Moro Groups to OIC Mission: Check RP�s Rights Abuses

May. 20, 2006

MCPA and Kawagib call on the Organization of Islamic Conference to deny the Arroyo administration�s request for an observer status at the world Muslim body

COTABATO CITY � A progressive Moro rights groups is set to lodge complaints against the Philippine government before the visiting members of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).

�The Bangsamoro�s human-rights situation is marked with the GRP�s (Government of the Republic of the Philippines) blatant offenses (against) the GRP-MNLF peace agreement,� said Ren Jalaluddin Ropeta of the Moro-Christian Peoples� Alliance (MCPA).

The MCPA�s report to the OIC, he said, �will highlight the Arroyo administration�s war policy in Mindanao, which has (wrought) terror and caused thousands of human-rights violations against the Moro people.�

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