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Topic: Balabagan, Lanao del Sur


  
  The Provincial Profile of Lanao Del Sur
The province is bordered on the north by Lanao del Norte, on the east by Bukidnon and on the south by Maguindanao and North Cotabato.
The province of Lanao was born in 1914 with the organization of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu.
Lanao del Sur continued to be a stronghold of the MNLF until peace was signed in 1996.
www.geocities.com /lppsec/pp/lanaosur.htm   (1358 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Lanao del Sur
Lanao del Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Its capital is Marawi City and borders Lanao del Norte to the north, Bukidnon to the east, and Maguindanao and Cotabato to the south.
Ganassi is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, Philippines.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lanao-del-Sur   (1288 words)

  
 GlobalPinoy, Travel - Lanao del Sur
One of the four provinces of the ARMM region in Northern Mindanao is Lanao del Sur.
It is surrounded by the provinces of Lanao del Norte on the north, Bukidnon on the east, Illana Bay on the west and Cotabato and Maguindanao on the south.
Lake Lanao is known to be the deepest lake in the country and is surrounded by lush countryside-farming villages impregnated with rice and cornfields.
www.globalpinoy.com /travel/province/lanaosur.php   (838 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Balabagan, Lanao del Sur
Balabagan redirects here, for the Filipina prisoner and singer see Sarah Balabagan.
Balabagan is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, Philippines.
According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 24,558 people in 3,821 households.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Balabagan,_Lanao_del_Sur   (94 words)

  
 COMELEC Plebiscites Historical Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
New Municipality Bacungan, Zamboanga del Norte, from cerain barangays of Sindangan Zamboanga del Norte
New Bgy Inagasa, Lanao del Norte from Sition Allare, Bgy., Salvador, Municipality Salvador, Lanao del Norte
Cagamutan del Norte and Cagamutan del Sur in Gamay, Northern Samar
www.comelec.gov.ph /hist/pleb_80s.html   (1450 words)

  
 tfdp.org | Articles - Mindanao: Human Rights Amidst War - 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lanao del Norte: 1 incident (12 barangays affected)
Lanao del Norte: 5 incidents, 10 victims (all male)
The food blockade being implemented by the AFP in Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur during the height of the fighting have deprived thousands of consumers as well as producers of food.
www.tfdp.org /resources/ar_minda2000_1.htm   (3515 words)

  
 History of the Philippine Marine Corps
A Marine contingent rushed from its Headquarters in Maria Cristina, Baloi, Lanao del Norte to quell the uprising.
As such, 1MBDE was redeployed to Balabagan, Lanao del Sur to augment the beleaguered 3MBDE for the final clearing operations of Narciso Ramos Highway, resulting into the capture of Camp Sarmiento and Camp Bushra.
The 1st Marine Brigade and OPCON Marine units were deployed in Lanao del Sur while 3rd Marine Marine Brigade and OPCON Marine units were deployed in Maguindanao securing the stretch of Narciso Ramos Highway for the safety of all commuters passing through the highway.
www.philippinemarinecorps.mil.ph /pmchistory.html   (5639 words)

  
 Lanao del Sur - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bukidnon | Camiguin | Lanao del Norte | Misamis Occidental | Misamis Oriental
Agusan del Norte | Agusan del Sur | Surigao del Norte | Surigao del Sur
Basilan | Lanao del Sur | Maguindanao | Sulu | Tawi-Tawi
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Lanao_del_Sur   (171 words)

  
 G.R. No. 106053   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On the same date, petitioner, probably not aware of the death of his opponent, filed a motion to suspend the proclamation of Ogca as elected mayor of Balabagan, Lanao del Sur, contending that there was strong evidence of guilt against him in the disqualification case.
On July 1, 1992, the Election Registrar and Chairman of the Board of Canvassers of Balabagan, Lanao del Sur submitted a memorandum to the COMELEC informing it that the Board of Canvassers of Balabagan had proclaimed Ottomama Benito as mayor-elect of the said town.
The proclamation of petitioner Ottomama Benito as mayor-elect of Balabagan, Lanao del Sur, by the Municipal Board of Canvassers was not a valid proclamation.
www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1994/aug1994/gr_106053_1994.html   (1486 words)

  
 Dialogue Webpage for Conflicts Worldwide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Affected as a consequence were the towns of Malabang, Balabagan, Sultan Gumandar, Marogong and Kapatagan in Lanao del Sur; and the adjacent municipalities of Matanog, Barira, Buldon, Kabuntalan, Datu Piang, Sharif Aguak, SK Pendatun, Sultan Kudarat, Talayan, Parang, Datu Odin Sinsuat and Pagagawan in Maguindanao province.
Most of the affected families in Region XII are from Lanao del Norte, North Cotabato and Cotabato City.
This we saw in the towns of Marogong, Butig, Sultan Gumandar, Kapatagan, Calanugas, Masiu and Binedayan all in Lanao del Sur; and in Munai, Pantao Ragat and Matunggao in Lanao del Norte.
www.dwcw.org /cgi/wwwbbs.cgi?Mindanao&17   (1626 words)

  
 News Summaries on Selected Topics: War in Mindanao, May 2000
Ambiong, a native of Lanao del Sur who has been living in Quiapo for the past 20 years, said that there were no Abu Sayyaf or MILF members in the metropolis.
Emmanuel Teodosio, chief of the 1st Marine Brigade, who led the assault on Mt. Kabugaw from the Lanao del Sur side of the border, reported that Salamat's brother, who was in his early 40s, was an MILF battalion commander operating in the area.
It was ''merely a reaction'' to the initial attacks by the MILF in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, and in Ozamiz City, and the rebels' alleged bombing of barges in Mindanao.
www.philsol.nl /news/00/MindaWar3-may00.htm   (12722 words)

  
 Lanao Del Sur travel guide - Wikitravel
Lanao del Sur is a province in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), Mindanao, Philippines.
The word Lanao originated from the word ranao, which means "lake".
http://www.geocities.com/iligancity_ph/ Iligan used to be a tiny town of the undivided Lanao that stood northwest of Mindanao, 795 kilometers southeast of Metro Manila.
wikitravel.org /en/Lanao_Del_Sur   (987 words)

  
 Lanao del Sur towns try out a new recipe towards development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Even when Lanao was the hotbed of ethnic tensions, the village maintained its hospitable spirit.
After town leaders signed the peace covenants, dozens of "wishing balloons" were released to float high in the Kapatagan sky and the peace torch, kindled by a girl in Balabagan, blazed in midday.
The nine towns are: Malabang, Balabagan, Sultan Gumander in Lanao del Sur; and Matanog, Parang, Barira, Buldon and Datu Odin Sinsuat in Maguindanao.
www.cyberdyaryo.com /features/f2002_0710_02.htm   (1339 words)

  
 Manila Standard: The Future is Ours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sources said MILF chairman Salamat Hashim and Pentagon leader Tahir Alonto were among those returning to Lanao, which had been among the strongholds of the secessionists prior to the fall of Camp Abubakar.
Two MILF rebels were killed while another one was wounded in an encounter with government troops in Balabagan, Lanao del Sur on Monday afternoon.
Army troopers have been dispatched to pursue the rebels fleeing toward the mountainous areas in Balabagan, Lanao del Sur.
www.manilastandardonline.com:8080 /mnlastd?page=news03_feb19_2003   (556 words)

  
 Manila Standard: The Future is Ours
Sources said MILF chairman Salamat Hashim and Pentagon leader Tahir Alonto were among those returning to Lanao, which had been among the strongholds of the secessionists prior to the fall of Camp Abubakar.
Two MILF rebels were killed while another one was wounded in an encounter with government troops in Balabagan, Lanao del Sur on Monday afternoon.
Army troopers have been dispatched to pursue the rebels fleeing toward the mountainous areas in Balabagan, Lanao del Sur.
www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=news03_feb19_2003   (556 words)

  
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Since 1979 until his untimely death he worked in the predominantly Muslim province of Lanao Del Sur in Mindanao.
He was returning by motorcycle to his house in Malabang after attending an inter-religious meeting in the next town of Balabagan where he was once parish priest.
On his way he was flagged down by gunmen on a dirt road -Tuesday August 28th, at 5.00pm.
www.columban.com /rhobit.htm   (430 words)

  
 IBON Foundation, Inc. - News + Features > IBON Features > 2001 > Vol VI No. 24   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On a scorching afternoon of July 22, about 40 people were on board a truck of coconuts passing along a dusty road in Balabagan, Lanao del Sur.
The massacre in Balabagan came in the wake of the announcement by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that it will mobilize 10,000 additional CAFGUs, 7,000 of which will be deployed in Mindanao.
This means that some 24,000 paramilitary troopers are now stationed in Mindanao, particularly in former MILF camps and surrounding areas in Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte and Maguindanao.
www.ibon.org /news/if/00/24.htm   (1081 words)

  
 8 shot dead in Lanao Sur billiard parlor massacre - March 25, 2007
Senior Supt. Akmad Mamalinta, ARMM police chief, said the attack was apparently part of a “rido” (family feud) as a son of one of the assailants was killed in the same town last month.
I ordered the chief of police in Balabagan to file the necessary charges against the perpetrator,” he said.
Balabagan is a coastal town of about 30,000 farmers and fishermen.
news.inquirer.net /common/print.php?index=1&story_id=64647&site_id=36   (440 words)

  
 The Continuing Search for Sustainable Peace in Mindanao: A View from a Distance
Towards the end of April, as the armed conflict subsided in Lanao del Norte, the AFP was monitored starting to mass-up their forces at the foot of Camp Abubakar, the largest camp of the MILF in Matanog, Maguindanao.
As the war was raging in Lanao del Norte, particularly in Kauswagan town and its adjoining villages, a group of 60 members of the Al Haratul Islamiya, originally called the Abu Sayyaf, an extremist Muslim guerrilla group, attacked last March 20 an Army outpost in Basilan.
Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte, North Cotabato, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Davao del Sur, South Cotabato, Sarrangani, and Palawan.
www.philsol.nl /A00a/Minda-CSPEJ-chronology-jun00.htm   (8624 words)

  
 Mindanao Times News Online - Davao City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
ABOUT 20 heavily armed Muslim guerrillas in Lanao del Sur reportedly ambushed a truck transporting civilians, killing 13 people including three women and a 2-year-old boy, the military said yesterday.
Most of those reportedly killed in Balabagan, Lanao del Sur were Christians, said local Army spokesman Maj.
The attack was the second massacre in the province in a week blamed on the rebel group.
www.mindanaotimes.com.ph /news2000/july24/bloodshed.html   (303 words)

  
 Philippines
On March 17, an MILF attack on the town of Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, killed at least 29 noncombatants.
In November a radio journalist in Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur was killed by gunmen.
Most of the children were in villages in Maguinidanao, Lanao del Sur, and Tawi-Tawi provinces, the scene of heavy insurgent combat.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eap/index.cfm?docid=764   (13598 words)

  
 Driver of getaway vehicle for Halley killers nabbed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lumala Gunting, police director in Lanao del Sur, identified the driver as Abdul Samad Ibrahim, 25, a resident of barangay Upper Ilian in Balabagan.
Gunting said a case of kidnapping with murder was filed this morning at the municipal court in Malabang against Ibrahim and the six gunmen.
Halley, 57, parish priest of Malabang, Lanao del Sur, was gunned down by six armed men who flagged down his motorcycle in front of Dianaro Elementary School in Balabagan town.
www.cyberdyaryo.com /features/f2001_0831_02.htm   (528 words)

  
 yehey! News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The region comprises Tawi-Tawi, Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Sulu.
Failure of elections was declared in at least 10 barangays in Tuburan town, Basi­lan, because of reports that voting had taken place on the eve of election day.
Commissioner Resurrección Borra said 170 voters were at first not allowed to cast their ballots in Balabagan, Lanao del Sur.
www.yehey.com /news/print.aspx?a=127488   (569 words)

  
 MILF assails sending of more troops - Jul. 27, 2004
COTABATO CITY -- The separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front has accused the military of "over-reacting" by deploying hundreds of soldiers to the provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur since Sunday in the guise of thwarting a terrorist threat from the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group.
Kabalu said residents of Matanog town in Maguindanao, and the towns of Balabagan and Kapatagan in Lanao del Sur have expressed apprehension upon seeing "massive deployment of troops" that began early dawn of Sunday.
Major General Generoso Senga, chief of the Armed Forces's Southern Command, described the troop movement as a "routinary military patrol" to secure the periphery of Lanao and Maguindanao against possible terror plots after having received intelligence reports that suspected JI members were sighted in these areas.
www.inq7.net /reg/2004/jul/27/reg_6-1.htm   (370 words)

  
 Waterford news - Irish news, South east news, news from Waterford, news from Ireland.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Halley, a native of Killoteran, Butlerstown, was shot dead while riding his motorbike between neighbouring parishes on a dirt road in Malabang, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday, August 28, 2001.
The conflict between the Muslims and Christians, symbolised by the 'Ilaga' and the 'Barracuda', was headline news in the 70s.
In 1986, Rufus moved to the area known locally as Mala-bagan (the municipalities of Malabang and Balabagan) on Yllana Bay, Lanao del Sur.
www.munster-express.ie /030221/news9.htm   (693 words)

  
 Lanao del Sur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
To the southwest Illana Bay an arm of the Moro Gulf.
Found in the interior of Lanao Sur is Lanao Lake the largest lake Mindanao where the Maria Cristina Falls the waterfall in the country is located.
Avance De Informacion Economica : Indicadores Del Sector Manufacturero
www.freeglossary.com /Lanao_del_Sur   (106 words)

  
 Office of the Ombudsman - The Ombudsman Files Graft Charges Against Mayor, Treasurer for Refusal to Pay Vice Mayor's ...
In her complaint, Ogka Benito denied that she deliberately abandoned her post as alleged by the Sangguniang Bayan of Balabagan, for she is in fact holding office at her residence in order to avoid confrontation with the camp of Sampiano who is both her relative and political adversary.
Ogka Benito maintained that she had tried on several occasions to hold office at the Municipal Hall of Balabagan but was prevented from doing so by supporters of Sampiano and Ogka.
In a separate counter-affidavit, Balabagan municipal treasurer Macabato said that he could not release Ogka Benito’s salaries since she has not submitted the required vouchers or payrolls together with other supporting documents.
www.ombudsman.gov.ph /page.php?pid=297   (698 words)

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