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“Sri Lankan Solution” Will Not Work in Mindanao

Initiatives for International Dialogue

October 2, 2009

in News

DAVAO CITY (1 October)- After more than 25 years of armed conflict, the civil war in Sri Lanka ended in May 2009.

The military victory of the Sri Lankan government over the rebel Tamil Tigers is now touted by hardliners and hawks as a model for resolving festering armed conflicts in the world. In fact, some government and military officials in the Philippines have been advocating the same “Sri Lanka solution” in ending the armed insurgencies in the country.

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Global Peacebuilders Offer to Help Revive Stalled Peace Process

Initiatives for International Dialogue

September 30, 2009

in News

The Global Partnership for the Prevention of the Armed Conflict (GPPAC), a global network of peacebuilders, is offering to join a body that is being set up to break the impasse in the peace process between the Philippine government (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and to also support and sustain it.

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Stop Disrespecting the Rights of Civilians

Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society

September 22, 2009

in Statements

We, the undersigned leaders of the Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society (CBCS), Inc., condemn the bad timing and indiscriminate way by which military operations were launched by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), particularly the Philippine Marines, in barangays Kagay, Marang, Bud Timahu, Laum Siang, all part of the municipality of Indanan, Sulu on September 20, 2009.

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UN pressed to act on evacuees’ plight

Jeoffrey Tupas, Philippine Daily Inquirer

September 22, 2009

in News

DAVAO CITY—A team of peace advocates from various parts of the world will visit war-torn areas in Mindanao, including Maguindanao, next week in a bid to press the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to respond to the plight of civilians displaced by fighting.

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