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Members of Lakas-Kampi-CMD, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo listed Andal Sr. as a major ally in Mindanao. Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) regional governor Zaldy Ampatuan was the party's regional chairman. Andal Sr., the family patriarch, had been provincial governor since 1998; he had been elected three times, unopposed.
The Moro conflict [38] [39] [40] was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines which involved multiple armed groups. [41] [30] A decades-long peace process [38] [42] has resulted in peace deals between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) [43] and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), [44] but other smaller armed ...
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF; Arabic: جبهة تحرير مورو الإسلامية, romanized: Jabhat Taḥrīr Moro al-ʾIslāmiyyah) is an Islamist group based in Mindanao, Philippines, which sought an autonomous region of the Moro people from the central government. [2]
A referendum was held on each province to be included in the autonomous region. Decades after the government's resettlement of un-landed settlers in Moro Ancestral Lands in Mindanao, the Moros became the minority in their own homeland. The referendums however did influence Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao by creating its predecessors. MNLF ...
Reuben Canoy, leader of the Mindanao People's Democratic Movement and former presidential candidate had an averted plan to declare the Federal Republic of Mindanao in 1986. [10] [11] Four years later, the 1990 Mindanao crisis arose where Col. Alexander Noble led a mutiny and proclaimed an independent Federal Republic of Mindanao. [12]
Mindanao (/ ˌ m ɪ n d ə ˈ n aʊ / ⓘ MIN-də-NOW) is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of the same name that also includes its adjacent islands, notably the Sulu Archipelago.
The 2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front was a military campaign conducted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against a Muslim secessionist group that took place during the presidency of Joseph Estrada in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines.
The majority of the Moro people have historically resided in what is now called the Bangsamoro region, which was known as Muslim Mindanao in 1989 when the ARMM was created. That land is located in the provinces of Basilan , Cotabato , Davao de Oro , Davao del Sur , Lanao del Norte , Lanao del Sur , Maguindanao del Norte , Maguindanao del Sur ...