Word: mindanao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening prayers, the cloistered silence of the hilltop Carmelite convent in Marawi City was shattered by shouts and shrieks. Thirteen armed men barged in and took ten Filipino nuns hostage. Less than 24 hours later, another group of men grabbed Brian Lawrence, an American Protestant missionary living at the Mindanao State University near the Carmelite convent...
...confronted with another potentially dangerous crisis. The motives behind last week's snatchings were muddled in the curious combination of banditry and political activism that has turned kidnaping into a minor industry in the predominantly Muslim province of Lanao del Sur in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao...
...assassination produced a sharp increase in the size and intensity of Communist guerrilla activity by the military organization called the New People's Army. Though the insurgency is concentrated on Mindanao and some other southern islands, it spread after the Aquino assassination to 60 of the country's 74 provinces. In addition, the killing of Aquino created a nationwide crisis of confidence that caused the already stagnant economy to spiral downward, even as most other Southeast Asian nations were prospering. After the assassination, says an American official, "all these concerns took a quantum leap...
Coming from a seasoned campaigner with a reputation for masterly verbal pyrotechnics, the words seemed slightly absurd. "God is with us!" President Ferdinand Marcos declared before a crowd of 50,000 in Davao on the southern island of Mindanao. "God knows that to protect the Filipino people, (we) must...
Reporting one of the worst incidents, the official Philippine News Agency said communist rebels ambushed an army tank escorting election officials carrying ballot boxes on a road in northern Mindanao, 500 miles south of Manila. The agency report said four attackers were killed and several wounded when the tank returned fire. There were no other casualties, the report said...