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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Did Allah ever tell the MILF, "Go make my people thine human shields"?

Based on what the MILF is doing in the past days we can conclude a picture of inhumanity complete with atrocious apartheid leadership they are likely to commit if ever they succeed to carve a self-governing pan-Islamic state out of Mindanao. I have always seen throughout history nations founded upon the blood of armies, rebels or secret societies, but never has such act of using the people as human shields been tenable inasmuch as it reflects the true colors of the bandits' agendum in raising up arms against the status quo state; that they are moving according to the MILF's vested self-interest and nothing more, not of the people, neither of Islam. They are making a fallacious logic whenever they involve the name of God (Allah) in their tempestuous undertakings, a notable one being that in the deceptive Mess of Agreement on Ancestral Domains, which begins:

IN THE NAME OF GOD THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT ON THE ANCESTRAL DOMAIN ASPECT OF THE GRP-MILF TRIPOLI AGREEMENT ON PEACE OF 2001

Yes, they are extolling God before they go raiding towns, open firing on everyone and hacking innocent residents with machetes and burning homes down to the ground, then they hostage the remaining civilians and use them as human shields upon voicing retreat. I've never heard of George Washington, Simon Bolivar, José de San Martin or Andres Bonifacio doing the same thing back in the old "Enlightenment" days of countries. Perhaps in the Balkans Kosovar Albanians were harassed and used as human shields back in '99, but it was Slobodan Milosevic's status quo government who allegedly carried them out.

However, just look at what the MILF did, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
In another part of Kolambugan, in Barangay Kulasihan, the rebels
shot at houses at around 4:30 a.m. PO1 Dexter Salvacion and a companion, Ricky
Sulicar, were gunned down while riding a motorcycle. Also killed in Kulasihan
were a cab passenger, Ricardo Gil, and an unidentified woman.

In Kauswagan, two passengers of buses that were either
torched or fired at were killed. Seven farmers also were slaughtered apparently
while attempting to flee. Some of the dead were left lying on the streets for
hours.

Television footage Monday showed mayhem in one smoldering
village as residents ran for their lives, jumping over the fence of their
houses. Burned-out vehicles littered the streets
.
This is probably one of the most bone-cringing periods of our history:
A force of around 80 heavily armed MILF men slipped at 2 a.m. into Maasim, a
coastal town of around 50,000 people in Sarangani in another part of Mindanao.
They ransacked a pharmacy and a pawnshop, set several shops ablaze and strafed
buildings, said Chief Supt. Felizardo Serapio. Two civilians were killed—pedicab
driver Joelito Omas and James Varon.
According to MILF vice chair for political affairs Ghazali Jaafar the offensive in Lanao del Norte had no “clear orders” coming from their leaders, and it strikes me with ultimate surprise that the MILF leadership's reaction to this violation of the 2003 ceasefire agreement is very dismissive, eversince Commander Umbra Kato's takeover of villages in North Cotabato last week they haven't made any move to punish the bellicose initiatives of their commanders. Is it because the central leadership of the MILF approves of what they are doing?
AFP Chief of Staff Alexander Yano explained this in Manila:
“It appears that several MILF sub-commanders are not controlled by the MILF
leadership and just using the peace process as a blanket to launch violent
attacks against the people of Mindanao,” he said.
This seems to spur President Arroyo to call for the “defense of the territory” as this PDI article reports, and may certainly sound decisive for the moment, as Yano called the attacks a “virtual declaration of war.”

If Arroyo sincerely wants to defend every inch of our territory, it makes sense for her not to pursue the country's convertion to Federalism because that will just put the Philippines in a losing grip and appease the self-serving claims of the war-hungry separatists.

1 reacted:

Been Disappointed in my entire life why I was raised in this filthy, dirty and stupid country. This country is going nowhere and no one can ever change it unless rich country take over us... America is too kind to adopt us during WW2 but we refused their wonderful offer now look at our state. We are dirt in this planet. Fuck this country!

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