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"I don't want the next generation to be unaware of our past," Sanira said. "Our roots, our history could vanish. I feel responsible for preserving our identity by learning traditions and sharing them through dance."
Within a month of the Marawi Siege in 2017, around 360,000 people in and around the conflict's epicenter were displaced. More than 17,000 families remain as such even as late as 2022. Most of Marawi's old residents spend ...
‘Kambalingan’ is a Maranao word that means to return home, and this is exactly the dream for many residents who were forced out of their homes because of the Marawi siege in 2017.
Janisah Acmad was at work when the attack happened. The security guard at the Mindanao State University was on duty when word reached her and her colleagues around 3 p.m. of May 23, 2017 that there was gunfire at Barangay Basak ...
Five months after hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes to escape the war, the residents of Marawi are finally able to go home.
Marawi/Manila-Samira Gutoc never thought she would ever welcome the sight of traffic until her car slowed to halt and began inching its way along the roads of Saguiaran to its final destination: her home in Marawi City. A flood of ...
The heroes of war aren't only the ones who take lives. Some also save them.
In those first days of the siege, some members of the rescue team were in slippers when the they raced to the battlefield to help trapped residents. "Our satellite office was in the warzone and our equipment was inside. We had to ...
“They would brainwash us by saying that that if we escaped, the soldiers would only kill us."
Iligan City, Northern Mindanao-His name was Rapsan. He was big burly tattooed man, covered in black from the boots on his feet to the mask he used to cover his face. He was draped in ammunition and wore them like accessories. ...
UN Refugee Agency Advocate Atom Araullo visited refugees in surrounding areas.
More than 359,680 persons have been displaced as a result of the Marawi crisis. Their stories are each more tragic and and more courageous than the last, but it isn't over for them yet.Hope is not lost for survivors ...
In case you missed it, here's Justice Leonen dissenting opinion on the legality of martial law in Mindanao.
On July 5, 11 Supreme Court Justices voted to dismiss the petitions that questioned the legality of President Rodrigo Duterte's martial law declaration in Mindanao; three Justices voted to partially grant petitions, while one Justice voted to grant petitions-Associate Justice ...
Arman Ali Ghodsinia will call for the fighting to stop.
Arman Ali Ghodsinia, a native of Marawi City, is set to speak on behalf of this year's graduating class at the University of the Philippines Diliman's commencement exercises on Sunday, June 25.Ghodsinia is a B.S. Molecular Biology and ...
You can't get closer to the action than this.
While most of us were celebrating Independence Day last Monday and enjoying the long weekend, the struggle in Marawi did not let up. Over the past few days, distressing reports of our marines being killed, of trapped civilians dying of hunger, and ...
These children are expressing the horrors that they've seen through drawings.
On assignment to cover the events after the siege of Marawi City, I met these children who are now in an evacuation center in Pantar Central Elementary School, in Lanao del Norte. Thousands of Marawi residents escaped in fear of the ISIS- ...
Let's hope it won't be put to the test.
While some reports predict a "protracted battle" and others claim that the siege "could be over soon," one thing is certain: the Maute militants are proving to be surprisingly difficult to expel from Marawi City. "With bomb-proof tunnels, anti-tank weapons ...
Thoughts from a fourth-generation Kidapawan about martial law in Mindanao.
As always there is war in my country.But as always, two different wars are waging in Manila and in Mindanao.In Mindanao the Maute group-sympathizers of International terrorist group Daesh-are assaulting the Islamic city of Marawi in Lanao. Duterte ...
Now's the time to help.
Now that martial law has been declared in Mindanao, it's best to have a better grip of the situation and how we as a nation can help our fellow Filipinos. It is important to understand that any kind of help we ...
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