The Philippine government’s decades long confrontation with Muslim separatists on the southern island of Mindanao and a second conflict with communist insurgents across the country have left some 160,000 dead and displaced more than 2 million people. Read more….
- 100,000 still uprooted by fighting
- Widespread poverty in war-torn areas
- Mindanao situation attracts Islamic extremists
The Mindanao conflict first flared in the 1960s when the Muslim minority – known as the Moros – launched an armed struggle for their ancestral homeland in the south.
Fighting escalated in 2008 after a decade-long peace process between the government and rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) collapsed. The two sides signed a truce in July 2009.
The campaign for self-rule is not the only source of bloodshed on Mindanao. There has also been violence linked to militant Islamist groups with pan-Asian aspirations, bloody ethnic vendettas, clan wars and banditry.
Politics and religion aside, much of the violence is fuelled by deep poverty rooted in decades of under-investment.
Muslim insurgent groups
- Moro National Liberation Front
- Moro Islamic Liberation Front
- Abu Sayyaf
- Jemaah Islamiah
- Communist insurgency
Major Events and Incidents
- Jabidah Massacre, March 18, 1968
- Tripoli Agreement, 1976
- ARMM Organic Act, August 01, 1989
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