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Historical Injustice In Mindanao Essay

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Historical injustice has been a part of the Philippines history. Many injustices have already been resolved or left in the vestiges of time. Today, there are still many issues that are unresolved, and one of these issues is the historical injustice in Mindanao. Flow Simulation Ltd. (2015) defines injustice as “the practice of being unjust or unfair”. The unfairness that is happening in Mindanao is graft and corruption, human rights abuse, land conflicts and many more. According to Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2005) pointed out that “abuses perpetrated against indigenous peoples represent perhaps the largest number of historical injustices” (par.4). From this, it is apparent that historical injustices in Mindanao were mostly derived from discrimination of a certain group of people. The same also happened in Mindanao, wherein there was a conflict of interest of different parties involved in the negotiation of BBL. The existence of the conflict of interest came from the movement for freedom of the Moros (Quevedo, n.d.). This movement for …show more content…

The BBL is considered to be the result of the mediation between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Pamaos, 2014). From this, it is clear that the Bangsamoro Basic Law is the movement of the government and the MILF towards the unresolved issue of historical injustice in Mindanao. According to Pamaos (2014), “the House Bill No. 4994 states that ‘an act providing for the basic law for the Bangsamoro and establishing the autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao, repealing for the Republic Act No.9054’, Entitled ‘an act to strengthen and expand the organic act for the Autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao’ and the Republic Act No. 6734, entitled ‘an act providing for an organic act for the Autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao’ and for other purposes”

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