Useless peace talks
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Government peace talks with both the communists and the Muslim insurgents aren’t going anywhere, that’s for sure.
The commies may say that they want peace talks, but usually, they want that because within a certain period, their chieftains abroad (whose orders are not being followed anyway by the local commie chiefs) and some local chiefs are given the usual safe conduct passes that are advantageous to them. Give it a little more time and these peace talks with the commies will collapse again because there won’t likely be a middle ground. Besides, the commies are enjoying the best of both worlds today. They are into armed struggle as well as parliamentary struggle, albeit through the congressional back door, known as the party-list system.
In the case of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and its peace talks with the Philippine government, these too, won’t amount to anything — not even to the point of Noynoy giving them full rein over the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), because if Noynoy and his peace panel do this, it is certain to produce yet another foe, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), with whom the Philippine government had already inked a peace pact, which is still being breached by the government — the reason it can’t get anywhere with the Organization of Islamic Council (OIC).
It will be recalled that when the Ramos government forged a peace pact with the MNLF, a breakaway group surfaced, which became known as the MILF. The MILF cut off from the MNLF because it said that autonomy went against the independent Islamic state grain..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110207com2.html
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