1. After more than 40 years of Bangsamoro struggle the MILF calls the youth to replace the post.
2. Another volumes of blog to post the blood, peace agreement, victims, displace etc.; Or real peace?
January 18, 2012: The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has called on the younger generations of Moros to prepare to lead their people once the time has come, but cautioned them not to cut corners or be on the rush. You still have many things to learn from the struggle and the only plus factors within you today are your idealism, assertiveness, and perhaps the acquisition of new knowledge especially technology that were unavailable 30 or 40 years ago.
This was the exhortation of Jun Mantawil, head of the MILF peace panel Secretariat, during a recent forum in Maguindanao town where the participants were mostly youngsters and college students.
Jun, a veteran revolutionary worker from 1972, started from the rank and, without aspiring for it, has slowly climbed the leadership ladder and becomes one of the most trusted leaders of the MILF.
He is the only member of the MILF peace delegation who has served it uninterruptedly since 1997. He is one of the “institutional memories” of the current GPH-MILF peace negotiation.
He told the youths that the current leadership of the MILF is fully aware that their time at the helm of the Front is not forever but only for a limited period and when that day comes, new generations of leaders will take over.
“This is the reason that development of new leaders is one of the priority programs of the MILF,” he stressed, adding that practically all revolutionary struggles have one common problem besetting them; the uncertainty of having new leaders who are as committed, dedicated, and ideologically- competent as the founders of the revolutionary organization..
He disclosed that although the late Chairman Salamat Hashim was the main founder of the MILF, but he was not alone, and amongst them are the current top leadership of the MILF, to namely only few: Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, Ghazali Jaafar, Alim Abdulaziz Mimbantas, Mohagher Iqbal, Sammy Al Mansoor, Sheik Omar Pasigan, and Sheikh Khalifa Nando.
However, Jun counseled them not think that they are of better stuff than those who earned their status not by the love for the world and ranks but is made possible through thick and thin.
He reminded them that leaders in the revolutionary struggle are not only borne but are also made out of the hard conflict.
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