Posts Tagged ‘muslims

September 17, 2008 · Posted in: Image Galleries

Forced isolation

EXPECT the Muslim population in Metro Manila to swell every time the Bangsamoro conflict escalates down south. To escape the brutalities of war in Mindanao, many Muslims particularly flock to Quiapo, the heart of downtown Manila, where a sizable Muslim...

September 8, 2008 · Posted in: Governance, i Report Features, In the News

New names, old war

FOLLOWING the fallout over the bungled ancestral domain agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Arroyo government has disbanded its peace negotiating panel and announced a shift in its strategy of dealing with the Bangsamoro...

September 5, 2008 · Posted in: Image Galleries

Muslim Filipinos amid war

U.S.-based Filipino social documentary photographer Rick Rocamora contributes this series of photographs from his Balikbayan Visual Diary, a collection of photo essays and picture stories that he made while in the Philippines on assignment for U.S....