ZAMBOANGA CITY: All six governors in the Muslim autonomous region and Islamic religious leaders and various civil society groups are set to hold a summit with the local government officials on a plan to forcefully relocate thousands of Muslim villagers displaced by war in Zamboanga City in September.

The summit, set of Tuesday in Zamboanga City, will discuss the plight of war refugees who are still suffering from their harrowing ordeal of three weeks of street battles between security forces and Moro National Liberation Front rebels who occupied villages in a failed effort to declare independence here.

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