Kiram is a Hero to the Moros

Since Janet Napoles and the Pork Barrel scandal has monopolized news content the past few months, most people have become clueless as to who this Sultan news outlets were reporting to have died was. This week the self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III, the sultan who sent his royal army to invade Sabah, succumbed […]

Peace for Good or Peace for Now?

Entering it’s eleventh day, the siege of Zamboanga is finally showing signs of its’ end after Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) secretary Mar Roxas proclaimed that only 50 of Nur Misuari’s crusaders remain in the city scattered in two different barangays. The news was widely-welcomed, and was anticipated by the Zamboanga business owners […]

Catch-22

“We aim to be successful in establishing a Bangsamoro state; not an autonomous region but an independent Mindanao will be the Bangsamoro state.” Those were the chilling words of an MNLF commander during an interview with a news reporter in Zamboanga City. Once the leader proclaimed the group’s intentions, the throngs of supporters he had […]

What’s ours is ours, what’s not is not

It is said that sovereignty lies at the forefront of every nation’s identity. Everything that is within the borders defined by the state’s constitution is part of their heritage, it is their patrimony which they are ordained to defend because they have sovereignty, or the moral responsibility, over this domain. In failing to safeguard their […]