Donate NowPhotojournalist Ryan Anson returns to Mindanao, southern Philippines to examine the pitfalls and successes of the peace process with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). His photographs also document how violent clan-based politics as well as the government's ongoing counterinsurgency campaign against the al-Qaeda linked Abu Sayyaf Group affect the lives of ordinary Mindanaon Muslims in the central Mindanao and Sulu regions.
May 25, 2007 | Frontline
Frontline WORLD features Ryan Anson's reporting and photos
Ryan Anson talks with FRONTLINE/World's Mimi Chakarova about what drew him to live in the Philippines in early 2000 and why the Islamic separatist struggle in the south of the country and in southern Thailand have become a central focus of his work.
May 25, 2007 | KCBS
Ryan Anson interviewed on the Insurgency in Mindanao on KCBS
Ryan Anson interviewed on the insurgency in Mindanao on KCBS.
May 20, 2007 | Pulitzer Center
Inside the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
May 15, 2007 | Pulitzer Center