Still Searching For Peace

November 2006 | Ratings Update

The government is hoping to re-start stalled negotiations with the country's largest Islamic rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The group is considering a counter offer to a proposal by the government to expand the areas to be covered by the planned ancestral homeland for Muslims in the south. The authorities submitted a fresh initiative on November 9, after talks were stalled in June by disputes over the size of the proposed homeland. MILF wants to add more than 1,000 villages to the existing five-province Muslim autonomous region, most of which are far from the existing region and

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