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Article: Peace, at long last
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- The Filipino Express
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- September 1, 1996
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Leandro V. Coronel
Filipino Express, The
09-01-1996
Peace, at long last.
Mindanao is a place which has never known peace the way most people do. Its history over the last five centuries is replete with tales of bloody confrontations and violent deaths. The conflicts became an endless tale of a religious war between Christians and Muslims. At its height, the religious violence left more than 150,000 dead in the 1970s. No other place in the country has seen so much death outside of its experience during World War II.
Thanks to a peace agreement forged by Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chairman Nur Misuari, the violence and deaths that Mindanao has ...