The hostages were from a village in Agusan del Sur province on Mindanao island and the local village school.

被劫人质来自棉兰老岛上南阿古桑省的一个村庄及当地一所学校。

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They include Akira Makino, a former doctor who in 2006 said he had been ordered to conduct experiments on condemned men while stationed on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

这其中包括了前医生彰牧野，他在2006年讲述了在菲律宾棉兰老岛驻扎期间，他被命令对战犯进行人体实验。

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Most of the dead are from the main southern island of Mindanao.

死亡者大多数来自棉兰老岛南部的主要岛屿。

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The vessel left General Santos City in the southern island of Mindanao Saturday morning bound for Iloilo City in the central Philippines.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

Public perceptions, shaped by headline-grabbing earthquakes, typhoons and periodic kidnappings mostly by Muslim extremists around the contested southern island of Mindanao have helped chill leisure travelers' enthusiasm for the island nation.

WSJ: The Philippines's Strange Paradise

In 1976, a severe earthquake shook the Philippine island of Mindanao, leaving about 8, 000 people dead.

CNN: Monday,

The separatist war waged for the past 31 years by the MILF and other Muslim rebels on the Philippine island of Mindanao has caused around 120, 000 deaths.

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