Disenfranchisement, delayed opening of voting precincts mar Cotabato Bangsamoro plebiscite

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 04:25:55 +0000

Disenfranchisement, delayed opening of voting precincts mar Cotabato Bangsamoro plebiscite

Unarmed members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have been seen milling in front of almost all voting centers in the city.

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‘Vote, don’t be scared,’ Cotabato mayor tells people

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 03:18:25 +0000

'Vote, don't be scared,' Cotabato mayor tells people

The mayor of this city called on the people Monday to go out and vote despite harassment and grenade explosions that rocked the city on the eve of the plebiscite to ratify the law that will give the Moro Islamic Liberation Front full autonomy in the new Bangsamoro homeland.

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Tourism execs told: Counter blast fallout

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:16:21 +0000

Tourism execs told: Counter blast fallout

Tourism officials need to take extra steps to counter the fallout from the New Year’s Eve bombing in Cotabato City that has prompted countries like the United Kingdom and Australia to issue travel advisories on Mindanao

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Palace says travel alerts ‘natural’; asserts Mindanao travel ‘very safe’

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 06:55:20 +0000

Malacañang has said “it’s natural” for “any government” to issue travel warnings, insisting the Cotabato City blast was an “isolated case.”

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2 dead, scores wounded in Cotabato City mall blast

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:23:38 +0000

2 dead, scores wounded in Cotabato City mall blast

Suspected militants linked to Islamic State detonated a homemade bomb outside a shopping mall in the southern city of Cotabato on Monday, leaving two dead and dozens of civilians wounded, days before the holding of plebiscite for a law that will give Muslims full control over an autonomous homeland.

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3 men jump off truck before it plunges down 90-foot cliff

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 03:39:39 +0000

COTABATAO CITY, Philippines — Like a scene from an action movie, three men jumped off a truck shortly before it plunged off a 90-foot cliff in South Upi, Maguindanao on Sunday.

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