When the first breaking news of the Sabah stand-off flashed on the internet, my sympathy is for the family of the Sultanate of Sulu. Say I am critical of the government 's stand regarding the issue since up to present, the President finds no urgency to convene the National Security Council. Thinking of the worst-case scenario, will the head of the state "cross the bridge when he's there?"
This morning, I visited the old house of the late Sultan Omar Kiram, a member of the royal family of Sultanate of Sulu. I tried to recall what was painted on the walls of the once imposing house, before it was desecrated by the hardware store that bought the land on which it stands. The remains of the once "big house" for the 10 prince and princes of Sultan Omar Kiram is now camped by police officers manning the Kidapawan ,Cotabato highway check point. I told the commanding officer that I was looking for the wall were the family tree of Sultan Omar Kiram was scribbed. They guided me inside and saw the wall I was looking for.
I had the chance to capture the vanishing mark of a family who sow the seed of simple life and peaceful living with the Christian and the Tribal communities of Cotabato.
Time had just passed and the demand for change, unfortunately , cannot be contained.
The structure of Sultan Omar Kiram's ancestral home that stand as a cultural and historical landmark in Mindanao somehow is no more but its legacy as Heritage of Peace will forever be felt by Mindanaoans.
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