Revising the Bangsamoro Basic Law

Sadly, it took the mass murder of Special Action Force police commandos. Finally, amid the dead bodies of the Fallen 44, Congress has found the courage to stop the Aquino bullet train that is the Bangsamoro Agreement and Basic Law. Legislators will now do their constitutional duty of carefully reviewing and redrafting the BBL, as they are sworn to do with every measure they enact.

Both the Senate and the House of Representatives said this week that they would revise the Bangsamoro Basic Law bill, rather than pass it largely unchanged and on deadline at the behest of Malacañang and its negotiating partner, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).