Members or supporters of the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group gathered in their tens of thousands on Sunday to discuss a landmark law granting them autonomy, with one expressing hope it would make their “dream of peace” a reality, according to the Agence France-Presse. On Thursday, in a historic move, President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), creating the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Former president Benigno Aquino III on Saturday hailed the passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law, which gives wider self-rule to the Muslim minority in the south, ABS CBN News reports. Aquino forged a 2014 peace agreement with Moro Islamic Liberation Front that called for a self-rule law. He failed to get Congress to pass the measure before he stepped down in 2016.