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Villagers displaced
by Vincent McKee
MORE THAN 185,000 Christians have fled their homes in strife-torn south-west Mindanao, and there is a confirmed death toll of at least 44, as a counter-insurgency operation by the Philippines military finally succeeded in flushing out Islamic insurgents from illegal control of more than a dozen villages in the region. The villages had been seized over the previous ten days by guerrillas from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and terrorist Abu Sayyaf groups, after the Philippines Supreme Court had earlier halted the signing of a peace accord with Muslim separatists that would have transferred 712 villages and the entire province of North Cotabato to an enlarged Muslim autonomous region. Elsewhere, in the Muslim island of Sulu, four Christian villagers died at the hands of an Abu Sayyaf gang infuriated at military actions in North Cotabato. |
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