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...Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, a former Filipino Islamic scholar who battled the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, founded the fundamentalist Abu Sayyaf in 1991, splitting from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) - a more mainstream Islamic political organization fighting for increased autonomy for Muslims in the southern Philippines - after the MNLF engaged in peace talks with the government...
...photojournalism by capturing one of the most indelible and traumatic images in modern Italian history. On May 9, 1978, Giansanti, then 21 and working for the Sygma photo agency, rushed to the scene in the center of historic Rome, on the Via Michelangelo Caetani, when the body of Aldo Moro was found in the trunk of a Renault, looking as if he were asleep but the victim of a cruel murder. The five time premier of Italy had been kidnapped by the radicals of the Red Brigade and, after 54 days in captivity, executed with 11 gunshots to his heart...
...last month's separatist fighting in the island's north, which left dozens of civilians dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Mindanao, long home to a simmering insurgency, exploded into violence in August after the country's Supreme Court halted an agreement between government negotiators and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that would have set boundaries for a semi-autonomous Muslim homeland. In apparent frustration with the stalled negotiations, two rogue MILF commanders have been accused of leading their fighters on a murderous rampage in two nearby provinces...
Only a few weeks ago, the decades-long conflict between the government and separatist fighters seemed to be inching toward a political solution. On Aug. 4, negotiators for the Philippine government and the main insurgent group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), struck an agreement that would have set boundaries for an autonomous Muslim homeland, and, hopefully, dampened the insurgency. Yet, as has happened so often before in Mindanao, the center did not hold. After a challenge by Christian leaders in the minority-Muslim region who objected to the inclusion of some villages in the proposed Muslim area, the Philippines...
...Family Values The lush jungle-covered hills and sapphire-blue seas of the southern Philippines look serene, but the region is a battleground where the MILF and its parent group, the Moro National Liberation Front, have long waged bloody struggles for independence. In the mid-1990s the MNLF brokered a deal with the government to share power in areas of Sulu, 900 km south of Manila. The MILF has been in sporadic peace talks over its claim for territory in the south, but a clash with government troops last year left 14 marines dead, 10 of them beheaded. Ranging across...