MANILA: Philippine President Gloria Arroyo ordered selective aerial and artillery attacks on Muslim separatist guerillas yesterday, declaring “we must fight back now or face greater peril in the future.”
Immediately after her statement aired on government television, the head of military forces in the south announced that his forces were using “punitive force” against members of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
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