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In that sad moment of takeover, Nur
Misuari woke up one morning with a sad news that the 15-men
Executive Council of the MNLF Central Committee that he
appointed had conspired overnight to declare him incompetent.
After that, the 15-men council stage-shown a terroristic attack
and pointed their fingers on Nur Misuari, which gave the
Department of Justice of the Arroyo Administration a reason to
issue his arrest warrant.
THE FRAME-UP
Nur
Never NEVER NEVER NEVER turned "postal" in his entire leadership
in the ARMM after the signing of the 1976 Tripoli Agreement. In
2001, the Arroyo Administration took over the National
Government from Estrada with the help of the MILF, bombings
here, bombings there. Immediately upon sitting on the throne,
she wanted to remove ARMM Governor Misuari and have him replaced
by her puppet. Nur's post was turned over temporarily to Isnaji,
an appointee of President Arroyo.
Despite taking over ARMM,
GMA still have one problem - the MNLF. She knew that she could
not smoothly corrupt the ARMM using the MILF if MNLF is still
strong. So what she did was bribe all the members of the MNLF
Central Committee to conspire Nur Misuari. One morning, Nur was
susprised with the news that the MNLF Central Committee has
declared him "incompetent" and yet he is being eleveated by
these conspirators to the position of Chairman Emeritus (a
position usually given for VERY old retired chairmen). Nur was
shocked.
GMA never had enough. In
line with her Strong Republic slogan, she decided to capture ALL
members of the opposition. She used again the MNLF Central
Committee to stage-play a violence in coordination with the MILF
and launch a malicious propaganda that it was Nur who is making
trouble (their term is "Postal"). But the truth is, Nur has
nothing to do with any violence during that time. Naturally
since it was a stage play, the DOJ searched all houses where Nur
resides (being rented by the national government for Nur) and
they planted illegal drugs as evidence against Nur. They also
lodged him with a case of rebellion. Nur went into hiding and
attempted to exit the backdoor. When he entered Malaysia, the
Malaysian authorities arrested him and he was extradited to
Philippines.
As a result, Nur became a
political prisoner of GMA from 2002-2008, just like anyone else
like Erap, Trillanes, Satur Ocampo, and many more. That is the
truth.
RUNAWAY FROM PERSECUTION
Nur Misuari tried to seek
sanctuary and escaped the Philippines through the backdoor but
was captured in Malaysia. Nur Misuari, the Leader of the MNLF, a
UN Peace Price Awardee and a Nobel Peace Laureate Nominee became
a political prisoner of the Arroyo Administration from 2002
until he was exiled to Jeddah in 2008.
For the period 2001-2010,
the demon-possessed MNLF led by this 15-men council allied with
other groups specifically the MILF, Abu Sayyaf, and the AFP.
During the reign of the 15-men council of the MNLF, these
groups, which the UN noted as violators of human rights, hasteam-played
their tactical cooperation in sowing terror in Mindanao, in
protecting the illegal loggers and land grabbers, in corrupting
the funds of the ARMM, and stopping the economic development
projects in Mindanao to maintain a good pool of vulnerable
population that they can exploit. Nur was watching these
catastrophic things unfold and tears of the nationalist just
flow like stream from his eyes, yet he can't do anything about
it because he is maltreated as a political prisoner in his
homeland Philippines.
From 2001 to 2010, while
the true MNLF Leader Nur Misuari was persecuted by the Arroyo
Administration, the number of empoverished families in Mindanao
doubled from 1 million to 2 million. While they sit on power and
rub elbows with the Arroyo Administration, the 15-men council
who took over MNLF kept on brainwashing the mind of the people
that it is Nur Misuari that should be blamed for these miseries.
THE
MALICIOUS PROPAGANDA THAT NUR WAS A CORRUPT ARMM GOVERNOR
The most malicious
propaganda that the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo regime used against
Nur Misuari was a publicity that he corrupted the government and
OIC funds for the ARMM during his term as governor of the ARMM
from 1996-2001. I was asked to comment about this and I have a
short quick answer.
The Arroyo Administration
did not file any corruption case against Nur because they know
there is no money to run after a man who lives in frugality who
rides jeepney and live with relatives when on travel. They did
found a way to pin him down with fabricated allegation of
planted evidence of illegal drugs and political persecution on
rebellion. The Arroyo Administration never filed a single cases
against Nur that has something to do with allegation of him
raking in money MONEY from the ARMM fund, primarily because they
know that Nur has no money because he did not steal.
The allegation that Nur
corrupted ARMM money is a mere political propaganda of the
enemy. Nur Misuari is self-reliant and lives a frugal lifestyle.
However, there was a period
in time when Nur was governor of ARMM that he and his family was
made to live in first-class hotels in Metro Manila. The
Philippine national government spent for that arrangement
because Nur has no residence in Metro Manila and the GRPH has
scheduled him to series of speaking engagements (about the ARMM)
in Metro Manila and anywhere in the world to convice the whole
world that Mindanao is at peace and encourage investing in
Philippines. The expensive hotel residency was the idea of the
GRPH who handles the funds and schedule for Nur's activities,
and it is the GRPH who implemented the idea. Nur did not like
the hotel living because he finds it contrary to a lifestyle of
frugality that he is used with, but the GRPH insists that he
reside in expensive hotels. I even personally know that there
was a real estate broker who helped Nur Misuari find a cheaper
house for rent in Metro Manila as an alternative to the hotel,
but the transaction did not push through because of
discrimination against Muslims -- the Christian owner of the
house refused to have it rented to a Muslim.
SIMILAR CASE IN THE PAST
The strategy of "Divide
and Conquer" is a commonly used tactics of the GRPH in its
battle against any group it considers as insurgents. This 2001
hostile takeover by the 15-men council is the second time that
the GRPH succeeded in creating a faction in the MNLF.
The first time was in 1975
when some leaders of the MNLF separated themselves from the
egalitarian idology of the MNLF and formed their own group
called "New MNLF", which later became Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF).
It should be made clear
that MNLF and MILF differ in ideology. While the MNLF respects
the differences of peoples religion and ethnic origins, the MILF
believes that Mindanao should become an Islamic State.
During the period
2001-2010, while Nur Misuari is prisoner, the demon-possessed
MNLF bahaved like an MILF because the 15-men council used the
MNLF to collaborate tactical operations with the MILF, which
scared the Christians and Lumads.
NEW ADMINISTRATION, NEW
HOPE
A new administration won
the 2010 election and the Philippines have a new President,
Noynoy Aquino who is a son of the late President Cory Aquino. He
assumed office in July 2010. Looking back at history, it was
President Cory Aquino who softened the young warrior's heart of
Nur Misuari in 1987 when she humbly visited the latter in his
stronghold hometown of Sulu to personally express her commitment
to the peace process (very unlikely act of a President).
If I may speak for the MNLF
under the leadership of Nur Misuari, I can sense the sincerity
of President Noynoy Aquino to pursue peace and progress in the
Bangsamoro Land. We are hoping that President Aquino will align
the the GRPH with the economic programs of the MNLF that
protects the self-determination of the Bangsamoro People.
MNLF IS NOW UNDER ORIGINAL
LEADERSHIP BUT NEW DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED THINKTANKS
In July 2010, the
peace-pillar Nur Misuari is back in business and MNLF has been
reorganized and revived. The true MNLF under the able leadership
of Nur Misuari appointed new set of Directors in key positions
of the MNLF, many of them are Christians with similar
egalitarian ideology as Nur's.
The MNLF contains no
political bitterness. Nur Misuari and the MNLF considers each
member of the Bangsamoro people as brothers and sisters, even
including those who have histories of betrayal.
With Nur Misuari taking
back the helm of MNLF, the GRPH-MNLF Negotiation has been
revived and the two initialled the common grounds to amend some
points in the ARMM Organic Act (see photo of GRPH and Nur
Misuari of MNLF brokered by the OIC). The Organization of
Islamic Conference (OIC) recognizes the MNLF as one of its
observer-member Nation since 1977 and they only recognize the
Nur Misuari as Chairman of the MNLF.
ONE MNLF
With the painful lessons
the MNLF learned in the past, it will upgrade its organizational
structure and level-up to a nationwide reorganization program .
In the reorganization, each member of the MNLF will be assigned
a specific dual position in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Government
and Bangsamoro Corporation that will be formed with the love of
the OIC-member countries. The reorganization of the MNLF will
focus on the members' adherence to a "ONE MNLF", and below is
what each member has to sign.
MNLF members believe in a
common HISTORY. The Sultanates in the Bangsamoro Land is an
older Sovereign State than the Philippine Republic. The 1935
Commonwealth Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines
ILLEGALLY annexed the Bangsamoro Land as part of the Philippine
Republic. Bangsamoro Land covers the territories of Mindanao,
Sulu and Palawan. Despite of the colonial attempts of both
Spanish Conquestadores and the American Colonizer, the Muslim
Bangsamoro people in its homeland has remained unconquered and
uncolonized up to this date.
MNLF members believe in a
common IDEOLOGY. As a Bangsamoro, I believe in Egalitarianism
State, wherein people should be treated as equals. There should
be no discrimination in terms of opportunities, rights, freedom,
and social responsibilities regardless of differences in
culture, race, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion, social
status, age, gender, and even educational attainment. The mortal
enemy of the egalitarian is Plutocracy (power based on wealth)
and Oligarchy (power rests in a few people in an inner circle
such as the concept of Islamic State of the MILF).
MNLF members believe in a
common IDENTITY. Bangsamoro is a term that includes Muslims,
Christians, and Lumads whose ethnic origin is from Mindanao,
Sulu or Palawan. I am a Bangsamoro by choice. I join the Moro
National Liberation Front (MNLF) in my own free will and
eagerness. As a member of the MNLF, I support its objective to
protect the freedom and human rights of the Bangsamoro people
and defend the sovereign rights and territorial integrity of its
homeland.
MNLF members believe in a
common COMMITMENT. There is only one MNLF and it is the one
founded by Nur Misuari in 1969. Nur Misuari is the Founder and
Leader of the MNLF. Legitimate succession of MNLF leadership is
through conspicuous appointment by the Leader. I will support
the missions of the MNLF organization including its political,
military, and commercial components. My position in the
organization of the MNLF is a result of my personal choice and I
will work hard to train and study to continuously improve my
knowledge, skills, and expertise in my chosen position. I will
assume another position in the MNLF only with the written
approval of the MNLF Leader. In the principle of Patriotism, I
will sacrifice my life if necessary to accomplish my mission in
the MNLF.
THE LEGITIMATE MNLF
LEADERSHIP
The Government of the
Republic of the Philippines (GRPH) and the Organization of
Islamic Conference (OIC) of the United Nations will only
talk/deal with Nur Misuari regarding Mindanao Peace Agreement.
All other groups outside the control and supervision of Nur
Misuari are not to be entertained by the GRPH and OIC.
So, don't waste your time
dealing with other groups such as the 15-men council who insist
they are still the Central Committees representing the MNLF. If
they are not following the leadership of Nur Misuari as Chairman
of the MNLF, they are out of the picture now since July 2010.
Regarding the MILF, as of
July 2010, under the new Aquino Administration, the GRPH appears
to have gone cold-hearted on the motivation to continue its
peace talks with the MILF. According to the Tripoli Agreement of
1976, the MNLF is the sole representative of the Bangsamoro
people. If the MILF is sincere, they must come back to the MNLF
so they will enjoy the fruits of the peace between MNLF and GRPH,
and also enjoy the benefits of the MNLF Economic Development
Program.
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