Peace talks doomed from start — JPE
By Angie M. Rosales, Mario J. Mallari and Gerry Baldo 08/25/2011Peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have been doomed from the start, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said yesterday, pointing out the constitutional issues hampering the demands made by the separatist group.
“I expected that it (peace talks) will bog down, and I expect that it will always bog down. I never had any doubt that it will bog down. How can you negotiate something when in effect it will violate your Constitution? All of us, we do not want our Constitution to be violated,” he said.
The Senate chief pointed out that nowhere in the provisons of the Constitution does it call for the creation of a sub-state in the southern region of the country.
Enrile noted that reports on the demands made by the MILF, to establish a sub-state in Muslim Mindanao,
separate from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), is similar to dismembering the country..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110825hed1.html
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