Opinion Editorials, May 2008
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Suara Bangsamoro condemns the bombing of a Moro National Liberation Front camp in Sulu
By Amirah Ali Lidasan
Suara Bangsamoro condemns the bombing
of a Moro National Liberation Front camp in Sulu by elements of the
Philippine Marines and refutes military claims that the operation
overran Abu Sayyaf and Jeemayat Islamiya camps.
Several local civil society groups
based in Sulu have been sending text messages that since 1:00 AM of
April 30, there were 28 rounds of 105 howitzer bombs unleashed by
the Philippine Marines and Task Force Comet under Brig. Gen. Juancho
Sabban against the main camp of
MNLF Sulu State Revolutionary Council Chairman Khaid Adjibun
in Bgy. Cagay, Indanan, Sulu.
It is reported as of this writing that
more than a hundred have already evacuated to safer grounds, and
there were ten families that evacuated to Jolo, Sulu’s town proper.
According to Suara Bangsamoro, the
bombing offensive is a sign of the government’s insincerity in
dealing with the MNLF. That while all the MNLF leaders and members
are celebrating the recent release of Prof. Nur Misuari in Manila,
MNLF’s main camp in Sulu are being bombed and their residents are
being flushed out.
The MNLF believes that the recent
release of MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari is step towards the progress of
the Government of the Republic of the Philippines-Moro National
Liberation Front-Organization of Islamic Conference tripartite
negotiation that is reviewing the implementation of the 1996 Final
Peace Agreement.
Suara Bangsamoro also lambasts Brig.
Gen. Juancho Sabban’s statement implicating the MNLF by saying that
they were supporting the ASG and the JI in Indanan.
Suara Bangsamoro
hopes that the bombing incident will be discussed in the coming
tripartite meeting that will be held on the last week of May this
year.
The MNLF leaders should be given a
chance to condemn the recent and past bombings and military
offensives conducted in MNLF camps in Sulu that hide under the
pretext of pursuing Abu Sayyaf fighters.
Amirah Ali
Lidasan
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