This document consists of excerpts from the plenary talk of Mr. Mohagher Iqbal, then Chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Implementing Peace Panel, delivered on 10 November 2017, as part of UGAT’s 39th Annual Conference, held at Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City. Since then a Bangsamoro Transition Authority has been installed by Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte; the Philippine Legislature passed Republic Act No. 11054, the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in July 2018; and a Plebiscite was held in early 2019 which ratified the Organic Law. Thereafter, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao was established, and its governing Parliament was constituted from appointees of both the government and the MILF. At present, this Parliament is working on priority bills, including its Administrative Code, Election Code and Indigenous Peoples Code. AghamTao offers Mr. Iqbal’s 2017 remarks here as historical documentation of a senior MILF official’s perspective on the struggle of the Moro peoples, and perhaps more importantly, on the MILF’s political and legal transition from a resistance movement to a key stakeholder in regional governance, peace and development.
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