“We are supporting the 1996 Final Peace Agreement but not in bloody solution,” Zamboanga del Sur MNLF

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By JONG CADION

PAGADIAN CITY, ZAMBOSUR (September 23, 2013)  – The Moro National

Ressan Dumamba, MNLF

Member (Photo by JONG CADION)

Liberation Front (MNLF) in Pagadian City and Zamboanga del Sur are still supporting the September 1996 Final Peace Agreement but not in bloody solution like what they did in Zamboanga City.

The statement was agreed during their meeting participated by the majority leaders of the MNLF in Western Mindanao held in Pagadian City recently as their unified support of the statement of their comrades in Central and Northern Mindanao Region.   

During the meeting, a resolution was approved requesting both parties from the Government Armed Forces and MNLF Commander Habier Malik to stop the war and sit down to review the Final Peace Agreement in the Tripartite Committee. 

The said resolution will be submitted also to the peace forum tomorrow in Davao City for their unified stand to the OIC to be included in the agenda in the Tripartite Committee meeting.  

“We are supporting the sustainability of our September 1996 Final Peace Agreement because he (Misuari) is our leader but not in bloody solution like the Zamboanga City Crisis. Not all MNLF Group is supporting this bloody way as a respect to the importance of the Final Peace Agreement,” Ressan Dumamba, Chairman MNLF Panel, Peace and Development Advocates of Zamboanga del Sur State Revolutionary Committee said in an exclusive interview.

Ressan Dumamba is a former member of the armed group of MNLF and now working as Peace and Development Advocates MNLF Panel based in Barangay Muricay, Pagadian City making their area as Economic Zone and declared by the United Nation in their Peace and Development Program as Peace and Development Community.

“Our priority now is the livelihood of our people and to live peacefully. We are also supporting the ongoing peace talk through the establishment of Bangsamoro Region in accordance with the implementation of the Final Peace Agreement,” Dumamba added.

Barangay Muricay is a recipient of multi-million livelihood project from the United Nation and had a wide coastal seaweeds plantation that has a production of 75 to 100 tons in every 3 months.  

We are hoping that the crisis now in Zamboanga City will be ended immediately by concerned agencies, MNLF Peace Advocate disclosed.