It has been almost a year since fighting broke out between government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front after the Supreme Court struck down the Memorandum Agreement on Ancestral Domain. While the story of the continued fighting still makes headlines, the story of the refugees who fled the fighting has been dropped from the frontpages and the line-ups of the major newscasts. Recently, a group of journalists travelled to Mindanao to chronicle the plight of the refugees and to remind the public of the people it has so easily forgotten. Photos and narration by Nonoy Espina.

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The Daily PCIJ » Blog Archive » AI urges PGMA to leave positive human rights legacy

July 25th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

[…] Council and Karapatan underscore the continuing problem of extra-judicial killings. Meanwhile, the conditions of refugees in war-torn Mindanao remain miserable as fighting […]

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