Philippines seeks peace with Muslim self-rule referendum

COTABATO, Philippines: A decades-long push to halt the violence that has claimed some 150,000 lives in the southern Philippines culminated yesterday with a vote on giving the nation’s Muslim minority greater control over the region. The poll is the final step in a peace deal with the Catholic-majority country’s largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro […]

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