VERA Files
TO PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte, they’re thugs to be stamped out. Or so he sometimes says. “There is no redeeming factor or reason for me to sit down and talk with criminals. […]
STATEMENT: In his first state of the nation address Monday, President Rodrigo Duterte, digressing from a prepared speech, talked about the peace process in Mindanao and the Bangsamoro Basic Law […]
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THERE was something amusing in the narration of Mamasapano Mayor Tahirodin Benzar A. Ampatuan that reflects […]
By JANE DASAL A BETTER police force, improved infrastructure and transportation facilities, and opening up business opportunities are urgently needed in areas that will comprise the new Bangsamoro political entity, […]
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – “On the same paragraph now, but it’s still a long paragraph,” Malaysian facilitator Tengku Dato’ Ab Ghafar Tengku Mohamed summed up to MindaNews Thursday the progress of the first three days of the August 7 to 11 peace negotiations here between the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews and VERA Files KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – The Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panels ended their three-day talks here Wednesday with a five-paragraph […]
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews and VERA Files KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – “On the same page now, but different paragraphs.” This was how Malaysian facilitator Tengku Dato’ Ab Ghafar Tengku Mohamed […]
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DAVAO CITY – A network of peace groups has asked the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels to suspend the election of […]
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS,Mindanews
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Now the silence can be explained.
President Benigno Simeon Aquino III and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim on Thursday evening shook hands and talked peace for two hours in a hotel in Japan with their respective panel chairs taking down notes, the President’s Cabinet members and the MILF’s peace panel and Central Committee members as well as the Malaysian facilitator waiting outside the meeting room.