Malaysia&#039;s Role in the Peace Negotiations between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Soliman  M. Santos Jr.,

Malaysia's Role in the Peace Negotiations between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Abstract:

The Government of the Republic of the Philippines and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace negotiations were resumed since March 2001 with Malaysia as third-party facilitator. There was a previous period of GRP-MILF peace negotiations from 1997 to 2000 with no third-party facilitator. The MILF withdrew and the negotiations were effectively suspended in June 2000 at the height of then Philippine President Joseph Ejercito Estrada's "all-out war" against the MILF, which featured the Philippine military's capture of all of the MILF's fixed camps, including its main Camp Abubakar.