War and Peace in Mindanao Murray Smith In December 2006 I had the chance to visit the island of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines. Mindanao and the surrounding islands rarely make the headlines except when some Western tourists are kidnapped. But Mindanao has been the scene of an ongoing conflict that has now lasted for more than 35 years‚ as the Muslim Bangsa Moro people have fought for self-determination. To date the conflict has claimed 120‚000 lives‚ many of them civilians. More than
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PEACE IN MINDANAO The peace process in Mindanao still needs a lot of work. The path to peace on the Bangsamoro sector. The establishment of compromising and reaching of the meeting of minds has been conducted. What I want to see is how this will all played out. It is one big step and a giant leaf to a very narrow treacherous process to surpass from but the president assures that it will be done or happen when our countrymen will be willing to help them in their quest for peace. The
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THE LUMADS OF MINDANAO The Lumad are a group of indigenous peoples of the Southern Mindanao‚ Philippines. Lumad is a Cebuano term meaning ‘native’ or ‘indigenous’. For more than two decades it has been used to refer to the groups indigenous to Mindanao who are neither Muslim nor Christian. The term is short for katawhang Lumad (literally “indigenous peoples”)‚ the autonym officially adopted by the delegates of the Lumad Mindanaw Peoples Federation (LMPF) founding assembly in June 26‚ 1986 at the
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External Analysis i. Macro Environment 1. Socio-Cultural Security issues in Mindanao AFI strictly implements a 30 days credit term to its customer beginning from the delivery date. However‚ with the recent business downturn in Mindanao partly due to the Abu Sayyaf hostage crisis‚ customers have been stretching these payment terms to 60 days. ii. Micro Environment 1. Industry Rivalry Mindanao market share In Mindanao‚ Neptune‚ AFI’s brand of bagoong alamang‚ is in tight rivalry with Lasap brand
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At no time in history had the issue of Mindanao independence been brought to a critical point as it is today. The issue had already been expressed as early as 1910 when the Zamboanga business sector presented a written petition to isolate the island for the development of "plantation interests". The same sentiment was aired in the written petition of Muslim datus‚ sultans‚ and leaders in 1930 when the question of Philippine independence from the United States elicited Muslim preference for exclusion
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Title: "Philippine helicopters fire rockets at Muslim rebels in Zamboanga siege." Date: Monday‚ September 16‚ 2013. Source: Internet - http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/world/asia/philippines-mindanao-unrest/index.html?hpt=wo_c2 How does the article relate to social studies/history? This article relates to the social studies discipline of world history. The article discusses about war‚ Muslim rebels and the Philippine military. The article also takes place in the Philippines which is a sovereign
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meaning "native" or "indigenous". It is adopted by a group of 15 from a more than 18 Mindanao ethnic groups in their Cotabato Congress in June 1986 to distinguish them from the other Mindanaons‚ Moro or Christian. Its usage was accepted during the Cory Administration when R.A. 6734‚ the word Lumad was used in Art. XIII sec. 8(2) to distinguish these ethnic communities from the Bangsa Moro. At present‚ Mindanao Lumads account for 2.1 million out of the total 6.5 million indigenous people nationally
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Is A Tender Thing (1st Draft) 17 September 2014 The Tender Truth Filmmaker Adjani Arumpac‚ a University of the Philippines Diliman BA Film graduate‚ simultaneously narrates the story of her broken family and the continuous war in Southern Mindanao in her 70-minute documentary film War Is A Tender Thing. The film mainly revolves on the issue of the conflict between Muslims and Christians and how the seemingly unending quest for peace and freedom affects the individual lives of these people
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the university of mindanao swith to an online enrollement system because it has a numerous of enrollee’s every semester and this will help speed up the process of enrolling for both new and old student’s. The University of Mindanao was established in 1946 and is one of the oldest universities in Southern Philippines. It is a non-sectarian school offering the most number of academic programs in this part of the country. It is located in Davao City. The University of Mindanao has 12 campuses and
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THE EVOLUTION OF SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES MEDICAL CENTER THEN… The Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City‚ way back in the year 1918‚ was just a Sick Ward set up by the District Engineer’s Office in Davao for the care and treatment of the sick laborers known as “SAKADAS”‚ who were then brought in to help the development of Davao. In 1919‚ by virtue of Special Act of the Philippine Legislature‚ which was passed in 1917‚ to establish a hospital in the non-Christian Provinces of which Davao
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