On Clashes and Conflicts
“The war in Mindanao has already cost many lives, as well as millions of pesos in government funds each day for ammunition and the sustenance of government troops. Over 300, 000 Mindanaoans have been displaced and now that the school year has started, school children have to share their classrooms with evacuees, while teachers remain apprehensive about teaching again. For its consequences alone, the Mindanao crisis is news, and has become the number one developing story of the last three months.”
- An exerpt from an article entitled “Media and the Mindanao Crisis” by the Philippine Journalism Review Research Staff, 2000 In the book of Rex T. Linao (2001) entitled ‘The peace paradigm of development: An agenda for Mindanaoans’, he tagged Mindanao as the land of lakes. Usually, places located near bodies of water are the ones which easily develop. This is true as for the early civilizations around the world during the middle ages. Development is faster in such places because different water formations are the primary sources of living in the early periods. In the case of Mindanao which has a lot of lakes and is surrounded by seas, the above assertion might not compromise with the current condition of the place.
Mindanao is an island which is rich with natural resources. Many land formations like mountains, volcanoes, plateaus, valleys and plains, and bodies of water like seas, lakes, rivers, streams and gulfs are naturally located in Mindanao. In fact, it can be seen here the highest peak in the Philippines, Mount Apo, and one of the longest rivers in the country, Rio del Grande. According to an entry in Wikipedia, Mindanao is the second largest island in the Philippine Archipelago. It is located at the south of the Philippine area. It is, as well, the eighth most populous island in the world. Mindanao is composed of 26 provinces – each composed of different people with different languages and culture. Of the three group of island in the Philippines – Luzon,
- An exerpt from an article entitled “Media and the Mindanao Crisis” by the Philippine Journalism Review Research Staff, 2000 In the book of Rex T. Linao (2001) entitled ‘The peace paradigm of development: An agenda for Mindanaoans’, he tagged Mindanao as the land of lakes. Usually, places located near bodies of water are the ones which easily develop. This is true as for the early civilizations around the world during the middle ages. Development is faster in such places because different water formations are the primary sources of living in the early periods. In the case of Mindanao which has a lot of lakes and is surrounded by seas, the above assertion might not compromise with the current condition of the place.
Mindanao is an island which is rich with natural resources. Many land formations like mountains, volcanoes, plateaus, valleys and plains, and bodies of water like seas, lakes, rivers, streams and gulfs are naturally located in Mindanao. In fact, it can be seen here the highest peak in the Philippines, Mount Apo, and one of the longest rivers in the country, Rio del Grande. According to an entry in Wikipedia, Mindanao is the second largest island in the Philippine Archipelago. It is located at the south of the Philippine area. It is, as well, the eighth most populous island in the world. Mindanao is composed of 26 provinces – each composed of different people with different languages and culture. Of the three group of island in the Philippines – Luzon,
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