Recently, there has been another turmoil brewing in the south of the philippines particularly in the Sulu and Basilan region. Many of our soldiers died in the ambush orchestrated by the run away group of MILF. Bodies have been mutilated and disrespected by decapitating and even going to the extreme of cutting the male portion of the corpse. Philippine Army have mourned over the lost of their comrade and so too will the fate of these terrorist! I do not generalize the Muslim as a whole but there are really extremist like the one reported clamoring for the teaming up of all Muslim to take over the Philippines and make it as an Islamic State. I've had friends who are Muslims but they do not act the same way, its a shame that because of these guys that the muslim are being branded as terrorists.
One thing that is baffling my mind is that aren't the Philippine Government having a peace talk/agreement with the MILF forces? There have been talks to prevent the bloodshed but still there are a lot of terrorist attack claims coming from the side of the MILF, coming from run-away group of MILF. Is the MILF hiding their primary tactics saying that these horrible act were acts by extremist in their group who are not willing to negotiate but in fact the MILF is the one who ordered it? If so, is the government wasting its time and effort on negotiating and trying to win them back to return to the government? One thing that i liked about the previous administration is its all out war policy with the terrorist groups in the south. I mean, government should not be the one begging for mercy and trying to win people back. Government should be stern in irradicating these pests that threatens the peace and order that the people wants to enjoy.
If the government should persue these negotiations with regards to this group, i think a provision that should be included in the agreement is that MILF should be the to castigate or reprimand their own people. if not done, their whole group will be subject to reprimand as well. I mean, this is to assure that they are not really the one who puppets these break-away groups. Also, they should be the one in front of the battlefield again for the reasons of assurance as said above.
"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice." -Corazon Aquino
posted by JP @ 11:53 PM
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