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Ruby Sison is waiting for someone to kill her. I met Sison a few months ago at a cemetery in Kidapawan, a town on the lawless Philippine island of Mindanao. We were paying our respects to the activists and journalists George and Maricel Vigo, who were shot dead in June in broad daylight by motorbike-riding assassins while returning home to their five children. The killers were still at large, and local reporters were braving multiple death threats by keeping the Vigo murders in the news. A friend and left-wing activist, Sison had heard that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Philippine Shame | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

...negotiated with Gaddafi to stop Libya's backing for the separatist Moro National Liberation Front in Mindanao. Gaddafi said to me: You're a good woman, why don't you become a Muslim? I said I didn't know Islam. He said Islam is kind, so I said, then don't let Mindanao separate from the Philippines. He said Islam is generous, so I said, then give us oil at a low, friendship price. I ended up getting eight concessions, including cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions: Imelda Marcos | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

...cell phone pointed to Abu Sayyaf, a roving band of al-Qaeda-linked terrorists and kidnappers operating in the restive south. Two days later a bombing by the New People's Army, which has been fighting for over 30 years to establish a communist state, wounded eight in eastern Mindanao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Needing To Get Tougher on Terror | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...antitank guns. Their easiest prey is the flotilla of fishing trawlers, ferries and small trading boats that ply the island waters. The booty includes everything from cargoes of fish to duty-free goods being trafficked in a centuries-old barter trade between East Malaysia and the Philippine island of Mindanao. 'The greed of the pirates is unbelievable,' says a Malaysian official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

...authorities in Manila are engaged in peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), the main group of Islamic insurgents on Mindanao. According to regional and Western security officials, parts of Mindanao, possibly outside the M.I.L.F's purview, serve as critical training and refuge areas for Islamic militants, primarily from Indonesia but also from Central Asia and the Middle East. On Friday, a M.I.L.F. spokesman told reporters that Dul Matin, an al-Qaeda-trained electronics expert suspected of playing a pivotal role in constructing the bombs for the 2002 Bali attacks, is on Mindanao, but not as a guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Terror's Trail | 10/10/2005 | See Source »

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