BULDON, Maguindanao -- Amid suspension of supervisory powers
over the Philippine National Police as directed by the National Police
Commission (Napolcom), Maguidanao Gov. Esmael Toto Mangudadatu continued his
peace-building efforts in Maguindanao.
On Tuesday, Mangudadatu led the provincial government and met with
warring Moro clans locked in decades old “rido” (clan war) that already claimed
the lives of innocent family members from both sides.
In the towns of Buldon and Barira, two towns in the crossroads to Lanao
del Sur and Marawi City where fighting between the terrorists and the
government is still raging, Mangudadatu and his team of peace advocates sat
down with the huge families Tomawis, Dagalangit and Malambot clans.
”I am so grateful you all agreed to smoke the pipe of peace,”
Mangudadatu told elders of the three Muslim clans as everybody listen quietly
to his pronouncements.
The governor told them nobody wins in armed conflict. “The end losers
are you and me and our future generation, we need to settle this now and I am
glad you are with me in this quest,” he added in Filipino.
Pursued by the Task Force Reconciliation and Unification Council
(TFRUC) that Mangudadatu created when he first elected to office in 2009, the
reconciliation was successful as everybody, including the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front, police and military had played roles.
The reconciliation was capped by a “kanduli” (thanksgiving) program
where everybody eats the military’s “budol-budol fight.”
More than 200 clan wars have been settled since 2009, Mangudadatu said.
In the same venue, Mangudadatu assured the more than 700,000 residents
of the province is free from terrorists. (EOF/PNA) posted by Becky D. de Asis-|The Redline News.
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