Magkaubusan ng lahi?

October 27, 2008

Commander Bravo is seething and lying through his teeth as he justifies his attacks on remote barangays in Kauswagan and Kolambugan in Lanao del Norte. He wants to impress us that he is merely protecting the Moro people and their homeland when the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain was restrained by the Supreme Court.

His memory obviously failed him and worse, his justification of the assaults done in the remote towns in Lanao del Norte has no place in a civilized society, Islam or Christianity. Like Umbra Kato who occupied villages in Aleosan and Pikit, Kumander Bravo swooped into unsuspecting communities shooting unarmed civilians on sight. These two trigger-happy commanders attempted to occupy territories listed in the MOA-AD soon after they heard that the documents were initialed. It is not true that they made the assault after the High Court issued the TRO. They did it to pre-empt the other processes which should have followed after the formal signing of the MOA. Of course that is now water under the bridge as the Supreme Court had ruled that the MOA is unconstitutional.

In his rare appearance courtesy of ABS-CBN, Commander Bravo bared his true nature and what are precisely his personal motivations concerning the resolution of the Mindanao conflict. His utterances on TV revealed his aversion against peace negotiation. As far as he is concerned, the entire island of Mindanao belongs to the Moro people and that it is not negotiable.

“Amin and Mindanao ”, he says, and that remains to be the objective even to the extent of “magkaubusan tayo ng lahi”. And Bravo dared President Arroyo and all his military generals that.

With brave and daring talks like that, what good indeed is the MOA on Ancestral Domain? With Bravo and Kato still on the loose we will see more troubles ahead in addition to the economic meltdown that is already knocking on doors. The consolation here is that the overwhelming majority of the Moro people do not subscribe to the agenda of these rogues commanders of the MILF and like many of us we just want to move on with our lives in an atmosphere of peace, reconciliation and unity.

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