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Country Report. Philippines. The southern Philippines , long considered a safe haven for al Qaeda affiliates, has relapsed into violence after a U.S.-backed peace deal between the government and a rebel Islamic militant group collapsed.

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Country Report

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  1. CountryReport Philippines

  2. The southern Philippines, long considered a safe haven for al Qaeda affiliates, has relapsed into violence after a U.S.-backed peace deal between the government and a rebel Islamic militant group collapsed.

  3. The renewal of the decades-old conflict has prompted fears that the Muslims of the island of Mindanao, the Bangsamoro or "Moros," could align with extremists and the area could become a breeding ground for international terror groups.

  4. "The religious and cultural affinities Moros share with the Islamic world could provide new entree for extremist elements willing to use violence in pursuit of their, if not wholly Moro, goals,"

  5. when the country's Supreme Court rejected the peace deal as unconstitutional, attacks by rogue members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) - followed by counterattacks by the Philippine army - have displaced nearly half a million people and left dozens dead. Eight Moro insurgents and six soldiers have died in recent weeks.

  6. The Malaysian-brokered peace agreement, called the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, was signed by the Philippine government and the MILF. It would have given control of about 700 additional towns and villages on Mindanao to the Moros, southern Filipino Muslims who have limited self-government in the country's southern islands, which lie close to Indonesia and Malaysia.

  7. However, the Philippine Supreme Court saw the agreement as violating the territorial integrity of the Philippines and compounding secession fears. The court, on a vote of 8-7, labeled the agreement a violation of the constitution

  8. "The furtive process by which the [deal] was designed and crafted runs contrary to and in excess of the legal authority, and amounts to a whimsical, capricious, oppressive, arbitrary and despotic exercise thereof," the court said in its ruling.

  9. After the announcement, MILF spokesman MohagherIqbal lamented the ruling, saying it would "feed those who oppose the peace talks" within the organization. Jun Muntawil, a member of the Moro negotiating team, told The Washington Times that the court decision "adds to age-old mistrust between the Filipino people and the Bangsamoro people."

  10. "The neocolonial government is not worth talking to, for it always betrayed its commitment to the peace process,”

  11. Violence in Philippines sparks terrorism Fighting under various acronyms, Moros have confronted the Philippine army in Mindanao since the 1960s, but resistance to non-Moro rule goes back even further.

  12. Political and Strategic Background Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish-American War in 1898, Spain ceded the Philippines to the U.S. The nation was under American administration until the Japanese took control during World War II. In 1946, the Philippines became an independent representative democracy.

  13. From 1946 to 1992, the U.S. maintained air and naval bases in the Philippines. They were closed at the request of the Philippine government in 1992. In 1952, the two nations forged the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and in 1998, they concluded the Visiting Forces Agreement, paving the way for increased military cooperation. The U.S. conducts ship visits to Philippine ports and engages in military exercises with Philippine forces. In May 2003,President Bush announced that the U.S.would designate the Philippines as a major non-NATO ally.

  14. The Philippines receives various forms of U.S. military assistance. The International Military Education and Training (IMET) program, $2.4 million in FY 2003, was the largest in Asia and the second largest in the world. The Philippines is the number one recipient in Asia of Excess Defense Articles from the U.S. military. The U.S. and the Philippines also maintain strong trade ties. The Philippines ranks as America's 19th-largest export market and 20th-largest supplier. The U.S. is the Philippines' largest foreign investor.

  15. Different Groups in the Philippines • Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) • Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) • New People's Army (NPA)

  16. Philippines political violence The Philippines, in south-east Asia, is the world's second-largest archipelago, with 100 million people.

  17. The group was seized on the island of Mindanao by armed men as they tried to file nomination papers for a candidate in local elections. More members of the group are missing, feared dead. Elections in the Philippines are often marred by violence, particularly in the south, where clashes connected to local rivalries and insurgencies erupt. The country is to hold nationwide elections. Registration for local and national races began earlier as its schedule

  18. Clan leader According to local reports, the group was abducted early while on its way to an election office in Maguindanao province to file nomination papers for a local mayor, IsmaelMangudadatu. MrMangudadatu was reportedly planning to challenge local clan leader DatuAndalAmpatuan for the governor's office in the mainly Muslim province. He was not part of the group but his wife, lawyers, aides and journalists were among those abducted when their three-vehicle convoy was attacked. Lt Col Romeo Brawner, a spokesman for the Philippines armed forces, told the military had recovered 21 bodies, 13 female and eight male. "Some of them have been mutilated - there are signs of mutilation. However there are also reports of beheading, According to reports, the group that set off numbered between 30 and 40 people in total. It is not clear whether anyone survived the attack. it was believed more bodies had been buried, and trying to locate them. It appeared the violence was linked to local political tensions,

  19. Every local politician has some form of personal security which, in some areas, balloons to private armies of scores or hundreds of well-armed, unregulated gunmen. In this case, the Mangudadatu and Ampatuan clans were not always at war - but the Mangudadatu family's bid to run for governor appears to have provoked a dramatic rise in tension. It remains unclear who was responsible, but these killings are unusual for including women and journalists. At this stage the violence does not appear to be related to the broader Muslim insurgencies in Mindanao geared toward securing more autonomy from the central government. Power and money - control over lucrative local interests - seem the most likely motives.

  20. Philippines Hostage Crisis

  21. Rolando Mendoza, a police officer fired from his job, was armed with an automatic rifle when he seized a bus in Manila, Philippines, with 25 people aboard, mostly Hong Kong tourists, in a bid to demand his reinstatement. The gunman and seven hostages were killed. According to newspaper reports, the former senior inspector was among five officers who had been charged with robbery, extortion and grave threats after a Manila hotel chef filed a complaint alleging they falsely accused him of using drugs to extort money. Mendoza was fired last year but claimed he was innocent.

  22. With the bus parked on a Manila park parade ground, Mendoza stuck leaflets on windows, handwritten in English, saying "big mistake to correct a big wrong decision," demanding media attention and threatening "big deal will start after 3 p.m. today." At first, matters proceeded peacefully. The hijacker freed nine hostages — three women, three children and two men — leaving 15 tourists on board. Police sealed the area and brought food for the hostages, along with fuel to keep the bus' air conditioning running in the 32-degree-Celsius (90 F) heat.

  23. Relatives mourning dead Hong Kong hostage

  24. Philippine Airlines reported that about 558 people from Hong Kong and China have cancelled their bookings to Manila. This is due the recent hostage crisis which happened last august 23, 2010 “PAL is beginning to feel the initial impact of a Hong Kong government ...

  25. In a press release posted by the Hong Kong government on its website, people from Hong Kong are now warned against traveling to the Philippines. The country is now labeled as 'Severe Threat' in code: black. The warning on the Outbound Travel Alert System, it says: "Serious kidnap incident happened in the Philippines, residents should avoid ...

  26. Urban displacement in the Philippines As part of its Resettlement and Development Review, the Bank commissioned a report from Philippines NGO Urban Poor Associates which severely criticized the Bank's operations in Metro Manila and the adjacent provinces of Rizal and Bulacan. 36,767 people are currently threatened with eviction in this area. "No clear resettlement or resources for compensation are being set in place"S for the 19,680 persons who will be displaced in the Metro Manila area within the next year. Of 745 people evicted by the Bank's water supply and road network projects in Bulacan and Metro Manila "[a] majority of the oustees had no compensation."

  27. The Philippine report found that people are often not informed or consulted about their impending eviction. The $363 million Angat Water Supply Optimization Project (AWSOP), co-funded by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, will evict over 19,000 people. Yet affected people only learned of their imminent eviction when they saw surveyors in their community. The report records that: "During the survey [for AWSOPUs Aqueduct 4] the residents asked the surveyor what the survey was about, the answer they got was "We are simply doing a listing." Also, recently, groups of foreigners with Filipinos had visited the neighbourhood taking photographs of the site. When approached by the leaders, who inquired on the purpose for the photographs the visitors responded with vague answers and hurriedly moved on leaving the residents bewildered. According to one resident, "We were simply told to leave the area. After one month, the people of the DMCI [the contractor] returned and bulldozed dwellings. For a month, we had to spend time scrounging around for materials because most of the materials of house were destroyed during the demolition. children and husband had to spend many days away from work to rebuild house."

  28. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES 2010 Population = almost a 100,000,000 Form of Government = Democratic Presidential Religion = 85% Roman Catholic, the rest divided into different faith, Islam, protestant and others. Branches of Government = Executive, Legislative and Judiciary Language = Filipino , Spoke English and other Ethnic dialect Literacy = 96 % Literary Geographical Area: 300,000 SQ.KM

  29. 2nd Part of the Report will be given to us by: TERMIZY ABDULLAH

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