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11 years after peace pact, Muslim Mindanao is worse than ever

4 September 2007 No Comment

PCIJ: An increasing number of military engagements is not the only sign that the (GRP-MNLF) peace agreement is floundering. (Amina) Rasul reports that unemployment has worsened and development indicators are as bad in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) now as they were before the 1996 agreement. By failing to give the region the power and resources to improve the lives of Muslims, the central government, she says, has failed to make the negotiated peace really benefit them. Read the story

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