In 1976, a severe earthquake shook the Philippine island of Mindanao, leaving about 8, 000 people dead.
Partly as a consequence, hawkish politicians in Christian-dominated parts of Mindanao helped scuttle the deal.
The treaty gives Mindanao's Muslims less than the full independence they wanted but substantial autonomy nonetheless.
Rebel Misuari is now Governor Misuari, co-architect of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
And this month, PMMahathir Mohamad vowed that Malaysia would take part in Mindanao's economic development.
More difficult to estimate is the cost to Mindanao in lost opportunity and continuing poverty.
Several hundred American troops are in Mindanao helping Philippine forces stamp the group out.
Now the MILF wants to secede and make resource-rich Mindanao a separate Islamic republic.
About 40, 000 people on Mindanao are living in evacuation centres after losing their homes and possessions.
This time, it was different, insists Sister Telma Argata, a nun and peace advocate in central Mindanao.
But a greater distraction from the campaign in Mindanao is the persistence of another, far broader insurgency.
Nor will a peace settlement cover myriad armed groups in Mindanao some gangsters, some Islamist militants, many both.
It is now starting pilot projects in the central region of the Visayas and the southern region of Mindanao.
Hostilities are confined to a few barrios that comprise less than 1% of the total land area of Mindanao.
In some parts of Mindanao, people took to gold panning as floodwaters swept a mining area in Mawab town.
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America says it is ready to pour aid into Mindanao if peace holds.
The PacMan Gensan team of the Mindanao Visayas Basketball Association is based out of his hometown in General Santos City.
One has to really go to Mindanao to determine what's there and what was not there not so long ago.
The peace plan envisages the establishment of an autonomous Muslim area in Mindanao, called Bangsamoro, subject to a plebiscite there.
In the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), a region located in the Mindanao division, predominantly consists of Muslim provinces.
More worrying still is the prospect that a victory over the Abu Sayyaf could actually make matters worse in Mindanao.
Do you worry that what you achieved in Mindanao will be continued?
Perhaps the most protracted is in the southern province of Mindanao, where 137 families are fighting to receive 100 hectares of promised land.
The prospect of peace in Mindanao has quickly prompted speculation about whether this model could help resolve other long-running insurgencies in South-East Asia.
Celebrates his birthday each year by giving to a different cause, such as helping street children, supporting scholarship programs or promoting peace in Mindanao.
Likewise, in the 1960s when former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was persecuting the Moros of Mindanao, they found shelter and sympathy in neighboring Sabah.
About 40, 000 people on Mindanao, many of whom were already desperately poor, are now living in evacuation centres after losing their homes and possessions.
But now they have a framework in place, they also know this is the best chance for peace that Mindanao has seen in decades.
The Supreme Court recently denied the farmers ownership of a 144-hectare track of land in Mindanao, so they are staging a vigil in protest.
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