The MNLF rank and file and the field commanders have, by and large, remained faithful to Chairman Nur Misuari. Notwithstanding the government propaganda that Chairman Nur was a ‘spent force’ and his group of MNLF was branded as ‘rogue MNLF’. The irony of it all was the belief that Chairman Nur under house arrest would be an easy target to destroy by state mechanism. But government and the EC 15 underestimated the ‘mystic’ or ‘magic’ of Chairman Nur. The Organization of the Islamic Conference or OIC continued to recognize Maas Nur Misuari as the CHAIRMAN of the MNLF. The ‘coup’ staged by the EC 15 never took off the ground. When government saw the futility of their attempts to dislodge Chairman Nur, the EC 15 met for the last time sometime in 2008 and it restored Maas as the UNDISPUTED CHAIR of the MNLF and the EC 15 self-destructed. By doing so the EC 15 hoped that they, too, would all be restored to their positions - a sort of maintaining the ‘status quo ante’. I was asked by the EC 15 and government to speak to Chairman Nur and plea for the acceptance of this formula for the ‘GOOD’ of the entire MNLF. I did talk to Chairman Nur on a one-on-one basis and I used all my power of persuasion and ‘wiles’ to convince Chairman Nur. I, too, was NOT only a failure in this regard but Chairman Nur gave me a two-hour tutorial on Betrayal 101. There was NO HOPE of reconciliation, for the simple reason that Chairman Nur considered the EC 15 as TRAITORS and to him this is a CAPITAL OFFENSE!
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:21:51 +0000
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