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[grabehbebe]

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New ceasefire monitors due in Mindanao next month

COTABATO CITY — A new batch of ceasefire monitors from Malaysia, Brunei and Libya will replace the 60 members of the international team helping enforce the truce in Mindanao whose tour of duty ends next month.

The three countries have been helping extensively the government’s peace overture with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) since 2003.

Secretary Jesus Dureza, presidential adviser on the peace process, whose office is actively involved in the government’s confidence-building measures with the MILF, said the new batch of ceasefire monitors are now undergoing orientation on their peacekeeping mission in Southern Mindanao.

Sources in the MILF peace panel said Maj. Gen. Soheimi Pahlawan, outgoing head of the international monitoring team, will be replaced by a certain Gen. Ismael Khan.

Soheimi and his predecessor, Maj. Gen. Dato Zulkifeli, chief of the first batch of ceasefire monitors which arrived in Mindanao in 2003, both focused on humanitarian projects that complemented the joint efforts of the government and the MILF in ensuring the cordiality of the ongoing peace talks.

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200608079903.htm

[snage]

I repudiate the idea of declairing war. A problem cannot be solve by another problem but rather complicate more. Some nations struggle for peace and yet here we are declaring war to a people who become rebels because of "problem in our society wherein graft and corruption exist everywhere, wherein human rights are always violated". They are fighting for there rights, principles and beliefs they are not bandits. Now, tell me is war really a solution?

[bcasabee]

Mura na ug itlog manok nga situation.................Dili man pud na solution ang mag rebelde para mawala ang graft and corruption sa gobyerno........mao pay problema na nang graft and corruption, dungagan pa jud ug laing problema kung mag rebelde rebelde pa jud....................ang klaro nga rason maong mag rebelde kay ganahan lang jud ang ubang tawo mag komonista..........

I repudiate the idea of declairing war. A problem cannot be solve by another problem but rather complicate more. Some nations struggle for peace and yet here we are declaring war to a people who become rebels because of "problem in our society wherein graft and corruption exist everywhere, wherein human rights are always violated". They are fighting for there rights, principles and beliefs they are not bandits. Now, tell me is war really a solution?

[snage]

Mura na ug itlog manok nga situation.................Dili man pud na solution ang mag rebelde para mawala ang graft and corruption sa gobyerno........mao pay problema na nang graft and corruption, dungagan pa jud ug laing problema kung mag rebelde rebelde pa jud....................ang klaro nga rason maong mag rebelde kay ganahan lang jud ang ubang tawo mag komonista..........

That's not my point. I'm not trying to extend the chain of problem here. What i'm trying to say is that "War is not a solution to a problem but rather another problem added to a chain". Why? Because even if we can eradicate all the communist rebels in our society, do you think another rebellious mind of generation would not rise to a government favorable only to a wealthy class of our society where injustice always prevails. I guess we all knew that. Some of them are farmers being abused and deprived of their rights by a wealthy individuals and even government officials blinded by their greedy ambitions. Now, wouldn't it be nice to think that communism is much better than what they are experiencing right now? I'm not a communist in my part i'm just telling what i think is their grief and the reason why they became rebels. If the government would only listen to them, let them experience that government is really for the people regardless of their status in the society, where government theives are being eradicated, just and humane society will always prevail. I don't think there's still reason that they will think of rebellion.

[wanderlust]

I repudiate the idea of declairing war. A problem cannot be solve by another problem but rather complicate more. Some nations struggle for peace and yet here we are declaring war to a people who become rebels because of "problem in our society wherein graft and corruption exist everywhere, wherein human rights are always violated". They are fighting for there rights, principles and beliefs they are not bandits. Now, tell me is war really a solution?

I don't think it's the government's stand that the problem can be solved by war ALONE. It's also pursuing peaceful means like through poverty alleviation programs, amnesty and such.

The contention that they are only fighting for their rights, principles and beliefs is justification for what they're doing is wrong. The law explicitly condemns rebellion and insurrection. The ends doesn't justify the means.

[ganggreen]

eh how abwt all out war in all trapos in our goverment!! npa problem in our country is product of much worst problem that our goverment failed to resolve.. poverty,lack of goverment support in the country side and the classic agrarian reform..

[boxingfan529]

we can't do that. they are the one in power. what we can see are only trapos vs. trapos.

[istoryador]

This war is dangerous because according to a pro-government analyst, Fr. Inengan of the Jesuit, the NPA is composed of armed regulars and sympathizers. These sympathizers although not carrying arms are the militia force of the NPA.

This is dangerous it will encourage more killings of innocent civilians. Because of that declaration there is now a blur who are combatants and those who are not.

Marcos employed this tactic before. Assassinations, disaaperances and hamletting but these did not defeat the NPA. It only strengthen it. Glue-ria Arroyo is bound to commit the same mistake.

[bcasabee]

Ingon man si Gov. Garcia nga ang iyahang all out war is not just using our armed forces.....apil na pud ang poverty alleviation, etc, etc........So I think mao nay sakto nga all out war......gamiton ang tanang venue for peace to prosper........

[pandisal]

This is why the government need to do all-out war vs the NPA:

http://newsinfo.inq7.net/inquirerhea...ticle_id=14394

NPA attacks Mayon troops

Grenade explosions injure 5 soldiers
By Delfin Mallari Jr.
Inquirer
Last updated 01:51am (Mla time) 08/10/2006

Published on Page A1 of the August 10, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

THUNDEROUS explosions greeted Army soldiers in Daraga, Albay, on Tuesday while they were packing relief goods for thousands of residents who evacuated from the slopes of the rumbling Mayon Volcano.

The explosions at about 8:20 p.m. came not from the volcano but from rocket-propelled grenades fired by some 20 communist New People’s Army guerrillas.