BISAG UNSA: Identity politics and the struggle for peace in Mindanao, By Mac Tiu
(Translation of a paper read in Cebuano at the 2009 International Conference, Philippine Political Science Association, with theme: “Reimagining the Nation-State: Consensus and Conflict on Sovereignty and Autonomy,” General Santos City, April 3-4 2009)
While in Manila for a conference two years ago, my writer friends and I talked about sundry things when the Mindanao issue cropped up. At that time, the terms Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE) and Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) were just being floated around. But my Ilocano writer friend already had a definite position on it.




