Related: Philippines
Give it a scroll and you will see the Globe's receding coverage. Glad to know everything is back to normal over there and pneumonia no longer a concern. At least the U.S. and Britain were able to move warships into the region.
Now back to the s***-shoveling agenda of Islamic extremism:
"Philippine government, rebels sign power-sharing accord" Associated Press, December 10, 2013
MANILA — Philippine officials have signed a power-sharing accord with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group and expect to sign a final pact with the insurgents next month to end a decades-long rebellion in the volatile south.
I'm always for peace settlements, folks.
The accord, which outlines the powers of a Muslim autonomous government in a region to be called Bangsamoro, was signed on Sunday by negotiators for the government and the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Malaysia, which has been brokering the talks, officials said Monday.
The accord is the third of four proposed pacts that are to constitute a final peace agreement between the government and the Moro guerrillas.
The insurgents have been fighting for self-rule for minority Muslims in the south of the predominantly Roman Catholic nation in an insurgency that has left thousands of combatants and civilians dead and held back progress in some of the country’s poorest regions.
President Benigno Aquino III said the remaining accord to be tackled next month, involving rebel disarmament, is expected to be difficult because it entails the insurgents relinquishing their arms.
And when have CIA-supported insurgencies ever done that?
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