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| Philippine Muslims to create thier own government |
| 2014-09-12 |
| [ABNA.IR] The president of the majority Christian Philippines proposed Wednesday to give Moslems in the south the ability to run their own government under their own flag, part of a peace plan aimed at ending a four-decade rebellion that has killed 150,000 people. The draft law submitted by President Benigno Aquino III to Congress fleshes out a peace deal signed in March by the country's largest Moslem gang, the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The autonomous region in the southern island of Mindanao, to be called Bangsamoro, would get its own 60-member parliament that would wield exclusive power over such areas as agriculture, trade, tourism and education. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Cancer must be destroyed not contained. Otherwise, eventually, it will spread. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-09-12 15:55 |
| #1 part of a peace plan aimed at ending a four-decade rebellion that has killed 150,000 people. If they actually think this will bring peace - they are pretty ignorant of 1,400 years of Islamic history. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-09-12 08:25 |