<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/336724bf-d29c-4850-a27c-6b7dbfa0378f/425B072C-A50C-45BD-B03C-6C9AE23BA7F0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/9b245d556d222da5da1c3c3a2f8b6fb2.htm" href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/9b245d556d222da5da1c3c3a2f8b6fb2.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alertnet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/9b245d556d222da5da1c3c3a2f8b6fb2.htm">Members of the Philippines military, as well as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), have carried out large-scale human rights abuses, Amnesty International (AI) alleges. <P></P> Over the past year, about 750,000 people have been displaced by the conflict, and while many have returned to their ruined villages, up to 240,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are "still vulnerable to abuses"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/9b245d556d222da5da1c3c3a2f8b6fb2.htm">Both the MILF and members of the Philippine Army have been blamed for torching civilian houses, forcing tens of thousands to "live in fear and uncertainty in overcrowded camps, with their relatives or in makeshift shelters on roadsides". </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/9b245d556d222da5da1c3c3a2f8b6fb2.htm">"Disappearances" <P></P> Among the most serious findings was "an alarming number" of forced disappearances targeting civilians returning to their ruined hamlets to salvage crops and vegetables, she said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/9b245d556d222da5da1c3c3a2f8b6fb2.htm">soldiers had been told to "continue preserving the integrity of the republic and our laws. This situation is being addressed.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/425B072C-A50C-45BD-B03C-6C9AE23BA7F0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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