Posts tagged Ancestral Domain
Leave the peace process to Filipinos
Apr 2nd
I warn the government against the over-internationalization of the Mindanao peace talks. The age-old conflict must be resolved primarily by Filipino themselves.
I add my voice to the growing opposition against the plan of Malacanang to organize a group of internationally-known personalities to serve as advisers in the peace talks with Muslim secessionist rebels in Mindanao.
As a member of the peace process advisory committee during the administration of then President Fidel Ramos, I agree with the observation of Muslim lawyer and educator Adel Tamano that bringing prominent people such as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former United Nations (UN) Secretary More >
Her agenda in the ancestral domain agreement
Mar 20th
I have not come across an agreement where the violations of the Constitution are so brazen and reckless as what I have seen in the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) between the Government (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). In fact, the “Terms of Reference” and the entire MOA-AD cite numerous agreements, laws and international conventions, but omit any reference to the Philippine Constitution.
The MOA-AD contains the terms and conditions agreed upon by the GRP and the MILF on Ancestral Domain, or the Muslims’ historical claim over the Southern Philippines as their homeland, which was one More >
Unwarranted intervention
Mar 20th
I deplored the “internationalization” of the Mindanao peace process. The “unwarranted intervention” of certain foreign countries was making it more difficult for the national government to resolve its “internal problem” with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
I had been receiving persistent reports that the intervention of some countries, including Malaysia and the United States, was putting “undue pressure” on government negotiators to grant concessions to the MILF that clearly violate the Philippine Constitution, such as the giving away of certain territories of the republic. We certainly do not want to happen to Mindanao what happened to Kosovo.
I am alarmed by the More >
Bar signing of MILF agreement
Aug 11th
I, together with Adel Tamano, petitioned the Supreme Court to bar permanently the Philippine panel from entering into an agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), because the proposed pact was in gross violation of the 1987 Constitution.
In the “Petition-in-Intervention,” we filed on August 11, 2009, we asked the High Tribunal to render a decision prohibiting and permanently enjoining the Respondents from further signing, executing, entering into, proceeding or implementing the terms of the MOA or any other agreement with terms similar to the MOA.
Our petition was also in support of an earlier petition filed by North Cotabato Gov. More >
