Samira Gutoc, lead organizer of the event and founding chair of the YMPNM, in providing the rationale of the activity, stressed that the Moro cause may not only be the assertion of the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity but revolves around "the many layers of discrimination" against the Moro people. The BJE is the proposed territory that is supposed to be governed by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) had the MOA-AD been signed and the peace talks proceeded.

Gutoc enumerated the Moro cause as: 1) affirmation of the right to self-determination (RSD), 2) a Moro nationalist identity, and, 3) uplift of Moro people's lives.


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