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  • Philippines says rebel hostage standoff that killed over 200 is over

    09/28/2013 4:32:54 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 33 replies
    Honolulu Star Advertiser ^ | 28 September 222013 | Jim Gomez
    MANILA » A deadly three-week standoff between government troops and Muslim rebels who held nearly 200 people hostage in the southern Philippines has ended with all of the remaining captives safe, officials said Saturday More than 200 people were killed in the clashes, including 183 rebels, 23 soldiers and police, and 12 civilians. It was in one of the bloodiest and longest-running attacks by a Muslim group in the southern Philippines, the scene of a decades-long Muslim rebellion for self-rule in the largely Roman Catholic country. Gazmin said 195 hostages had either been rescued, managed to escape or were freed....