Video 1: Congressman Rufus Rodriguez on BBL Congressional Hearing in Iligan City, Nov. 28, 2014

Video #3 - Media Forum on Bangsamoro Historical Background, By Ryan Rosauro

Video #2 - Media Forum on FAB and Bangsamoro Identity, by Ryan Rosauro

ILIGAN CITY, December 1, 2014 - Ryan Rosauro continued the discussions in the media forum to date, related to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) emphasizing the Bangsamoro identity. The FAB was signed on October 15, 2012 between the GPH and MILF peace negotiating panels in Malacanang, Manila. Bangsamoro identity was defined in 3 categories. It refers to the people, government and geographic territory. Bangsamoro identity did not refer to religion, a Muslims or Christians but referring to ancestry, Lumads or Indigenous peoples in Mindanao majority of them converted into Muslims before the coming of the spanish colony.

Bangsamoro is a national identity, nationality and citizenship is two separate issues. Citizenship is a legal concept, while nationality is commonality in ancestry as a people in a certain territory or homeland. Bangsamoro identity is the basis of the establishment of Bangsamoro political entity.

Bangsamoro identity is a key to political autonomy and normalization is the end to the state of rebellion.  Transitional arrangement and modalities is the manner to establish the Bangsamoro politcal entity. The creation of the 15-member Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) by virtue of the EO 120, is to craft the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) to replace RA 9054, creating the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). The draft BBL also mentioned about the creation of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) as provisional government of the Bangsamoro until 2016, the first Bangsamoro election will be conducted and commence the Bangsamoro Ministerial form of government headed by a chief Minister. with reports by Jun Enriquez and video by Ric Clet, DWIZ correspondent.

Video #1- Media Forum on Bangsamoro Historical Background, By Ryan Rosauro

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Datu Kinoc Guested Media Forum in Iligan City

ILIGAN CITY, December 1, 2014 – Northwestern Mindanao media practitioners successfully articulated the proposed Bangsanoro Basic Law (BBL) and Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), during the Media and multi-stakeholders’ educational forum held in Iligan Medical Center College (IMCC) on December 1. 2014. This activity coincides with this year’s Mindanao Week of Peace Celebration (MWoP), which started November 27 and ended December 3 bringing the theme, “We Pray for Long-Lasting Peace in Mindanao: Give, Share, Live and Proclaim Peace”. There were 20 media participants out of 66 participants others are coming from the non-governmental organizations (NGOs), students, religious and other sectors. The forum was grace by the interfaith of Christians, Moro and Lumad.

The said forum was hosted by the Civil Society Organization Forum for Peace (CSO-FP), a member of the Lanao Peace Partnership (LPP) is a collaboration of other non-governmental and one academic/government organization in Lanao areas comprises Iligan-based partner Organizations, namely,  Pailig Development Foundation, Inc. (PDFI); Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits, Inc. (EcoWEB); Kapamagogopa, Inc. (KI), and the Institute for Peace and Development in Mindanao of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT-IPDM). The LPP is the main partner of the German Development Cooperation-Civil Peace Service (GIZ-CPS) in the Lanao region.

Datu Kinoc in his message discussed the signed agreements by the GPH and MILF Peace negotiating panels, involving the Transitional modalities, wealth sharing, power sharing and normalization. He also mention about the normalization process.

Ryan Rosauro also presented the overview of the peace process and articulated from the historical up the present BBL processes. With reports from Jun Enriquez and Video by Ric Clet, DWIZ correspondent.