Austronesyo at Arkipelagong PAGTUTOL sa Moro SUBSTATE

Mapa ng Pilipinas, pag hinati sa 'Bangsamoro'

BAKIT ba kailangang pang ihiwalay ang ating mga kapatid na Muslim sa pagtatayo ng MORO SUBSTATE???? Bakit gagamitin na namang panghiwalay ang relihiyon sa ating bayan? Bago naman dumating ang Islam (at naunang Hinduism, atbp.) ay iisang AUSTRONESYOng lahi na tayo. Ano ba ang meron? Usapang Base Militar, Yamang Lupa at baka pati Lumang Ginto ba????

Substate Batay sa Relihiyon!

Hindi maikakaila na relihiyon, ang Islam, ang basehan ng napagkasunduan o fina.finalize na substate ni "Pangulong" B.S. Aquino de Hocus Pcos at ang rebeldeng grupong maghahari.harian dito kung sakali, ang Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Ayon sa mga ulat, kasama sa napagkasunduan daw na 'preliminary decision points' ng GRP o pamahalaan ng Pilipinas at ng MILF  "that the people should be actively engaged in 'determining the role of Shariah courts and the Islamic principles of justice and fairness in the region to promote the efficient administration of justice.'" Ang ipinahihiwatig nito ay magkakaroon ng sariling judiciary ang substate--kahit labag sa 1987 na Konstitusyon--at ito ay magiging batay sa Islam.

Hindi kailanman lehitimong basehan ang relihiyon upang humiwalay dahil unang-una, sa Saligang Batas ng Pilipinas ay may 'separation of the church and the state.' Pangalawa, ang pag-sangayon sa Moro substate ay maaring maging precedent upang sumunod ang ibang grupo, mga lumad siguro, hanggang halos wala nang matira sa Republika... dahil sa relihiyon o kung ano pa man. 

Walang nagsasabi na wala, o na hindi dapat igalang, ang ilang mga pagkakaiba ng mga Muslim at iba't ibang mga grupong etniko sa bansa. Subalit hindi dapat pinalalaki ang pagkakaiba sa relihiyon o ginagawang dahilan para paghiwalayin tayo dahil ang kaibhan ng mga Pilipinong Muslim at Kristiano ay para lang ding kaibhan ng mga Lumad sa mga Kristiano o Muslim na kababayan natin. Natural lamang ang ganyan dahil ang pagkakaroon ng iba't ibang relihiyon ay kaganapang makikita sa alinmang sulok ng mundo. 

Kaya nga mayroon tayong Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) ay upang ma.accommodate ang anumang pagkakaiba ng pamumuhay o kultura. Hindi na kailangang bumuo ng ilegal o katraydurang substate na magpapalayo pa sa ating mga kapatid na Muslim. Dagdag pa, nakakatakot ang substate dahil statehood na ang susunod na antas nito. In other words, DISMEMBERMENT of the Republic looms if this Substate materializes.

Austronesyong Lahi at Kalinangan

Sa video sa ilalim ay makikita na ang mga buhay na pruweba ng ating common Austronesian heritage--mga elemento ng kalinangang Austronesyano na makikita mula Hilaga hanggang Timog ng Pilipinas (at iba pang kalahi natin sa Timog Silangang Asya, kontinental Asya, at Oceania/Dagat Pasipiko). Pangunahin sa mga elementong ito ay ang WIKA kung saan hawig ang pagbilang ng mga numero ng mga Ifugao, Tagalog region, Cebuano/a, at mga Maranaw, atbp. Ang magandang Vinta naman ng ating mga kapatid na Moro ay kasing ganda at kahawig ng mga bangka sa Iloilo at maging ng mga taga Indonesya, Tailandiya, Kiribati, at Micronesya.

Ang may akda ng isa sa mga batis ng video na naturan ay si Dok Zeus Salazar, iginagalang na historyador at antropologo, na nagsulat din ukol sa pagdating ng mga ninuno nating mga Austronesyano noong h-k. 7,000/5,000 BK h-k. 800 BK. May nauna nang sinaunang Pilipino noon, ang mga unang tao sa arkipelago, subalit ang mga Austronesyo ay mas culturally advanced na homo sapiens sapiens at siyang  nagdala ng  "mga kagamitan, kaalaman at kasanayan sa iba’t ibang larangan ng pamumuhay [na] magiging pinakabatayan o haligi ng uusbong na kalinangang Pilipino."

Merong nga bang Bangsamoro?

Ang argumento ng ilan na dapat pabayaan na lang humiwalay ang mga Muslim sa Timog dahil sila raw ay may sariling mundo o identidad ay masasabing walang basehan. Ayon nga kay Dok Salazar, may mga pagkakaiba rin ang iba't ibang mga tribo o grupong Muslim sa Mindanao:

Yung [sinasabing] "sariling mundo at identiy" kahit ngayon ay wala pa, kahit na nga sa relihiyon (liban siguro sa ilang nakapag-aral sa ibayong dagat na Muslim). Kahit ngayon ay may sariling pagkakalinlan (at marahil kakanyahan pa nga) ang mga Maranaw, Magindanaw, Samal at Tausog; walang duda rito. Yung mga aktibidad ng mga grupong natagurian ng mga Kastila na "Moro" ay gawa ng mga datu ng bawat grupong etnolingguwistikong "Muslim" o "nagiging Muslim". Hindi lahat ay mula Sulu. Nagsasalitan sa pagitan nito at ilang mga datu ng Kanlurang Mindanaw, kasama na ang mga Subanen at ilan pa...

Kahit ang mga rebeldeng grupong Muslim--ang naunang Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) at ang MILF na siyang maghahari sa maaring matayong substate ay hindi naman iisa ang 'mundo,' ika nga at imbes ay may mga sari-sariling kalinangan at ideolohiya pa siguro. Nagkakatunggali din ang dalawang rebeldeng grupong Muslim na mga ito at matatandaan na ang MNLF ay tinanggap ang autonomy noong administrasyon ni Pangulong Fidel Ramos. Ayon nga kay Dok Salazar, "Kahit ngayon, may elementong 'etnolingguwistiko' ang pagkakaiba ng MNLF (Tausog) at MILF (Magindanaw)." Malalimang kaalamang pangkasaysayan ang kailangan. Ayaw kong pasukin ito dahil mas importante ang pagkakaisa at pagbubuklod..." 

Kahit  may mga ilang pagkakaiba man ang mga grupong etniko na Muslim sa Mindanao, at gayundin tayong mga Kristiano ang nakalakihan at mga Lumad ay may mga matingkad na pagkakapare-pareho rin. Tulad nga ng nasabi nang ating Austronesyong base race na makikita sa ating kaanyuan, wika, at artifacts. Ang isa pang mahalagang elemento na nagbubuklod sa mga mamamayan ng bayan ito na naghihiwalay naman sa atin sa iba nating kapitbahay na kapwa Austronesyo ay ang ating lupang tinubuan, ang ating arkipelago.

Bayang Hinubog din ng Geology

Ang geological na mga pangyayari libong taon na ang nakakalipas ay nagpapakita na nabuo ang ating kapuluaan nang mula sa malayong karagatan ay humantong sa bahaging ito ng Asya o Dagat Pasipiko at nag.INTEGRATE nang higit sa iba pang arkipelago sa mundo.

Around 54 million years ago, Manila and the rest of Luzon were underwater, located near where Australia is, he said. Mindanao, Palawan and Visayas were where Papua New Guinea is. But because of plate tectonic movements, the Philippines has become more integrated than any archipelago in the planet. The main islands of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao came together, enabling the Philippines to develop a diversified geology, and such variety made it an area of accumulation for different species.

http://www.tribuneonline.org/life/20110929lif1.html

 

Malinaw dito na kung usapang Bathala, Creation/Paglikha, o kahit Evolution ang nais, malinaw sa mga hindi bulag na iisa at buklod ang kapuluan natin. Kung kaya nga batay sa atin Austronesyong lahi at kalinangan at nabuong kapuluan, dapat panatilihin ang Integridad ng REPUBLIKA ng Pilipinas/Tagalog/Taga-Ilog/Maharlika.

'Bangsamoro' bilang Panghati ng Kanluran

Itinatanggi nguni't kitang-kita ang kamay ng Kanluranin, pangunahin ang Kalbong Agila, sa   pagtutulak ng Moro substate upang hatiin ang Republika. Isinawalat ito ni dating Pangulong Joseph Estrada at marami pang ebidensyang na makikita tulad sa Wikileaks at mga ulat mismo ng front groups ng imperyalista. The Daily Tribune's Ninez Cacho-Olivares sums it up when she wrote in a recent editorial:

 ... both the US and the European Union — want the country to grant the MILF a substate that is even independent of the Philippines, as they can rely on the Muslim group, under a substate, for them to exploit the resources in the country without going through the high court... Gloria [Arroyo], in her time, was pressured by these foreign governments to forge an agreement with the MILF, providing them with an independent substate. She did, and the accord was voided by the SC.

Mga Pruweba ng Kuko ng Kalbong Agila

Sinabi ni Estrada noong 2010 na nasa likod nga ng MILF ang Estados Unidos dahil gusto nitong hatiin ang bansa dahil sa interes nito sa yamang mineral ng Mindanao at upang makapagtayong muli ito ng base militar dito sa bahaging ito ng mundo. Matatandaan na sa  panahon ni Arroyo ay nagkaroon ng pagdanak ng dugo nang magkaroong ng maliit na giyera dahil nagalit ang MILF nang ibasura nga ng Korte Suprema ang precursor ng substate,ang Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain o MoA-AD.

Ang ginawang pagsisiwalat ni Estrada ay suportado mismo ng ulat ng isang quasi-governmental organization ng Kalbong Agila. Sa Pebrero 2008 na ulat ng United States Institute of Peace (USIP), inamin nito ang naging papel nila sa "peace process" sa Mindanao sa ilalim ni Arroyo. “In 2003 the US State Department …engaged the [USIP] to facilitate a peace agreement between the government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the MILF.” Ang USIP, dapat tandaan, ay nagsisilbi talagang instrumento ng foreign policy ng Estados Unidos dahil pinopondohan ito ng kanilang Kongreso at kabilang sa ex-officio na kasapi nito ay ang noon ay US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice at Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Nang si Aquino na ang umupo ay binuhay ang MOA-AD sa pormang substate at tamang-tamang may mga panibagong ebidensya na lumabas na nagpapatibay sa gahamang interes ng U.S. at pagni.ninong nito sa MILF. Naglabas ang Wikileaks ng ulat na ang Kalbong Agila ay sobrang interesado sa Mindanao, partikular ang Liguasan Marsh sa Cotabato Basin na may  288,000 hektarya ang lawak at kontrolado ng MILF.Sa estimates daw ng U.S. ay nagkakahalaga ng mula $840 bilyon - $1 trilyon ang hindi pa nagagalaw na yamang mineral sa bahaging iyon ng Pilipinas.

Sa kasamaang palad, ang MILF, sa suporta marahil ng mga elit at nabubulagang 'patriotiko' na Muslim, ay nagpapagamit sa damuhong Kalbong Agila  sa pag.asang mabibigyan sila ng konting grasya ng imperyalista. Ayon sa ulat ng Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, historically ay talagang may mga Moro na yumayakap sa kolonyal na puti, sa Estados Unidos, at ipinagkanulo pa ang kapwa Pilipinong Muslim nila. Makikita ito sa panahong itinutulak ang MOA-AD:

After faintly making noise about the U.S. military activities in Mindanao last February, for example, the MILF turned quiet after a visit from U.S. Ambassador Kristie Kenney. A number of influential Moros, many of them among those who have benefited from U.S. patronage, have unsurprisingly come out in support of U.S. military intervention in Mindanao.

LUZVIMINDA, ating Pilipinas/Taga-Ilog/Tagalog/Maharlika 

Huwag nating pabayaang mawasak ang Republika batay sa relihiyon o dahil sa pagtututa sa imperyalista. Huwag nating hayaang makialam ang Kanluranin, partikular ang Kalbong Agila, ang rasista at masidhing-pumatay na kaaway natin noong Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano (1899-1914), mga bully na bansa, sa usaping autonomiya ng kapatid nating mga Moro.  Bukod pa nga sa pagiging katrayduran at labag sa 1987 na Saligang Batas ang nilulutong Substate.   

Kahit ang agham ng Geology na, sa mga nanniwala sa Diyos ay galing din naman sa taas, ay nangungusap na hindi dapat mahati ang Pilipinas, hindi dapat mawala ang Mindanao o bahagi nito sa Republika, hindi tayo dapat maghiwa-hiwalay. Kay Lumad, Muslim o Kristiano, pare-pareho tayong may DUGO at KALINANGANG AUSTRONESYANO at iisa ang ating KAPULUAN, ang pinagbuklod na higit na 7,000 mga isla ng Pilipinas/Tagalog/Tagailog/Maharlika.

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Mga Batis:

Ang Pamanang Austronesyo (FILIPINO VERSION). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0hV-AVOfTg&feature=player_embedded#!

Deni Rose M. Afinidad, Staff Writer. The Philippines: The real origin of species? The Daily Tribune. 09/29/2011. http://www.tribuneonline.org/life/20110929lif1.html

Ninez Cacho-Olivares. Carving up the Republic. 04/26/2012. The Daily Tribune. http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120426com2.html

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. The U.S. and the Bangsamoro Struggle: Selfish determination vs Self-determination. 1 Sept. 2008. http://pcij.org/blog/2008/09/01/the-us-and-the-bangsamoro-struggle-selfish-determination-vs-self-determination

Salazar, Zeus. Kasaysayan ng Kapilipinuhan: Bagong Balangkas. 2004. http://bagongkasaysayan.multiply.com/journal/item/2?&show_interstitial=1&u=%2Fjournal%2Fitem

Sison, Joma. US Ambassador Kenney is Lying about US Involvement in MOA-AD Sham. http://www.josemariasison.org/?p=923

Bernardo, Jesusa. Salamat sa Pagtutol ni Erap sa Moro Substate. http://jesusabernardo.blogspot.com/2011/08/salamat-sa-pagtutol-ni-erap-sa-moro.html 

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Fallen Young Red Fighter Kemberly Jul Luna - Within the context of the EDSA 2-Arroyo/Ramos-CPP-NPA connection

THE death of 21-year-old Kemberly Jul Luna caused quite an uproar in the activist and leftist circles. Jul was a popular, charming, merry, and yes, beauteous, true-blue scholar ng bayan with multiple talents and interests from the Mindanao State University (MSU). She died a comrade, a member of the New People's Army (NPA), the military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), during a days-long battle with the military in Sitio Bulacao in Valencia, Bukidnon last December. Her tragic, principled (or ideological?) death made me ponder on the current state of the communist movement in the Philippines.


"Kimay"

Called "Kimay" by friends, she was a high school valedictorian from Tubod, Surigao del Norte who enrolled in AB English at MSU. True to the calling of her age, she initially lived what the Philippine Daily Inquirer described as "bon vivant lifestyle" marked by late-night parties. Despite, she still managed sustained academic performance and a host of campus cultural activities. Intelligent, active, party-goer, yet socially involved, Kimay was once a leader of the Catholic Center Campus Ministry and member of the Kalimulan cultural dance troupe until she embraced the leftist perspective.

In February 2008, she became an active member of the League of the Filipino Students. Supposedly, that was the time Kimay "shed herself off of all the petty-bourgeois individualism." By the first semester of school year 2008-2009, she was chosen as adhoc chairperson of MSU's opposition party, STAND-IIT.

Came second semester and she did not enroll as she completely turned to a very radical path. According to STAND-IIT spokesperson Mark Jason Tan Cesar, "She wanted to serve the poor and she was very resolute. She told us that she wanted to work with the peasants in the countryside. There was no stopping her.”

October of the same year, she bravely took part in uncovering the impact of militarization and indiscriminate aerial bombing of war-torn Tagoranoa village in Poona Piagapo in Lanao. She then engaged in full-time work organizing peasants as she reportedly joined the province-wide KASAMA-Bukidnon organization January of 2009.


Young, Scholar of the Masses, NPA, Dead

In August 2009, she informed friends that she left KASAMA-Bukidnon, saying only that has developed greater love for the peasants with every passing day she lives among them. She became an NPA.

Kemberley was reported missing in mid-December 2009 by human rights group KARAPATAN-Bukidnon Chapter. When her body was found days later, it was already much decomposed and dumped with those of seven other alleged NPAs in the forest of Brgy. Concepcion.


CPP-NPA & 'National Liberation'

Columnist Herman Tiu-Laurel laments and questions Kemberley's death, saying that "She follows a long line of fallen young warriors over the past five decades which include several of my own friends and comrades. Is this still the right way to fight for national liberation?"

For its part, the Communist Party of the Philippines released a press release saying:

Her martyrdom is extolled as well by the peasant masses whom she intimately lived with and served as a Red fighter and medic of the NPA until her last day... Her life of tireless work and selfless sacrifice for the downtrodden will forever be etched in the hearts of those she loved, worked and died for.

Unholy Mix: CPP and EDSA 2

I'm not exactly endorsing the path July chose to take. I do respect her decision because the depth of her patriotism led her to offer and sacrifice her youthful, promising, beautiful life in pursuit of her conception of 'national liberation.'

However, the organization she embraced, the CPP-NPA, the Communist Party of the Philippines of the present time, to my mind, showed itself too flexible principle-wise when it took part in EDSA II--what a foreign media outfit described as "the opportunist coalition of church, business elite and left....". I expected better from Jose Maria Sison's group, as I remember questioning back then why they would even consider joining forces with those of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and former President Fidel Ramos whom then-President Joseph Estrada wanted charged for the Centennial Expo and other corruption scandals.

While I don't subscribe to any form of totalitarianism, whether left or right, or religious, I've harbored respect not only for the personal conviction and sacrifice of its members but, as well, for the underground organization's principles. Back in 1985-86, the Philippine communist movement was chided for its decision not to support or join the EDSA I (original) "People Power" Revolution. The 'culprit' was its strict adherence to its principles such that the movement was unwilling to compromise enough to accommodate the unified opposition led by Corazon "Cojuangco" Aquino and Salvador "Doy" Laurel.

Arguably, the CPP-NPA should not have merely stayed at the sidelines during the historic 1986 Edsa 1. Definitely, to my mind, the Philippine Reds should NOT have shifted to opportunist mode during Edsa 2 which aimed for nothing but oust the not-entirely-clean but, nonetheless, relatively patriotic and nationalist Estrada.

By taking part in the ouster of the pro-masa and genuinely elected Erap by coalescing with unquestionably fascist and elite elements, the local communists have indicated their dangerous adoption of what can be seen as counter-revolutionary strategy and anti-populist mind frame at will.


Gloria Arroyo, Part of Joma’s Foresight?

Then again, is it possible that the CPP-NPA calculated that a Gloria Arroyo presidency would be more conducive to their goals? Way back before Gloria was able to grab the presidency, she was without question already a fascist, even imperialist agent.

Along with then President Ramos, Senator Arroyo was responsible for Philippines' membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade-World Trade Organization (GATT-WTO) in 1995. She was also the principal author of what has been called "the most environmentally-hazardous law of the land," Republic Act 7942 or the 1995 Mining Act, which permits foreigners a hundred percent ownership of the country's mines.

Compare Gloria to Estrada, who, despite the latter's agreement to the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), nonetheless braved neo-imperialist foreign interests by removing sovereign guarantees on government contracts. Did CPP-NPA leader Joma Sison figure that replacing the rather 'uncouth' but popular and pro-masa Estrada with 'fascist' Gloria Arroyo could speed up their brand of national liberation struggle?


2008 Mindanao War: Gloria, Kimay & Joma

It's been speculated that Arroyo virtually cooked up the October 2008 war in Mindanao to present an excuse to declare Martial Law in the country and extend her term scheduled to end in June 2010. Her administration signed the Memorandum of Agreement-Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) with Muslim rebels while well aware that such dismemberment of the Republic won't be allowed by the Christian community not only in Mindanao but in the capital. According to an October 2008 Malaya editorial, the MOA-AD is an "elaborate charade... [apparently designed] to provoke the MILF into going back to war as what is happening now" after the Supreme Court TROed the agreement.

A few months after seeing first-hand the horrors wrought on Davaoenos by the Mindanao war , Kemberly advanced from full-time peasant organizing to become an NPA. Wonder if Joma Sison foresaw Gloria's Illegitimacy would turn the 2001 power grabber into a devil-may-care megalomaniac, thus inadvertently serving as a hopefully effective NPA recruiting machine?

The last paragraph in the January 8, 2010 CPP press release on Kemberley Jul Luna's death reads:

Let us pay tribute to Kimay by amplifying the call for student, youth and other activists to join the New People's Army. As the people's revolution gears for greater advances, there is a growing need for more youth and students and activists from the other sectors to sign up as Red fighters, combine with the peasants and workers and contribute to carrying out the tasks of people's war with unprecedented vitality.

EDSA II - Part of Joma's Foresight, or Plain Mob Crazy?

It is a fact that the Arroyo administration is credited with the most number of salvagings, desaparecidos, and human rights violations in Philippine history, largely targeting the activists and socialists. Has the Philippine Left been had by Arroyo and Ramos when its members supported the EDSA 2 ouster of Estrada?

Or did Joma, et al. chose to avoid a more progressive administration to advance its “people’s war”? I’ve long harbored the suspicion that why Joma’s group went against Erap and took the side of the clearly fascist (or more fascist) Arroyo and Ramos was because Estrada’s ‘bakya‘ or masa appeal presented a strong competition in winning the masses, whose support they need in order to further their war style towards national liberation.

Of course, I could be wrong. I hope I’m dead wrong.

Then there’s the possibility that neither applies for the 2001 Edsa coup. If I remember accurately, broadcaster Korina Sanchez-Roxas commented back in early 2001 as to what could have possibly brought about Edsa 2, saying something like “It’s as if a cloud of something descended upon the people who took part in it.” It is not entirely impossible that the Edsa II people simply went mob crazy. So crazy they went the side of Centennial-Expo-defensive Eddie, ‘Tabako’ Eddie....

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References:

Baguisa, Pedro. Philippine Communist party PKP-1930. http://www.solidnet.org/cgi-bin/agent?meetings/779=communists_experience_with_alliances_and_cooperation_23-25_06_2000_athens/821=philippine_communist_party(pkp-1930)

In Memory of Kemberly "Kimay" Jul Luna: Iskolar ng Bayan and Freedom Fighter (July 23, 1988 - December 15, 2009). Arkibong Bayan Site. 8 Jan. 2010. http://www.arkibongbayan.org/2010/2010-01Jan04-Kimay/kimay.htm

Ofreneo, Rene and Malaluan, Nepomuceno. Threat Economics. 12 Nov. 2007. http://www.uniffors.com/?p=1167#more-1167

Philippines: CBCP should reject Arroyo along with her Mining Law, environmentalists say. http://www.pinoypress.net/2008/02/25/philippines-cbcp-should-reject-arroyo-along-with-her-mining-law-environmentalists-say/

"The road map to war." Malaya. 23 Aug. 2008. http://www.malaya.com.ph/aug23/edit.htm

Tiu-Laurel, Herman. Infowar vs national mental rot." The Daily Tribune. 11 January 2009. http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100111com4.html

Tupas, Jeffrey. "A life of passion for poor remembered." Inquirer.net. 07 Jan. 2010. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100107-246059/A-life-of-passion-for-poor-remembered

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