Southern Philippines backs Muslim self-rule in landslide result

[EmperorScorpious]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/southern-philippines-backs-muslim-self-rule-in-landslide-victory

People in the Muslim-majority southern Philippines have voted by a landslide to create a new autonomous region covering five provinces and three cities, a result the government hopes will bring peace to a war-torn part of the country and address issues that lure recruits to Isis-inspired groups.

The plebiscite sealed a peace deal that the government signed with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2014, but which languished in the national legislature until it was approved last year. The rebels have pledged to end a three-decade separatist uprising that killed more than 100,000 people in exchange for broader autonomy.

Two crucial steps that will determine the success or failure of the newly created region will follow: governance and demobilisation. First, a Bangsamoro Transition Authority will be appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to govern until October 2020, when elections will take place across the country. The 80-strong body is expected to be dominated by Liberation Front nominees.

[GameWalrus]

Might be for the best. I know they're terrorists and all but isn't terrorism what occurs if not permitted legal channels to be able to do something? Would end the bloodshed here at least.

[GordonZombie]

Will this result in the election of a local theocracy though?

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I'd rther not create another Islamic theocracy thanks.

[Shirt.]

You'd think Sunnis would be opposed to a hereditary theocracy. How ironic that the students of the Sunni schools of thought are the most inclined to wield it.