A Restraining order on the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA- AD) is issued on August 4 and declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and the aborted signing triggers yet another shooting war in North Cotabato, Maguindanao and Lanang, displacing at least half a million residents, to be reported in 2009 by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre as “the biggest new displacement in the world”. (Mindanews)
Source: Mindanao-Sulu Timeline 2017 Pilot Edition. p95