The Philippine government's 35-year confrontation with Muslim
separatists on the southern island of Mindanao and a second conflict
with communist insurgents across the country have caused 160,000
deaths and displaced up to 2 million people.

120,000 still uprooted by fighting
More than 35 percent of population live in poverty
Mindanao situation attracts Islamic extremists
The Mindanao conflict first flared in the 1960s when the Muslim
minority - known as the Moros - launched an armed struggle for their
ancestral homeland in the south.

But over the years, the Moro campaign for self-rule has become only
one of several sources of bloodshed on Mindanao. These include a
long Maoist insurgency, violence linked to militant Islamist groups with
pan-Asian aspirations, bloody ethnic vendettas, clan wars and
banditry.


LONG-RUNNING MUSLIM AND COMMUNIST INSURGENCIES

While the two largest rebel groups have agreed, or are negotiating,
peace deals with the government, the Mindanao region remains a
melting pot of breakaway rebel groups, pan-Asian militant Islamist
groups and communist rebels rubbing shoulders with mercenary
kidnap groups and clan militias.

As a result, regular eruptions of violence have forced hundreds of
thousands of residents from their homes. Many return fairly quickly,
only to be displaced again. In total, the various conflicts in Mindanao
have displaced up to 2 million people since 1970.

Together, the Moro and communist insurgencies - two of the world's
longest-running conflicts - have killed at least 160,000 people.
-Reuters 2007
Civil and Religious unrest in Mindanao
Capital: Manila
Population: 86.7 Million (2007) DESA
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Climate description:Tropical. Rainy
season from July to October; cool and
dry from November to February; hot
and mainly dry from March to June;
occasional typhoons between July and
October.
Currency: Peso
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