September 2, 1996, at exactly 9:22 a.m., went down in the annals of Philippine history as the moment the government
and the Moro National Liberation Front formally signed a peace agreement that ended a quarter of a century of fratricidal war in Mindanao.
The signing was preceded by an initialing of the final draft between former ambassador Manuel Yan, head of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines peace panel, and MNLF chairman Nur Misuari in Jakarta. The formal signing was made amid thunderous applause from the audience that included members of the diplomatic corps, officials from the OIC member-states, Mindanao leaders, and representatives of various peace advocacy groups.
The peace negotiation started in 1993 after Suharto offered his country and offices as the site and mechanism, respectively, for the resumption of the stalled peace talks between the Philippines and the“Our people are grateful, indeed, to the Indonesian government and President Suharto who placed his most qualified and experiencedRamos described Alatas, who proposed the first step in the Mindanao peace process in April 1993, as “a man of eloquence, profound intellect and a deep sense of...
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