RAPITO UN MEMBRO DI MOVIMONDO NELLE FILIPPINE

["Loredana Morandi" <loredana.morandi at tiscali.it>]

Rapito un operatore umanitario italiano nelle Filippine

A Lanao del Norte sull'isola di Mindanao, nelle Filippine, è stato sequestrato 
un italiano, Andrea Cianferoni, direttore 
dei programmi per la ong Movimondo. L'associazione per la quale lavora 
l'operatore umanitario è molto impegnata nelle
Filippine in progetti che coinvolgono la comunità contadina. 
L'isola di Mindanao è al centro degli scontri tra l'esercito governative e il 
fronte Moro di liberazione islamica. 

      Gunmen kidnap Italian aid worker in Philippines
      09 Nov 2004 12:17:26 GMT

      Source: Reuters
     
MANILA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped an Italian aid worker on Tuesday on 
the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and have demanded a ransom, the army 
said. Two Filipino colleagues of Andrea Cienosterone, a project director for 
Italian non-government organisation Movimondo, were also abducted but later 
released with the ransom demand for 300,000 pesos ($5,300), said 
Lieutenant-General Alberto Braganza, the island's military commander. He said 
the three were taken at gunpoint by four men in Lanao del Norte province at 
about 2:30 p.m. (O630 GMT). "We're still checking the ransom demand," Braganza 
said, ordering government troops to try to find the Italian and his kidnappers.

In army spokesman said Cienosterone was abducted by a group of bandits whose 
leader was a close relative of a senior leader of a Muslim separatist group in 
Lanao del Norte. Eid Kabalu, a spokesman for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front 
(MILF), said rebel forces would cooperate with the government to secure 
Cienosterone's release. "We learned about the kidnapping and our forces in the 
area were ordered to recover him," he told Reuters. 

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colleghi della ong italiana Movimondo.

Loredana Morandi
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