The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao may be contributing so little to the country’s national treasury, but the government is willing to pour billions of funds to the region to help create the politically autonomous Bangsamoro entity | Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Former National Treasurer Leonor Briones on Tuesday questioned the unconstitutional provision in the Bangsamoro Basic Law allowing the Bangsamoro juridical entity to conduct its own parallel audit apart from the mandate of the Commission on Audit | Manila Standard Today
Switzerland is now fully involved in the Mindanao peace process as it chairs the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) that will deal with past atrocities committed by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Philippine government troops | Philippine Star
Saying that the Bangsamoro Basic Law will establish an inclusive new political entity and “not an Islamic state where non-Muslims will be discriminated”, the lone migrant settler representative in the Bangsamoro Transition Commission – the body that drafted the BBL – called for support to the proposed basic law now in Congress.
Aside from the weapons of more than 10,000 fighters, a huge challenge to the normalization process is the presence of tens of thousands of loose firearms in the areas covered by the new Bangsamoro entity | Philippine Daily Inquirer