After Bangsamoro Organic Law is ratified, now comes the hard part

Patrick Quintos, ABS-CBN News

This is why in a plebiscite in Cotabato on Monday, January 21, Saluguinan voted “yes” to a law that will create a new region promising greater autonomy to the restive homeland of the Philippine Muslim minority.Based on the final and official plebiscite results, the "yes" votes won in Cotabato City, which means it will now be included in new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), along with present Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, where the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) was overwhelmingly ratified.

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/tvpatrol/01/24/20190125-muslims.jpg' ><figcaption>Muslim women pray during a campaign rally supporting the Bangsamoro Organic Law. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA/COTABATO CITY—Hotel taxi service driver Tong Saluguinan is sick of the gunfights and killings in Mindanao, a southern Philippine area that, for nearly half a century, became a battleground not only between government troops and Moro rebels, but also of warring political clans and their private armed groups.

After the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law comes the hard part of homeland building and keeping the peace. It's going to be a "very long struggle," MILF leader Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim tells ABS-CBN News

After the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law comes the hard part of homeland building and keeping the peace. It's going to be a "very long struggle," MILF leader Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim tells ABS-CBN News

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After Bangsamoro Organic Law is ratified, now comes the hard part

After Bangsamoro Organic Law is ratified, now comes the hard part