mindanao

Another name for it is the Mindanao gum, as it is native to the tropical rainforests of Mindanao in the Philippines (north of the equator).

Also Iran, which is Shia, isn't involved with the terror groups in Mindanao (which are hardline Sunni and funded by the US GCC allies).

The Philippine guerrillas on Mindanao were crushed so savagely and effectively the locals still associate the US with actions taken during that time period.

Once you leave the capital city and go to Kelatan, Isaan, Aceh, or Mindanao stuff gets pretty bleh (despite the massive strides made in human development).

I was in Mindanao just this week, and did not get a full understanding of some of the groups hostile to Americans.

I have a lot of anecdotes from talking with locals around Bohol and family in Mindanao that it has been very successful.

Contrast Mindanao with the rest of the PH.

But I can understand people wanting strong government action, especially in Mindanao which has two different insurgencies (Islamic and Communist) to contend with besides drug gangs.

One of my relatives had a work trip (she worked for the national government) to rural Mindanao and they sent her by military helicopter with a squad of soldiers for protection.

Another thing I might add is that extrajudicial killings happened before Duerte especially in the southern Mindanao region, perpetrated by the army, as well as rebel groups.

If the US had annexed/colonized/assimilated the Philippines permanently (post 1920s), it would have had to resolve the 500 years of unresolved history of Mindanao and Sulu: first colonized /occupied by Spanish [0], then by the US itself.

Which is funny because Duterte has enforced martial law in the whole of Mindanao to quell a conflict in a single city which he himself has declared as already liberated back in October, and now there are rumblings of extending martial law to 2018.

Visiting Mindanao island, in the Philippines in 1686, the Englishman William Dampier observed the following: "...but the nutmegs this island produces are fair and large, yet they have no great store of them, being unwilling to propagate them or the cloves, for fear that should invite the Dutch to visit them and bring them into subjection as they have done the rest of the neighbouring islands where they grow.

The entire country is heavily armed -- compared to most countries -- especially Mindanao.

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning (India, Mindanao, Philippines).

The Moro Rebellion (1899–1913) was an armed conflict between the Moro people (Muslims in Southern Philippines: Mindanao, Jolo, Sulu) and the US military during the Philippine–American War.