(The piece below was first published in the moribund Pinoy-rin.net and Inq7.net on April 10, 2001. When I reposted it in PCIJ on July 29, 2005 as a reaction to Sheila Coronel’s “Dreaming of Federalism,” it elicited some purposeful exchanges among commenters; it was also picked up, and a shorter form of it was published [...]
The Bangsamoro Juridical Entity MoA: High Crime?
August 11, 2008 By 11 Comments
With the fighting having erupted over the weekend in North Cotabato, the need for a resolution of the constitutionality of the disputed and TRO’d Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between the Arroyo Regime and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has taken on a truly urgent nature. Four days from now the Supreme Court will [...]
JI Wins if MILF-GRP Plot Works
August 10, 2008 By 10 Comments
Colleague Patricio claims that militant Islamist group the Jemaah Islamiyah stand to gain if the MILF-GRP peace talks fail. With all due respect, Pat, that is a large dollop of pure, unadulterated, steaming-hot BS. You argue that if the MILF loses its credibility by not making Bangsamorostan a reality, its fighters will turn to extremism, [...]
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