Philippines Violence

16,000 People Flee As Troops And Guerrillas Clash In The Philippines

AP | JIM GOMEZ | Posted 12.25.2011

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MANILA, Philippines — More than 16,000 people have fled from four southern Philippine towns where government troops have been battling Muslim gu...

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Kidnapping And Torture Victims Seek Justice On Day Of The Disappeared

HuffingtonPost.com | Jorge Luis Macias | Posted 10.31.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- In May 2009, Filipino-American Melissa Roxas was allegedly beaten, kidnapped and tortured by unidentified members of the army in her na...

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Death Toll Rises In Philippines Massacre

AP | AARON FAVILA and JIM GOMEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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AMPATUAN, Philippines — A scion of a powerful clan suspected in the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan in the southern Philippines tur...

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Philippines Declares Emergency After 46 Killed

AP | AARON FAVILA | Posted 05.25.2011

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AMPATUAN, Philippines — A few miles (kilometers) off the main highway, on a remote hilltop covered with waist-high grass, bodies lay with twiste...

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