Special Bond of Peace that Ties Mindanao and HWPL Together
“Our organization in Mindanao, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), has already signed a peace agreement with the government and we are already working for peace and working to have peace in our homeland. This will be our contribution to the struggle for world peace and we will welcome working together and cooperating with HWPL in order to achieve peace in our area and peace in the world.” Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, the Chairman of MILF, who attended the 1st Anniversary of the September 18th HWPL World Peace Summit showed a firm determination to bring peace in Mindanao, Philippines. Since this time, he and the people of Mindanao have not stopped stepping toward peace; in fact, they completely put an end to a 40-year-long armed conflict that caused 120,000 casualties and have changed Mindanao into a land of peace. After MILF made a peace agreement with the Philippine government in March 2014, they laid down their weapons and made an effort to establish the autonomous region. There was...