The Philippine government has announced that it was scrapping a peace deal with the country's biggest Muslim rebel group after days of fighting this week.
A government spokeswoman called the decision a painful step but that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo would seek a new agreement. The peace deal would have expanded an existing Muslim autonomous zone. Christian groups opposed the deal as unconstitutional. When the Supreme Court halted its implementation, rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front launched the attack that left about 40 people dead.
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