MUSLIM MINDANAO: Four Years After the Peace Agreement

From: Southeast Asian Affairs | Date: January 1, 2001 | Copyright information

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In September 1996, the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) signed a Peace Agreement. At the time there were many who hailed the agreement as bringing to an end a conflict between Muslim and Christian Filipinos which had begun with Spanish settlement in the Philippine islands in the sixteenth century but had entered a new, violent phase in the early 1970s.

Such optimism, however, was poorly founded. For ...

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