After 17 years of negotiations, the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have finally signed a comprehensive peace agreement, which promises to end more than four decades of brutal conflict in the southern Philippines.
Rebels from the Muslim minority population took up arms in the late 1960s to protest against land-grabbing and religious discrimination in this centralized and majority Christian country.
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