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Historic Bangsamoro vote starts in Philippines
10:11 January 21, 2019 AA
People cast their ballots during a referendum on the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) at a polling station in Cotabato City, Philippines on January 21, 2019. The referendum set to shape the future of Muslims in the southern Philippines started on Monday. The Bangsamoro Muslims, long deprived of freedom under the U.S. and the modern Philippine state, reached the final phase in an autonomy agreement signed with the government in Manila in July 2018.