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Friday, February 14, 2003
Moro women slam gov't stance on MILF in Pikit
By Christie Louise Enriquez-Uayan
THE Khadidja Moro Women, an organization composed of Moro women from various communities in this city, has denounced the aggressive stance of the Arroyo administration against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Pikit, Cotabato.
The Khadidja assailed the government for promising to draft a peace agreement with the MILF while continuing the conduct of military offensives in Cotabato, which the group says has already devastated the lives of thousands of MOro people.
Presently, a reported 24,742 people from nine barangays in Pikit and one barangay in Pagalungan, Maguindanao have been displaced and housed in evacuation centers in Pikit town since last Tuesday's fighting in North Cotabato.
The Moro organization also hit the president for using the "terrorist threat in Mindanao" as the reason for continuing the "war of aggresion against Muslims."
Khadidja compared Mrs. Arroyo to US President George W. BUsh who is himself mulling over an attack to the oil rich Middle East country Iraq.
Members of Khadidja said that they will not allow "blood to spill in the name of regaining control of oil reserves and oil pipelines" to the coffers of American oil companies.
They said they refuse to agree with the government in its apparent support to the US in their aggression to Iraq, because such act means that Filipinos are signing our own death warrant.
(February 14, 2003 issue)
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