TUKANALIPAO, Philippines: Farmer Lot Pangaoilan gazes towards a vast cornfield in the Philippines’ rebel-infested south, hoping that one day he will be able to farm his land without fear of being killed.
For two decades, he has been ploughing his three-hectare (7.4-acre) land by hand and with the help of a water buffalo, worried that if he uses a heavy motor tractor he might detonate an explosive.
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