Detailed Implementation Timeline: Mindanao Final Agreement

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Detailed Implementation Timeline: Mindanao Final Agreement

Implementations

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 1996

The main timeline for implementation in the 1996 agreement concerned amending RA 6734 and allowing for elections to expand the territory included in the ARMM. This was supposed to occurr in Phase I (1996-1997). After this legislation is passed, a referendum should be held in 1998 to determine who joins the ARMM. The legislation to repeal RA 6734 and the associated referendum did not occur in 1996. On 2 October 1996, President Fidel Ramos gives Executive Order no. 371 proclaiming a Special Zone Of Peace and Development in the Southern Philippines and establishing the Southern Philippines Council For Peace And Development and the Consultative Assembly.1

  1. “Executive Order 371,” Chan Robles Virtual Law Library, accessed August 01, 2012, http://www.chanrobles.com/executiveorders/1996/executiveorderno371-1996….

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 1997

The legislation to repeal RA 6734 and the associated referendum did not occur in the year.

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 1998

The legislation to repeal RA 6734 and the associated referendum did not occur in the year.

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 1999

The legislation to repeal RA 6734 and the associated referendum did not occur in the year.

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2000

The legislation to repeal RA 6734 and the associated referendum did not occur in the year.

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2001

Five years past the deadlines put forth in the 1996 accord, the Expanded ARMM Law or Republic Act 9054 became law on March 31, 2001 and the government scheduled the plebiscite for August 2001. MNLF leader and Regional Governor Nur Misuari demanded that the plebiscite be postponed for three more years, fearing that the development projects had not had enough time to be successfull and that voters would oust him as leader and not choose to join the expanded ARMM.1 The referendum was held in August 2001 as planned. Of the 14 provinces and 9 cities in the SZOPAD, only one additional province (Basilan) and one city (Marawi) voted to be included in the new expanded ARMM. Nur Misuari was ousted as Governor and replaced by Parouk Hussin.2

  1. “Misuari warned against making more threats to rebel again,” Business World, August 13, 1998.
  2. Astrid S.Tuminez, “This land is our land: Moro ancestral domain and its implications for peace and development in the Southern Philippines,” SAIS Review 27, no. 2 (2007): 77-91.

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2002

No further developments observed.

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2003

No further developments observed.

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2004

No further developments observed.

Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2005

No further developments observed.