The Moro National Liberation Front—Council of 15 led by former Cotabato Mayor Muslimin Sema did not show up at the public hearing and consultation on Bangsamoro Basic Law last week.
Tribal leaders here wanted more seats for indigenous peoples in the new Bangsamoro government.
Duterte said that Mindanao has lately been “taking a bashing from foreign sources.”
Ampatuan said that the “global menace of Islamist extremism is one of the ugliest ideological monster of our time”.
A Moro group on Thursday warned that the Bangsamoro law submitted to Congress have compromised the rights of Moro people and has actually restricted rights and powers of proposed Bangsamoro government.
A community-based school run by the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines in Talaingod, Davao del Norte has stopped its operations a day after celebrating their founding anniversary last October 1 due to intensified militarization.
“If only the admin [Aquino administration] pursued the peace process to the CPP-NDFP-NPA, these [human rights violations] will not happen,” Duterte said.
He said that the city will ensure the security of everybody.
“The problem is there are vehicles which are allowed to use public roads, highways and avenues, and there are those which are not allowed, and this includes passenger tricycles,” Duterte said during his weekly program Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa.
The station manager of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) Davao stressed Friday that their continued broadcasting amidst the strike launched by union workers is a way of fulfilling their responsibility to their listeners.
