
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - JUNE 29: Filipino Muslims bury their dead following this morning's roadside bombing which ripped through a marketplace in Datu Saudi Ampatuan on June 29, 2009 in Maguindanao, Southern Philippines. Three Filipinos were killed and around 14 injured in the blast, which the Military is blaming on the Muslim rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), however, MILF deny any involvement. Maguindanao province, 960km south of Manila, has seen ongoing fighting between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Muslim rebels and Philippine military troops since August 2008 when the rebels launched a series of attacks across several villages, killing almost 300 people but displacing over half a million more in the initial attacks and fighting which has followed. The MILF Muslim separatist rebel group are fighting for an independent Islamic state in the southern Philippines. (Photo by Jeoffrey Maitem/Getty Images)