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| | Asiaweek.com | From Our Correspondent | Showdown in the South | 7/18/2000 |
 | | On Sunday, July 16, inside a mosque in a remote farming village in Bumbaran town, Lanao del Sur province, 21 Christians were massacred by nearly 500 armed men. |
 | | From 1995 to 1999, he says, MILF strength grew from 8,270 men to 15,600, and from 8,020 firearms to 11,280 -- annual expansion rates of 21% and 18% respectively. |
 | | The guerrillas are concentrated in eight provinces: Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, North Cotabato, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, Davao, South Cotabato, and Zamboanga del Sur. |
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