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11-24-2009 - Maguindanao, Philippines: |
 GRIM UNDER. Policemen carry from a mass grave the body of one of those who perished in the Nov. 23 Maguindanao killings. Photo by Rommel G Rebollido | Cebu City, Philippines,November 24, 2009 On Monday, November 23,2009, a group of at least 20 Filipino journalists in Maguindanao, central Mindanao, Philippines, joined a convoi led by the wife and family members of local politician Ismail Mangudadatu. Jenalyn Tiamson-Mangudadatu was about to file her husbands candidacy for governorship in the upcoming 2010 elections. 24 hours later the Philippine National Police retrieves 35 bodies from shallow mass graves near the highway. Among the dead Mangudadatus two sisters, two lawyers and at least 12 journalists. The search for further bodies is continuing, there were no survivers found. |
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07-25-2009 - Maguindanao Bakwit Power, Mindanao / Philippines |
   | | MAGUINDANAO - The first anniversary is nearing of the failure of the peace talks between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in August 2008. The break down of negotiations had led to renewed fighting among the MILF and the Philippine Army. While neither the Philippine Government nor the MILF have shown serious efforts to renew their negotiations, the people in Maguindanao once more raise their voices to call for an end to the war. Among them those who are most affected by the fighting, the “Bakwits”, the Internally Displaced People of whom many still live in camps, often under poorest conditions. PECOJON reporter Richel Umel documents Maguindanaos Bakwit Power. (To see all pictures please enter via the “read more” button) |
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07-08-2009 - State of the Bakwits, Mindanao / Philippines |
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| DATU PIANG, Maguindanao - Ten months after hostilites broke out in Central Mindanao, many internally displaced persons are still living in evacuation camps like the one in Datu Piang town, Maguindanao, where conditions are so appalling that aid agencies warned of an impending humanitarian crises.
Photos by Froilan Gallardo give a first impression of the findings of the "State of the Bakwits" joined coverage in Maguindanao, Central Mindanao, Philippines.
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