October 27, 2012 7:29pm
SULTAN KUDARAT - The leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) warned Saturday a peace deal signed by his group could only end the armed conflict if the wider Filipino Muslim community supports it.
Under the pact, the 12,000-strong MILF would give up its quest for an independent homeland in the south in return for significant power and wealth-sharing in a new autonomous region there to be known as Bangsamoro.
Authorities and MILF leaders must work to convince the large Muslim minority that the October 15 accord was a step forward for them, the front's chairman Murad Ebrahim said Saturday.
"Please be reminded that the task ahead is bigger and more complex and complicated: translating this agreement into reality on the ground," he said in a statement read at a news conference on Mindanao island, home of the rebellion.
The decades-old conflict has claimed 150,000 lives and impoverished Mindanao, a resources-rich region where most of the mainly Catholic nation's Muslim minority lives.
The accord has been criticized by some factions within the rival Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which signed a peace agreement with the Philippine government in 1996.
MNLF founder Nur Misuari alleges a proposed autonomous government spelled out in the MILF agreement would violate the terms of the MNLF peace deal that created an existing self-rule area in the south.
Ebrahim said Saturday the group must "make our people feel that the Bangsamoro government envisioned in the framework agreement is their government and no longer the... government of the aliens."
He urged the MNLF and other Muslim groups to support the peace deal.
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