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	Cotabato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cotabato, formerly North Cotabato, is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the SOCCSKSARGEN region in Mindanao.
		Cotabato is subdivided into 17 municipalities and 1 city.
		The native Maguindanaon of Cotabato province have a fascinating culture that revolves around kulintang music, a specific type of gong music, found among both Muslim and non-Muslim groups of the Southern Philippines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cotabato_province (250 words)

	US-led antiterrorism training set to start - Jul. 09, 2004
		COTABATO CITY -- It's all systems go for the staging of the joint RP-US military exercise scheduled this month in Carmen, North Cotabato, which according to military and civilian authorities would be "brief" and "purely training on antiterrorism."
		Some residents of North Cotabato and those from nearby provinces have expressed apprehension that the exercise might lead to clashes between troops, communist and Moro rebels.
		North Cotabato, bounded by the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Sultan Kudarat and Davao del Sur, is sparsely inhabited by the communist New People's Army and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front, suspected of coddling the Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian terror group allied with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2004/jul/09/reg_2-1.htm (474 words)

	People's caravan and march vs US troops
		Kidapawan City is three towns away from Carmen, and in each town there are at least two to three checkpoints manned by local police and elements of the 602nd Brigade.
		On the bridge that connects Kabakan and Carmen, the organizers decided to march towards the bridge as the military tried to stop the caravan.
		Residents of Manarapan village in Carmen participate in the protest rally in front of the Carmen municipal hall.
	www.arkibongbayan.org /2006-01Jan18-MoroVsUS/vsUStroopsMore.htm (620 words)

	Calls mount to move war games out of Cotabato - Jul. 12, 2004
		COTABATO CITY-With the joint US-led military exercises set to begin later this week in Carmen, North Cotabato, calls are mounting for the scrapping of the antiterrorism training of Philippine soldiers by American troops in the area.
		The anti-terror training would be held outside the Army's 602nd Infantry Brigade headquarters in Carmen which is near an MILF-influenced area in the town.
		North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel Piñol, however, allayed fears the so-called "mini-balikatan" would trigger another armed conflict in the province.
	www.inq7.net /nat/2004/jul/12/nat_6-1.htm (748 words)

	Balita - Linking Filipinos worldwide with news since 1994
		Overwhelmed by the flourishing success of Carmen, North Cotabato in rising to a first-class municipality from a sixth-class town, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo made the area an paradigm for her ongoing “Water for the Waterless (WW)” program across the country.
		Carmen, a former war torn area, is the site of the P2-billion Malitubog-Maridagao Irrigation Project (MMIP), which took more than 12 years to build due to incessant fighting between military and Moro rebel forces.
		Carmen is rich in rubber, oil palm, banana, rice and corn, fruit trees, and other industrial crops.
	news.balita.ph /html/article.php/20051117123440318 (965 words)

	eBalita - a FREE service that provides you the latest news from the Philippines through the Web and E-mail
		It was in Carmen that the Ilaga (meaning "rat"), a vigilante group which the military used in its campaign against Muslim secessionists in the 1970s, first gained notoriety by killing some 50 Muslims while performing their Friday prayers inside a mosque.
		Bala recounted that his hands were tied and he was beaten up in a secluded stretch of a farm-to-market road in Barangay Liliongan on suspicions that he was a member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
		In 2000, a group of MILF rebels, led by Pakil Ayunan, raided Barangay Cadiis in Carmen, blocked a portion of the North Cotabato-Bukidnon Highway, herded 16 Christian residents into one spot and executed them using automatic rifles.
	www.ebalita.net /go/news/news.php?id=1175 (746 words)

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		Carmen, the group said, is strategically located in Central Mindanao that "any conflict that will occur there can easily spread to Pikit, Buliok, Lanao and Maguindanao areas." The MILF has a strong presence in these areas.
		The evacuees, who were displaced in the all-out war in 2000 and in the Buliok war in 2003, have just returned home to rebuild their communities, MPC said.
		It also said that international humanitarian agencies are not even half-way in their rehabilitation program for the war affected communities and that the parties in conflict, including the ceasefire committee, have been working very hard to maintain the ceasefire on the ground, and Malaysia is poised to deploy the ceasefire international monitoring team.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2004/07/17/PROV2004071714228.html (583 words)

	Office of the President Website - Newsroom
		CARMEN, North Cotabato – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed the hope today that the country can one day finance infrastructure and social services without resorting to foreign loans or grants.
		The President made the remarks during the inaugural rites for the P60 million new municipal building and 49th Foundation Anniversary of this town, coinciding with the 55th birthday celebration of Carmen Mayor Rogelio Taliño.
		The President congratulated Mayor Taliño and the whole city council for bringing development in Carmen, a former sixth class municipality which has now emerged as a first class town under the present leadership.
	www.op.gov.ph /news.asp?newsid=13797 (609 words)

	House of Representatives - House Members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		LALA Taliño-Santos was born on February 25, 1972 in Makilala, Cotabato.
		She is the daughter of Mayor Rogelio Taliño of Carmen, Cotabato and businesswoman Noemi Jacolo Taliño.
		While in college and before she was elected as Representative of the 1st district of North Cotabato, she has served as SK Municipal Federation President and Ex-Officio Member of the Provincial Government of Cotabato (1993-1996) and as Senior Board Member of her district's Sanguniang Panlalawigan (1998-2001).
	www.congress.gov.ph /members/print_about.php?id=talino (138 words)

	Manila Bulletin Online
		CARMEN, North Cotabato â” Bayan Muna Rep. Joel Virador on Thursday, January 19, slammed elements of the Philippine National Police (PNP) for repeatedly blocking vehicles that joined the antiBalikatan Inter-regional Peopleâs Caravan last Tuesday.
		Virador said the lawmen tried their utmost in preventing the protesters from driving around Carmen, North Cotabato in protest against US soldiers participating in the military exercise in Central Mindanao.
		The Inter-regional Peopleâs Caravan, a 5,000strong delegation from key regions in Mindanao, trooped to Carmen to oppose the holding of the exercises in the area.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2006/01/21/PROV2006012154357.html (327 words)

	About Culture and Arts
		In the span of long years with a chain of settlement in the highlands of Pulangi, Apo Tabunawai settled in Aruman specifically at the spring of Sinimburan now a barangay of Carmen, Cotabato.
		This clan now-a-days are spread over Northern Cotabato and Western Bukidnon with their society center in Kimonait, Pangantucan, Bukidnon.
		Roxas, Arakon Valley, Antipas, Matalom and Kabacan all of Cotabato.
	www.ncca.gov.ph /about_cultarts/comarticles.php?artcl_Id=234 (1292 words)

	No RP-US Balikatan Exercises in Carmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		We are against the holding of Balikatan exercises in Carmen and other conflict-affected areas in Mindanao.
		The evacuees who were displaced in the all out war in 2000 and the Buliok war in 2003 have just returned home to rebuild their communities.
		Carmen is strategically located in Central Mindanao that any conflict that will occur can easily spread to Pikit, Buliok, Lanao and Maguindanao areas.
	www.iidnet.org /adv/mda/2004/balikatan_carmen.htm (431 words)

	Return us home, Central Mindanao evacuees to ask top officials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Some 13 evacuees from Pikit and Carmen in Cotabato; and from Pagagawan and Pagalungan in Maguindanao; started a long boat trip to Manila on Wednesday (2 April); they arrive in Manila on Saturday (5 April).
		The evacuees, representatives of an estimated 200,000 people displaced in Cotabato, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, Lanao Sur and Bukidnon by the ongoing war in Central Mindanao, are lobbying top government officials in Manila from April 5 to 12, 2003.
		Bulol, Pikit, Cotabato: "We are afraid to be caught in a crossfire.
	www.iidnet.org /adv/mda/return_us_home.htm (611 words)

	Bulatlat - The Philippines's alternative weekly magazine
		But for this year, the opposition is highlighted by the rejection of the U.S. government in granting the Philippines custody of the four U.S. soldiers charged with rape of a Filipina in Subic Bay, Zambales.
		In a manifesto, the North Cotabato local government expressed its rejection of playing host to U.S. troops and urged other local government units to do the same.
		What the province of Cotabato did should be emulated by all local governments, especially those hosting U.S. military troops in their hometowns.
	www.bulatlat.com /news/5-50/5-50-war.htm (921 words)

	Sun.Star General Santos - 100 soldiers in S. Cotabato to take part in war games
		Cayton, who provided the information late May that a joint RP-US military exercise would be held in Carmen town, said it would be an added bonus if soldiers under him would also be given a chance to participate in the Carmen training.
		His area of jurisdiction is strategically located or one of the gateways to Carmen town.
		601st Infantry Brigade operates in the provinces of South Cotabato, Sarangani and parts of Sultan Kudarat and Davao del Sur and in the cities of General Santos and Koronadal.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/gen/2004/07/12/news/100.soldiers.in.s..cotabato.to.take.part.in.war.games.html (470 words)

	A Call to Defend Life
		While we leave to the MILF leadership the responsibility of taking care of the psycho-social needs of their combatants, we, however, strongly urge the Armed Forces of the Philippines to set in place a stress debriefing program for the war-weary soldiers.
		The fact-finding mission was prompted mainly by the “combat coverage” of the conflict by many journalists, mostly from national and international outfits that failed to focus on the “people aspect” and the root causes of the war.
		It was also in answer to a challenge posed by Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato to the journalists to present Mindanao in correct and factual perspective.
	www.ccjd.org /articles/call.html (1296 words)

	A Call to Defend Life
		In Barangay Rajamuda, in Pikit, North Cotabato, the community school was virtually turned into a military barracks while some houses became the soldiers' sleeping quarters.
		The community mosque bore bullet holes while a large portion of the wall was ripped off due to a bomb explosion nearby.
		In Sitio Kilabao, in Carmen, North Cotabato, the war prevented the farmers from tilling their lands, and eventually harvesting crops.
	www.philsol.nl /A00b/Minjourn-Free-jul00.htm (1205 words)

	Gov.ph - Defense
		COTABATO CITY, April 22 (PNA) - Thirty-five Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels surrendered Friday to the military in Carmen, North Cotabato.
		The rebel returnees, led by Commander Bausi Sumalinog, belonged to the MILF's 8th Battalion of the 104th Brigade of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces.
		Sumalinog was once a top security aide of the late Commander Kagui Manalos, leader of the MILF that led the attack on the multi-billion Malituhog-Marigao Irrigation Project in Carmen during the early 1990s.
	www.gov.ph /cat_defense/newscontent.asp?newsid=8556 (186 words)

	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At one point in the past, Barangay Ugalingan in Carmen, Cotabato was declared a “No Man’s Land”, a declaration consequential to the killing of three members of the Scout Rangers of the Philippine Army by MILF Mujahideens.
		It was a celebration of the 42 Tabang Mindanaw communities from the war-torn provinces of Maguindanao, Cotabato and Lanao del Sur with Sec.
		Arlyn Lozano; the mayors and leaders of the Tabang Mindanaw IRRP communities, the MILF represented by Jun Mantawil Chairman of the MILF secretariat to the MILF negotiating peace panel; the MNLF Chairman of Sibangan, Cotabato, Datu Dima Ambil; NGO’s, Donors, Church Partners, and Tabang Mindanaw representatives headed by Co-Chair Amb.
	home.mindgate.net /tabangmindanaw/tambayayong-feature.html (807 words)

	PIA News Releases
		PIKIT, Cotabato (22 Jan) -- Farm yields have tripled since President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Japanese deputy chief of mission Akeo Egawa inaugurated the newly-completed the 4.8-billion yen Malitubog-Maridagao Irrigation Project, also known as Mal-Mar Irrigation Project in Gucotan, Pikit, Cotabato and Kilangan in Pagalungan, Maguindanao on November 19, 2003.
		The project, which the President dubbed as "a showcase for peace and development in Central Mindanao," is designed to 10,840 hectares of farmland, approximately half the size of the entire Camiguin Island or the entire Batanes Island, in the towns of Pikit, and Carmen, Cotabato and Pagalungan and Pagagawan towns in Maguindanao.
		The diversion dam was inaugurated in September 2001 by President Arroyo in Carmen, North Cotabato.
	www.pia.gov.ph /news.asp?fi=p040122.htm&no=10 (514 words)

	Mindanao Times News 2004 - Davao City 8000, Philippines
		The caravan is set to pass through the urban centers of Davao del Sur and Cotabato and will culminate in a rally at the gate of Camp Lucero, Carmen, Cotabato, the venue of the military exercises.
		Earlier, Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel Piñol said he is open to any form of peaceful protests against the military exercise s provided the participants would not disrupt the flow of traffic.
		Calix feared that with the presence of the American soldiers, more prostituted women and minors would be recruited to work as entertainers in night spots of the province.
	www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org /archives/04_0812_womenorgs_caravan_vs_war_games.htm (476 words)

	Roundup - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao-The second round of military exercises between the Philippines and the US military in Carmen, North Cotabato scheduled for Aug. 15 was called off because of the holding of elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
		COTABATO CITY-Smoke went up during the Department of Health's D-Day here Friday as residents waged war on mosquitoes by simultaneously burning organic materials for the government's antidengue fever campaign.
		The Cotabato Regional Medical Center had monitored 429 cases, which could include patients from nearby towns.
	news.inq7.net /regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=43898 (685 words)

	G.R. No. L-5835
		After marriage, the applicant went to live with her husband in Cotabato sometime in 1925, where she continued to reside up to the present time, having never left the Philippines.
		As to her qualifications and the manner she conducted herself in the country of which she desires to be a citizen, we quote the pertinent portion of the order of the trial court:
		But as already stated, she lived in Manila for about twenty years, and her knowledge of Tagalog can be fairly presumed, besides her claim and the finding of the trial court to this effect.
	www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1957/feb1957/gr_l-5835_1957.html (1200 words)

	VsUStroopsAtCotabatorally (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Members of Suara Bangsamoro and Bayan Muna from the Davao and Cotabato provinces gather in Kidapawan Gymnasium for a night of cultural presentationd conveying their opposition to the Balikatan exercises in Carmen, North Cotabato and Sulu.
		Moro leaders from Suara Bangsamoro, Liga ng Kabataang Moro, Kawagib Moro Human Rights, and Gabriela- Cotabato City in a press conference in Cotabato City raise their fists to protest of Balikatan exercises in North Cotabato and Sulu.
		Moro resident of Carmen, North Cotabato will also participate in the protest rally in front of Camp Lucero.
	www.arkibongbayan.org /2006-01Jan16-MoroVsBalancePiston/vsUStroops.htm (586 words)

	Bayan Muna » Blog Archive » Bayan Muna solon lambasts PNP for delaying anti-Balikatan caravan in North ...
		Bayan Muna solon lambasts PNP for delaying anti-Balikatan caravan in North Cotabato
		Reports reaching the Office of Rep. Virador state that the people’s caravan was held at least eight times upon the order of the PNP provincial director during its journey from Davao City to Carmen.
		The Inter-regional People’s Caravan, a 5,000-strong delegation from key regions in Mindanao, trooped to Carmen to oppose the holding of the said exercises in the country.
	www.bayanmuna.net /?p=25 (373 words)

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