From Tempo (Feb 12): MNLF-BIFF alliance formed
A Moro leader yesterday confirmed the alliance between the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), a development that could threaten the framework agreement entered into by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Philippine government.
Hadji Acmad Bayam, former chief propagandist of the then undivided MNLF, confirmed the alliance between the BIFF and the MNLF faction of founding chairman Nur Misuari.
The other MNLF factions are led by former Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema and Habib Mujahab Hashim of the MNLF-Islamic Command Council.
“This will complicate the overall peace process,” said Bayam.
The BIFF has fought the military in Maguindanao after rejecting the peace talks between the government and MILF.
Misuari, on the other hand, also made known his opposition.
Bayam claimed “the 1976 Tripoli Agreement is the only (peace deal) regarding the Mindanao problem that is unanimously supported by the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation).”
He said the GPH-MILF’s Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) does not satisfy the letter and spirit of the Tripoli Agreement as per the OIC and MNLF’s interpretation.
Bayam, however, did not venture to say what concrete action the MNLF-Misuari and BIFF intend to do to spoil the GPH-MILF peace process.
http://www.tempo.com.ph/2014/02/mnlf-biff-alliance-formed/#.UvwPrHKPIcA
A Moro leader yesterday confirmed the alliance between the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), a development that could threaten the framework agreement entered into by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Philippine government.
Hadji Acmad Bayam, former chief propagandist of the then undivided MNLF, confirmed the alliance between the BIFF and the MNLF faction of founding chairman Nur Misuari.
The other MNLF factions are led by former Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema and Habib Mujahab Hashim of the MNLF-Islamic Command Council.
“This will complicate the overall peace process,” said Bayam.
The BIFF has fought the military in Maguindanao after rejecting the peace talks between the government and MILF.
Misuari, on the other hand, also made known his opposition.
Bayam claimed “the 1976 Tripoli Agreement is the only (peace deal) regarding the Mindanao problem that is unanimously supported by the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation).”
He said the GPH-MILF’s Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) does not satisfy the letter and spirit of the Tripoli Agreement as per the OIC and MNLF’s interpretation.
Bayam, however, did not venture to say what concrete action the MNLF-Misuari and BIFF intend to do to spoil the GPH-MILF peace process.
http://www.tempo.com.ph/2014/02/mnlf-biff-alliance-formed/#.UvwPrHKPIcA