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        "msgid": "philippine-rebels-request-un-vote-1447893297",
        "date": "2000-03-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "Philippine rebels request UN vote",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Philippine rebels request UN vote MANILA (Reuters): The chief of the Philippines' biggest Islamic rebel group has called for a UN-organized independence vote for Muslims in the country's south, but President Joseph Estrada vowed never to bow to separatists.",
        "content": "<p>Philippine rebels request UN vote<\/p>\n<p>MANILA (Reuters): The chief of the Philippines' biggest<br>\nIslamic rebel group has called for a UN-organized independence<br>\nvote for Muslims in the country's south, but President Joseph<br>\nEstrada vowed never to bow to separatists.<\/p>\n<p>Salamat Hashim, chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front<br>\n(MILF), said in a taped interview aired on Sunday the vote could<br>\nbe \"like what was done in East Timor\", the former Indonesian-<br>\nruled territory which last year voted for independence in a UN-<br>\nsupervised referendum.<\/p>\n<p>But Estrada, speaking to graduating cadets of the Philippine<br>\nMilitary Academy, said he would not give in to any separatist<br>\ndemands.<\/p>\n<p>Salamat's call comes just over a week after clashes in which<br>\nthe military said it killed more than 100 rebels. The MILF said<br>\nit lost seven. A smaller rebel group, the Abu Sayyaf, last week<br>\nabducted more than 70 students and teachers on Basilan island,<br>\nnear Mindanao.<\/p>",
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