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Sunday, May 25, 2008 |
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SPECIAL REPORT: MINDANAO PEACE PROCESS |
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GMA launches ‘localized peace agreements’
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Dureza helps midwife MNLF reunification in Libya;
MILF unfazed by General Esperon’s appointment as peace chief
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PROFOUND changes have been happening to the
Mindanao peace process these past months, the latest of which is
President Gloria Arroyo’s almost unheralded launching of a new
policy to “localize peace agreements.”
Did this policy change come about as a result of
the incessant claim of Muslim Filipinos—including the moderate and
loyal-to-the-Republic Filipino Muslims of the Philippine Council for
Islam and Democracy —that the 1996 “Final Peace Agreement”
between the Philippine Government and the Moro National Liberation
Front has not been carried out faithfully by the government?
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Misuari restoration as MNLF
head cements RP-Libya ties
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Nur Misuari, the founder of the Moro National
Liberation Front and “Maas” (old wise man) to many Filipino
Muslims of the Bangsamoro movement, has been restored to his
preeminent place in the MNLF.
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Fear of Esperon is dominant feeling among Muslim
Filipinos butthey could be very wrong
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PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo’s appointment of
former Armed Forces Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon Jr., as her
new adviser for the peace process got mixed reactions.
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Mindanao military chiefs declare support
for Esperon as Dureza’s replacement
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Military commanders in Mindanao vowed to support
the new government peace adviser, Hermogenes Esperon, former chief
of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, who on June 16 takes over
the job of Secretary Jesus Dureza.
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GEMS OF HISTORY
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The Ongpins: Like father, like son
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Ongpin is the main street in Manila’s
Chinatown and, one can say, the symbol of this historic district.
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