In Marawi, displaced residents feel ‘excluded’ from gov’t rehabilitation ‘We should not just focus on facilities, but also on the people, their livelihood, and their situation,’ says Saripada Tong Pasacum Jr. of Marawi-based Early Response Network. BY KENNETH ROLAND GUDA June 29, 2021 | 07:00:00 AM
Marawi City community leaders asked the government to provide basic services to displaced residents as many of them were still unable to find stable jobs and livelihood.
It has been more than four years since local and foreign sympathizers of international jihadist group Islamic State laid siege to the city and fought with government troops, leading to massive loss of life and destruction of property.
Normalisation process fails to normalise Mindanao in the Philippines
Four civilians were killed, two of them women, after getting caught in the crossfire of the war between the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters-Karialan Group (BIFF) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Wednesay 28 April in the southern Philippines. These deaths are only the latest in a long string of fatalities beginning in mid-February to early March 2021, when multiple armed clashes erupted in the towns of Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Datu Salibo, Mamasapano, Shariff Aguak, and Shariff Saydona Mustapha. Authorities have counted over 66,000 individuals displaced from these recent wars. These wars have not been disrupted by the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) nor contained by the normalization agreement that formed part of the agreement’s transitional measures.
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