MILF should prove its respectability

GOVERNMENT should talk peace only with reasonable and respectable armed groups or it could end up looking dumb, like what the Arroyo administration is viewed with the way the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is acting. The attacks on villages in North Cotabato and recently Lanao del Norte also caused untold suffering on people in the area.

One can interpret the latest atrocities the MILF committed two ways: the MILF leadership does not have control over some of its commanders or the attacks are actually part of the rebel groups’ strategy of forcing the signing of the contested Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on ancestral domain. Either way, the group is not a good party to a peace talk. ---- continued at sun star (cebu) journalist Bong O. Wenceslao