for the past months but this that they put up an outpost or detachment,” it said.
But with the recent establishment of the detachment, the IPs had been
refusing calls for them to return back to the respective communities of
origin.
“Everyone is being seen indiscriminately as members of the ASG,”
said, adding that information said the Special Forces have no intention
so far to remove the outpost.
IDPs also hit the putting up of this detachment near Baiwas
Elementary School, saying it was totally improper and infringement of
human rights law.
“These Moro civilians are afraid of military presence due to various
human rights violations committed by the military in Basilan such as
arbitrary arrests, killings and torture indiscriminately and with
impunity, including against innocent civilians who were baselessly
accused as members of ASG.”
The MILF CCCH, when sought for comment, said “there was no
coordination made on any establishment of a detachment by the Special
Forces in Baiwas.”
“Certainly, this action is devoid of respect to the primacy of the
peace process and the ceasefire accord between the government and MILF,
and international humanitarian laws. Certainly, the complaints and
concerns of the IDPs must be considered foremost,” the MILF CCCH said.
MILF doubts peace deal under present administration
March 31, 2012 – “We are very doubtful now whether we can sign a peace deal with government under this present administration.”
That was the statement of Ghazali Jaafar, Vice Chairman for Political
Affairs of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), when interviewed
after a meeting of the top officials of the Political Committees of MILF
from all over Mindanao.
More than 200 MILF political officers from all over Mindanao convened
for an assessment meeting with the Vice Chairman and the MILF Peace
Negotiating Panel few days ago in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.
“The assessment of the political officers under our Office was the
recently concluded peace talks between the Government of the Philippines
(GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Malaysia last
March 19 to 21 (2012) was very disappointing,” Jaafar said.
“What the government peace panel headed by Marvic Leonen did in the
last talks was never our immediate expectation which is the reason why
we are very much disappointed.”
He said the MILF, of course, was not expecting that there will be
signing of a comprehensive peace compact with the government during the
last meeting but at least there be a significant breakthrough that can
strongly move forward the negotiations.
Recalling that the government and Leonen had been blunt in saying to
the world their expectation of a peace deal signed with MILF in the
first quarter of 2012.
On the contrary, Leonen in his Opening Statement during the last
talks forthrightly stated the peace talk is nearing to a stalemate.
Surprisingly or not, that was a 180 degrees spin from the government
shallow propaganda of a negotiated peace compact with MILF in the first
quarter. “Now the world can see clearly what was mere propaganda and the
truthful stand of the government on the peace negotiations.”
Leonen’s statement of a stalemate in the offing was not properly advised for purposes of bluff and whatsoever, Jaafar said.
He said the MILF political officers took that statement as if giving
an ultimatum to the MILF, but the response was “MILF is never moved by
bluff.”
As revolutionaries, Jaafar said “negotiation is much harder of a task
than fighting. Our business is fighting. The Bangsamoro people and our
forebears had been fighting injustices and oppression for nearly five
centuries now since the time of Spanish colonialism in defense of
homeland, identity, freedom, and self-rule.”
Jaafar pointed out, without details, during the last talks, instead
of moving forward the government peace panel was moving on reversal on
agreed principles and substantial agenda, a clear indication of the
insincerity and diminishing commitment to the peace talks of the
government.
Since the assumption of President Noy Aquino in 2010, the MILF and
the Bangsamoro people was upbeat in optimism for a comprehensive peace
deal with the government banking on the fact that he is the son of late
Senator Ninoy Aquino and President Corazon Aquino.
“There is really a problem now with the government policy. The MILF
just can’t tell with certainty whether it is with the Office of the
Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) and/or Government
Peace Negotiating Panel headed by Dean Leonen, or in other departments
of the government,” he said.
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