The National Democratic Front’s negotiating panel categorically said that it had not requested the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to mediate in the stalled peace negotiations between them and the government.
The Bangsamoro development plan is consistent with the national development plan "that is anti-Moro and pro-foreign (investors),” a Moro group has claimed.
“It was an illegal arrest. No warrant was served to him,” she said.
If the Bangsamoro entity in Mindanao gets enacted, federalism would ride high on its success and to be drummed up much easier on the platform that provinces continued to be neglected by the national government, Mindanao leaders said.
A Moro National Liberation Front faction said it is unlikely to follow the ways of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) because of the latter’s “radical” view of Islam.