Disturbing post

The former President of the Republic of the Philippines, Jose Marcelo Ejercito aka Joseph Estrada or fondly called Erap, is accused by blog Shepherd Lions Gathering of having ordered the seizure of the camps of MILF.

Many of the camps according to Lion of the Maze were sacred sites to Muslims. They were not necessarily just camps; the battlements merely served as security for the sites. The sad thing about those sites, treated as camps by Estrada and his advisers, they were desecrated and most of them were not returned except recently when the 2004 resumption of the GRP MILF peace talks kicked off. Many suffered from the all-out war of Estrada. That is why the negotiations and the appeasement schemes of his predecessor, former Pres. Fidel V. Ramos all went to naught.

Now the MILF allegedly have radicals. Leaders that do not want to toe the moderate line of mainstream MILF, so-so. And they attacked North Cotabato, the home province of Gov. Sacdalan and Vice Gov. Piñol. A lot (as in thousands) of Maranaos and some Maguindanaos live in these places. A lot of Muslims likewise live in San Juan, Pasig, Mandaluyong, and nearby in Taguig, Makati, etc. A lot of these Muslims do business at Virra Mall, at San Juan Market, and in so many places nearby.

If these radicals are really intent upon war, as Lion of the Maze said, then they should not have killed civilians when they attacked North Cotabato. Also, why attack North Cotabato when it is Muslim country? Or Lanao del Norte?

Of course, there are Christians there. But as blogger Juned Sonido says, Christians and Muslims have lived and co-existed happily over the years in many parts of Mindanao. Maybe Lion of the Maze is right in saying that there is something else behind the attacks and why the MILF is not willing to surrender Bravo, Umbra Kato nor Pangalian, the stringer.

Perhaps it is correct to say that indeed there is no truth to anxieties and fears of war erupting in Mindanao. Perhaps Lion of the Maze is right: the war is a counterfeit, fake war. It is simulated. Somebody is orchestrating the events in Mindanao. Otherwise as he says, if the hostilities are really real, authentic, the first one to die should be Estrada, Piñol, Sacdalan, all the others that are preventing the Muslims from owning their own homeland. As we mentioned earlier, Estrada is easily accessible to Muslims that are all over and all around San Juan.

But they are not killing the supposed real enemy. They must be, as Lion of the Maze says, dealing instead with people whom they are supposed to target. Now that is very sinister indeed. And it has got to stop or must be stopped. In my honest opinion, it will be difficult for the government to have been the one to instigate the present hostilities. That would also have been very self-defeating. But the rivals of this administration, as Lion of the Maze says, have a lot to gain. So there may be a ring of truth to the claim that the two are working together for the government to finally fall apart.

Media reportage about the curious events in Malacañang involving generals and the President, could all be a way to convince us, poor average people that the end has come for this regime and the new transitional regime will now take over.

Aw come on.