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Madeline Shelling of New Zealand talked Councilor Angay |
ILIGAN CITY – The historical injustice has ignited conflict
in Mindanao that this generation inherits, City Councilor Ariel Anghay told
over the weekend in an interview with foreign researcher Madeline Shelling from
New Zealand at the Boy Scout Office,
Uni-top Building here.
Councilor Anghay said it could not be denied that the first
people here in Mindanao especially in Iligan was the Indigenous people, when
Islam came, some members of the tribe were converted and practiced their new
faith.
“Converted Tribe and those remained their faith felt that
the land of their forefathers were grabbed and held by the people most of these
Christians where having position in the
government”, Anghay explained.
government”, Anghay explained.
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Kag. Anghay replied the queries of foreign researcher |
Because of these it is easy on the part of few Indigenous
People to join the armed struggle of different groups fighting for justice,
Anghay claimed.
The people now need peace, but still under process where in need cooperation of all walks of
life for the government to success of doing a such but maintained in joining
his colleague in the council opposing the inclusion of few areas in Iligan City
in the Bangsa Moro Governance.
In 2008, Iligan City was strongly protesting the Memorandum
of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between
the Philippine Government and the MILF and the Supreme Court of the Philippines
declared the said agreement as unconstitutional, and fighting escalates all over the island.
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