Useless peace talks FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/22/2010

Useless peace talks

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/22/2010 All this talk about achieving peace in Mindanao through a peace accord that may even entail a constitutional change is certainly not going to end up in peace and it is best to drop all the pretence of government trying to forge an agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). I really cannot see any justification in a nation changing its Constitution to simply give what the Moro rebels want — and what they want is to establish an independent Islamic state in Mindanao, which incidentally is what the US government, as well as the European Union members and even Malaysia, along with the Islamic world, want, since natural resources can be had by these foreign devils, as they want them, without any interference from the Philippine government and the judiciary. So why would any Filipino — outside of these Moro rebels — want to cut up the Republic and give away, if not the whole of Mindanao, then the bulk of Mindanao and even Palawan, to the MILF, to achieve peace in that region? But the government peace negotiator now claims that the MILF has dropped the idea of a peace pact along the unconstitutional Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain lines, saying that what is on offer is an expanded autonomy. But if such were the offer, what need then is there for a constitutional change?.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100822com2.html

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