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Failure to aid rehabilitation effort has set Mindanao back decades
Six months after the end of the 2017 battle of Marawi in the southern Philippines, residents were allowed into ground zero for just a few hours to retrieve whatever they could of their possessions destroyed in the five months (...)
Between January 1 2016 and June 31 2020, my Political Violence in the Southern Philippines Dataset recorded 1,979 incidents of political violence that resulted in 5,928 total casualties among all categories of actors. This dataset excludes the 2017 siege of Marawi City. According to the data, (...)
Mindanao cinema has grown exponentially in the last decade with its many filmmakers from producing films that made mark in the independent filmmaking scene, reaped accolades both in the country and abroad, and contributed to the deepening of the discourse on regional cinema in the Philippines. (...)
DAVAO CITY (Mindanews / 13 June) The controversial anti-terrorism bill puts lawyers, especially human rights lawyers, at the limelight. People from all walks of life enthusiastically poured their opinions and emotions through the mainstream or social media. Understandably, the public attention (...)
As Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte prepares to deliver his annual “State of the Nation” address on Monday, a group of residents from Marawi are planning a counter-event to hand down their verdict on what they say is the government’s failure to rebuild a city that was devastated in a siege (...)
Civic leaders and residents demand transparency from President Duterte over the rehabilitation of southern city.
Marawi City, Philippines - It has been one year since an armed group inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a deadly five-month siege in the southern (...)
A continuing displacement crisis and growing discontent with martial law risk creating yet another conflict.
The surprisingly protracted and intense urban war that erupted between government forces and Islamist rebels in the southern Philippines in May 2017 has created a displacement crisis in (...)
NO TO MARTIAL LAW! PROTECT OUR HUMAN RIGHTS AND COLLECTIVE RIGHTS OF PEOPLES!
“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free” - 14th Dalai Lama. On December 11, 2017, the President requested Congress to extend Martial (...)
MARTIAL LAW EXTENSION IN MINDANAO A ROADMAP TO PERDITION OF THE PEOPLES’ DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND OF THE COUNTRY
The MindanaOne Tri-Peoples’ Movement for Peoples’ Democratic Rights (MindanaOne) is saddened and worried, but not surprised, of the extension of the already extended Martial Law in (...)
Reclaim, Defend and Promote Human Rights for All at All Times
A Declaration of the Mindanao-wide Conference against Martial Law
We, the 103 Bangsamoro, Mindanao Migrants and Indigenous People delegates of the Mindanao Conference Against Martial Law representing 44 organizations coming from (...)
Marawi City, Philippines - With this city won back from pro-ISIL fighters, military troops have begun their gradual exit, allowing civilian officials and journalists to enter the blockaded central district where most of the fighting took place.
The view that unfolded was staggering: five (...)
The Philippine government has officially declared an end to the siege in the southern city of Marawi, ending five months of heavy clashes against ISIL-linked fighters and paving the way to recovery for a town left with more than $1bn worth of destruction.
Defence chief Delfin Lorenzana made (...)
After two of the top leaders of local terrorists are killed in Marawi City, is the lifting of martial law in Mindanao coming anytime soon? Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana says they will make an assessment first before sending recommendations to President Rodrigo Duterte.
MANILA, Philippines (...)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 07 August) — [Note: Upon his assumption to the caliphate after the demise of the Holy Prophet of Islam (saw), Hazrat Abubakr as-Siddiq (ra) told the Muslim throng in Madina that attended his investiture: “Correct me when I am wrong and support me when I am (...)
MANILA, Philippines - Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr., the man tagged in Kuratong Baleleng-led crimes, smuggling and drug trafficking, met a violent death before dawn yesterday as police conducted a series of raids on the family’s homes.
Aside from the mayor, his wife Susan, brother (...)
The United States has turned over rocket motors and rockets to the Philippine Air Forces to aid in the government’s counterterrorism efforts.
The US Embassy in Manila said on Saturday that “officials from the Joint United States Military Assistance Group (JUSMAG) recently delivered 1,040 2.75” (...)
“Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.”- Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 21 July) — “Our house in Raya Madaya (...)
Bomb! Burn! Build! This can be the briefest description one can have today in what has happened and possibly will happen to the only Islamic City of the pre-dominantly Christian country. The siege of Marawi is nearing its second month. The country’s security sector has been surprised that it (...)
Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan writes about her journey when covering the battle for control of Marawi.
Night veils Marawi’s face again.
It is Ramadan and the minarets are silent. The call to prayers have been replaced by the sounds of artillery bombs.
My back hurts from the flak jacket, so I (...)
The Context
Veni, Vidi, Vici, a famous pre-Christ Latin (47BC) saying of Julius Caesar, which means “I came, I saw, I conquer” can still be very appropriate today when one refers to what has happened to Isnilon Hapilon the self-proclaimed ISIS Emir in Southeast Asia. But, as it has been already (...)
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