Philippines' Aquino Misses Point on Mindanao
The Philippine Commander-in-Chief spoke to the nation on television three days after 44 of the national police’s Special Action Force were killed in central Mindanao after a 12-hour gunfight on Sunday morning, Jan. 25. Photos of the carnage shocked the country.
Muslim rebels stripped the dead of their uniforms and took away their arms, stealing whatever …
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