Inside Story

The Philippines’ private armies

A year after the Mindanao massacre, what has the government done to disarm the country’s warlords?

Almost one year after the Mindanao massacre, there are fresh claims of serious human rights violations by private armies in the Philippines.

So has the government done enough to disband and disarm the country’s warlords and to investigate those at the highest levels who allowed them to gain so much power?

Inside Story investigates.

This episode of Inside Story aired on Tuesday, November 16, 2010.