{"id":30826,"date":"2019-01-28T00:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T00:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30826"},"modified":"2019-01-28T00:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T00:22:27","slug":"can-there-be-peace-in-the-southern-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30826","title":{"rendered":"Can there be peace in the southern Philippines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"80.5717213115\">\n<p>At least 20 people have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/bombs-target-church-philippines-jolo-island-190127050818906.html\">killed<\/a> in twin bombings in the Muslim-majority southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/philippines.html\">Philippines<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The first explosion happened during Sunday Mass inside the Catholic cathedral in Jolo, the capital of Sulu province.<\/p>\n<p>A second blast occurred as soldiers arrived at the scene. Scores of people were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks followed last Monday&#8217;s referendum in the Mindanao region, which overwhelmingly voted for \u00a0<br \/>more self rule in the culmination of a decades-long peace process. But the proposal was narrowly rejected in Jolo and Sulu province.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of Sunday&#8217;s bombs has raised questions over whether the attack was meant to derail the peace process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Laura Kyle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jose Antonio Custodio &#8211; defence &#038; security analyst, former consultant to the National Security Council in the Philippines<\/p>\n<p>Emma Leslie &#8211; director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies<\/p>\n<p>Steve Rood &#8211; former Philippines country representative, The Asia Foundation<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people have been killed in twin bombings in the Muslim-majority southern Philippines on Sunday. The first explosion happened during Sunday Mass inside the Catholic cathedral in Jolo, the capital of Sulu province. A second blast occurred as soldiers arrived at the scene. Scores of people were wounded. The attacks followed last Monday&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}