BCJP to Gov’t.; “You should Have a Clear Agenda in talking with MILF”

Lake Sebu, South Cotabato - THE Bangsamoro Center for Justpeace Inc. (BCJP) today calls the government to have a clear agenda for GRP-MILF Peace Process."
BCJP Executive Director Abdulbasit R. Benito said “We want the government to treat the Mindanao conflict seriously with best intentions and sincerity; we are dismay with the recent fate of the peace talks last January 27, 2010 in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia when the government peace panel offers the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) which is unacceptable to the MILF, MNLF and to the Bangsamoro people in general.
Offering ARMM to the MILF over and over again, this to me is a manifestation of insincerity and lack of seriousness on the part of the government, after more than ten years of negotiations with so much time, energy, resources and efforts; the government did not value the interim agreements and consensus points of both panels, after all, it is the ARMM the government can afford to offer, Benito said.
He said “Our people are suffered a lot, the IDPs still languishing in the evacuation centers with their children cannot attend school, our olds and child died without seeing the doctors, and we want this hardship to end.
Benito stressed out why the government is so responsive with Cotabato vice Governor Manny Pinol and his cohorts, “when Pinol opposed the signing of Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA AD) last August 2008 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, the Supreme Court response so quickly by issuing a Temporary Restraining Order, subsequently, the MO AD declared unconstitutional by the Chief Justice Reynato Puno”.
Manny Pinol even threatened the public to have war in Mindanao should the MOA AD be signed. The AFP have launched an unjust war and missive offensive against the MILF guerillas resulted to the massive displacement of our peoples, rampant violations of human rights, our impoverished situations deteriorates.
With this, Benito said, we reiterate our calls to the government to demonstrate political will to resolve the problem once and for all, it can be attain if the government will have a coherent and cohesive peace agenda with the MILF. We are also calling vice governor Manny Pinol to show mercy to the people specially to the women, children and the olds who are greatly affected by unrelenting armed conflict every time he block the peace talks between the government and the MILF.