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Moro Islamic Liberation Front  

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  • The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is a Muslim military group in the southern Philippines. MILF was created in 1981 when it split off from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), a Muslim separatist group that waged a 24-year guerrilla war against the Philippine government to achieve an independent Islamic state. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Moro Islamic Liberation Front]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Moro_Islamic_Liberation_Front

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