Something big has to be coming down real soon, folks.
You can SMELL IT!!!
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MANILA — The number of Filipinos displaced from their homes since fighting began late last week between government forces and Islamic separatists in the southern Philippines reached 130,000 on Monday, officials said. The military and the police sent more troops to fight the rebels.
Social welfare officials warned of a potential humanitarian disaster as the fighting between troops and elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which had been confined to two provinces, threatened to spill over to other areas. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is a separatist group that has been fighting for an Islamic state in the southern province of Mindanao for decades.
Local media reported that thousands of residents, the majority of them Muslims, had been fleeing their homes since Friday, many in carts pulled by water buffalos. Thousands of refugees had been housed in more than 40 refugee centers, officials said, but most of them had chosen to leave their communities and seek shelter with relatives in other provinces.
Two days earlier, the Philippine Supreme Court ruled in favor of a petition that prevented the government and the rebel group from signing an agreement that both sides had thought could help end the decades-old separatist war.
And CUI BONO? GOVERNMENT and "War on Terror" people, right?
Eid Kabalu, a spokesman for the rebels, blamed government-backed civilian militias for the conflict. He said the front had wanted to “reposition its forces” but were attacked by the militias opposed to the peace agreement.
The renewed fighting coincided with elections on Monday in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. In the past, elections in the region had proven to be violent but officials said the latest voting passed off peacefully, although sporadic violence was reported, including the bombing of electric towers in one province.
Another CUI BONO moment!
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