Misuari dismisses OIC peace moves

The leader of what used to be the biggest Muslim separatist group operating mainly in southern Philippines has brushed off efforts by the world’s largest Islamic bloc for reconciliation with a rival secessionist organization with whom Manila recently signed a peace agreement.

Nur Misuari, chairman of the now seemingly marginalized Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), instead insisted that President Benigno Aquino 3rd cast aside the peace pact with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)—Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB)—in favor of the one signed in 1996 between the MNLF and the administration of then-President Fidel Ramos.