1. Al Jacinto is a Mindanao publisher and political analyst.

2. The armed conflict in Mindanao is not merely a war among armed groups, but a war against women, a war that women do not want.

3. Mindanao is racked by insurgencies, from the semi-respectable—the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is engaged in peace talks—to the outright criminal, such as Abu Sayyaf in its present form.

4. But a greater distraction from the campaign in Mindanao is the persistence of another, far broader insurgency.

5. A city of southeast Mindanao, Philippines, on Davao Gulf, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Davao is a major port and commercial center. Population, 270, 600.

6. In some parts of the Philippines, such as Mindanao, hostage taking is not an uncommon occurrence, so the country has some forces that are well trained in the necessary tactics.

7. Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency for parts of the southern island of Mindanao on Tuesday, after a political massacre there left at least 46 people dead.

8. In 1971, a Philippine government minister (Manuel Elizalde) discovered a small stone age tribe living in isolation on the island of Mindanao.

9. They include Akira Makino, a former doctor who in 2006 said he had been ordered to conduct experiments on condemned men while stationed on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

10. At a recent forum in Davao City, also on Mindanao Island, sixty women banded together and made demands to the government.

11. Four huge disasters struck Asia in 2008, plus the ongoing war in Mindanao.

12. An island of the east-central Philippines in the Visayan group north of Mindanao. It was discovered in 52 by Ferdinand Magellan.

13. Mylyn, a 38-year-old mother of two(), remembers leaving her village in central Mindanao. "They torched a house.

14. Laden with bamboo and workers, a converted World War II U.S. Army jeep carries its load out of the mountains near Tangub, on the island of Mindanao.

15. An island of the east-central Philippines in the Visayan group north of Mindanao. It was discovered in1521 by Ferdinand Magellan.

16. Members of both groups have found sanctuary with the MILF and a haven on Mindanao.

17. General Benjamin Dolorfino of the AFP boasts the group can no longer stage attacks on Mindanao itself.

18. But research has now been delayed by at least six months, according to Eufemio Rasco Jr, lead researcher at the University of the Philippines Mindanao.

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19. High school enrollment rates were approximately 56% nationwide but were lower in Mindanao and in Eastern Visayas region.

20. The floods have left 20,000 persons homeless and washed away over 1,000 houses on Mindanao Island.

21. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf) said the plan was "unacceptable" and would not give the southern region of Mindanao enough autonomy.