The IMT and clashes between the govt. and MILF

MindaNews checked the records of the Joint Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities (Joint CCCH)  and found that the number of skirmishes between the governent and MILF forces has steadily gone down from 698 in 2002 to 569 in 2003, a year of war; to 16 in 2004, the year  the IMT came to Mindanao; 13 in 2005; 10 in 2006 to only 8 in 2007.

I think this is an evidence of the usefulness of the IMT. While we become a part of the scenario of a possible pull out what with all its feared consequences, these numbers should speak loudly.