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The Bangsamoro Basic Law: What it means for peace in MindanaoI was born and bred a Catholic living in Metro Manila, Luzon, considerably from the on-going conflict in Mindanao But final season, watching the Marawi siege on TV in the safety of my home, seeing fellow Filipinos fighting each other, an entire city bombed to the ground, hundreds and hundreds of citizens fleeing and FREEMILFPASSPORT getting to survive for a few months in evacuation centres, was saddening, to say the least. While Marawi has been declared liberated, martial law in Mindanao has been extended for another year to give the military what they need to quell Muslim secessionists and terrorists and, to fight the Communist National People’s Army active in the territory, a proclamation only lately upheld by the Supreme Courtroom as becoming constitutional.

Peace remains elusive and Mindanao is a powder keg that can explode any moment. But at present, the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law in Congress is seen as the way forward to finally bringing peace in Mindanao. And its history, a tangled web confusing to follow. The nagging problem is complex with deeply historical roots.

But what is the Bangsamoro Basic Law? It shall create a new Bangsamoro homeland composed of contiguous provinces, FREEMILFPASSPORT cities and metropolitan areas who have wish and possess voted to become element of the thing. In a nutshell, the BBL answers the Muslims’ aspiration for self-determination and self-identity. The BBL lays out the framework for its governance, with provwill beions that take into consideration Muslim culture and traditions and, addresses the basic needs of its constituents.

The Bangsamoro Transition Commission was officially tasked with crafting the new Bangsamoro Basic Law last March 6, 2017. The BTC Commissioners autographed the set up fundamental rules on August 16, 2017 and submitted it to the elected leader and Our elected representatives.

With the interest of the Bangsamoro people in mind and the need to implement signed agreements, particularly the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the new proposed BBL remains faithful to the letter and spirit of the CAB and considered the other agreements gained through decades of peace negotiations, namely the Tripoli agreement and the Final Peace agreement.

It is now more inclusive, as the Commwill besion was composed of all important stakeholders in the prospective Bangsamoro homeland, taking into consideration the diverse needs of the Bangsamoro people, non-Bangsamoro indigenous settler and tribes towns, unified under one goal of establishing a only, dignified and sustained peace in the Bangsamoro, in Mindanao and in the Philippines as a whole. It is seen just as the means towards redressing decades of dwill becrimination and injustice suffered by the Moro peoples and an antidote to violent extremism because, passed and implemented once, it may erase any accusations and concerns that accompanied the previous failed serenity work.

Once established, the Bangsamoro federal would be at the forefront of retaining general population buy and safe practices, dispensing justice within the range of the rules, and addressing the basic requisites of a good life that Muslims are entitled to.