The Right To Self Determination

In the past days, weeks, months even years, Mindanao is known to be a chaotic place where they asked for a separate government over the national government. Many people have been fighting for their independence and hoping for a peaceful environment but it just worsens. For more than 40 years minority Muslim groups, indigenous ethnic people known collectively as Moros have fought for self-determination. The Mindanao conflict, expressed in Muslim armed resistance against the Philippine state, has deep historical roots and resolution is definitely not easy. The armed conflict which has been fought under two competing banners of national self-determination on the one hand, and protection of state rights on the other hand, has taken thousands of

The right to self-determination is the collective right of a people to determine its own future, free of any outside interference or coercion. It includes the right to determine this people’s political status and to freely pursue its economic, social, spiritual and cultural development. In connection to the definition of the right to self-determination the Muslim people had clearly act to every word of self-determination. They really do exercise their right to self-determination but have not yet been officially recognized as a separate government of the Philippines. It is still on the process of recognizing their request to be separate and to have its own law and governance and which we cannot interfere their own decisions and its economic

First, the low degree of political autonomy which would enable Muslims to protect, safeguard, and defend their culture, identity, language, ways of life, and religion. Second, the inability of the state to adequately meet the basic socioeconomic needs of the Muslim community. Third, the widespread belief among Muslims that they have been victims of the state’s systematic socio-cultural discrimination and politico-economic exploitation, an impression that has been reflected in the present-day economic, political, and social marginalization of the people. The present political governance structure has not only rendered the Moros and other minority groups powerless but also excluded them as part of the Filipino nation. The lack of power sharing due to the concentration of political powers on the few ruling elite either from the central government in Manila or Mindanao’s regional administrative centers has been a constant source of discontentment and frustration of people in the periphery. The increased despair, misery, and frustration especially for those people in the most marginalized communities and regions in Mindanao have fuelled armed