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Newly installed MNLF Chairman Alonto supports GPH-MILF Peace Agreement
Abul
Khayr Alonto, one of the original Top 90 Freedom Fighters who was
recently installed as Chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front
(MNLF) replacing Nur Misuari expressed his strong support to the peace
process and the peace agreement inked between the GPH and the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Alonto, speaking on a government owned television network last month also said his group is all-out in supporting the peace process and urged the Philippine Congress to approve the new political entity called Bangsamoro which shall replace the current Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) branded by President Benigno C. Aquino III as a “failed experiment”.
He said that the Moro people should unite and set their house in order but how can they set their house in order when the very key to their own hands is not in their own hands. And the sad part is that the people who want to govern them do not even speak the language that the people to be governed speak. Ito na po ang key and I believe the taught by my grandfather was saying that the key is not in their hands, the key now is the framework basic law that we look forward to that will be approved by Congress or through Constitutional amendment, please do so, let’s do it so that we can unite and spare the future generation of a war of aggression”.
“I will look forward that when the establishment of this government we can have a full fiscal autonomy we can budget what we need, all these revenues coming from our resources just to catch up with the nation must be used for a free education, free health and free shelter para po ang inyong kawawang samba-yanang Moro sa timogan Pilipinas ay magkaroon ng pagkakataon to set their house in order and establish a place in the sun for their children and children to be,” he added.
But in the light of this development majority of the MNLF is still loyal to Misuari who is wanted by authorities for masterminding the September 2013 Zamboanga siege that killed and wounded 400 people mostly MNLF combatants and displaced 130,000 innocent civilians. Misuari was deposed in 2000 by his senior officials headed by his Foreign Affairs chief Parouk Hussein. Hussien along with former Cotabato City mayor, then city vice mayor Muslimen Sema and other top ranking MNLF leader made up the so-called Council of 15.
But Hussein was also deposed several years later after the Council of 15, disgruntled at his leadership, restored Misuari as head of the MNLF in 2007.
For lack of trust and confidence, Sema and his group again ousted Misuari in 2008. Misuari was appointed as MNLF Chairman emeritus to appease him but declined the post.
As of posting, Sema has not issued any public statement about Alonto’s declaration. With Alonto assuming the chairmanship of the MNLF the Moro Front breaks into three, the Alonto Faction, the Sema faction and the little known Islamic Command Council headed by Habib Mujahab Hashim.
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