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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 August) – The first meeting this year of the government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Peace Implementing Panels on Tuesday, August 4, fell on a historic date in the Bangsamoro peace process: tragic in 2008, euphoric in 2011 and what in 2026?  Eighteen years ago, on August 4, 2008, the Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order barring the government peace panel chair, then retired General Rodolfo Garcia, from signing the already initialed Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), scheduled for August 5 in Kuala Lumpur. In October 2008, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 8-7, declared the MOA-AD unconstitutional but noted that “surely, the present MOA-AD can be renegotiated or another one will be drawn up to carry out the Ancestral Domain aspect of the Tripoli Agreement of 2001, in another or in any form, which could contain similar or significantly drastic provisions.” The peace negotiations collapsed after the a...