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if. the search. there was good don't know one more already burned the place let it go ahead. do it. if i have a minute of my job i won't join the isis. this was squashed by an ideology that's foreign to us. history museum coming into the country from

other countries. i'd say it's center issues but he never had anything to do. with. the supervision at all so this is just eat i know incident of our liberation. funniness klimov in the blink of an eye my children were gone and i will never see them again and that something terrible and. what the president did in there always a good lesson. it's only because. the moment.

moos move. move move move move move move move move move move move. we're on mindanao the second biggest island of the philippines. it's in the south of the country a little smaller than south korea and famous for its natural beauty. this

is also the site of one of the longest running conflicts in asia it's mainly a conflict between the christian majority and the muslim minority more than one hundred thousand have been killed over the past decades. may twenty seventeen saw a catastrophic development the self-proclaimed islamic state also known as i got involved in the conflict. with just a few hundred fighters that seized the mainly muslim town of murali and held it for five months. the consequences were devastating. for the philippine president rodrigo territory known for his brutal zero tolerance approach proceeded to bomb the city. we want to find out how it was possible. for i.a.s.

to gain a foothold in the philippines. we need someone who witnessed the battle for murali to people they thought is a joke how can you attack a city. and take cost tens of thousands of people. it's unthinkable but it happened and this is how terrorism plays its part because it can explode with a breakout any time before your boyfriend is not holding look maan is a historian and a member of a powerful muslim family nonetheless he has to ask the army for permission to accompany us into the center of mirali it's now an exclusion zone the city has a population of two hundred thousand but.

is not allowed to enter his house. not all the booby traps and explosive devices in the area have been cleared away. soldiers tell us where we may go and how long we may stay people here call the exclusion zone ground zero tens of thousands have lost their homes. this used to be the central mosque. he used to come here and stay here and pray for

the dead. artillery mortar helicopter gunships jet fighters. everything west's. bombs. i was watching it the whole time but my twelve days of entrapment here. there was a time on this second day and think my brother went to channel bautista. and us came to stop the bombings but the army rejected that because they say. they can't handle the situation. and they were not able to handle the situation. taken down. on may twenty third twenty seventeen government forces responded swiftly and harshly.

in this type of warfare you have to flush out the enemy from their defensive position. if you look at the experience of. aleppo. all of this experienced bombings but in the case of. the. when we did the bombings it was been pointed to specific targets only. the battle lasted five months more than a thousand people were killed for the armed forces it was the toughest battle since the second world war i as terrorists took hostages and murdered christians.

desperate terrified people sought shelter on no deano man's property both muslims and christians. i was not afraid i just want to make sure that everybody is safe i don't care about death i was waiting to die. i don't know i did not fear death because. you know i was schooled you know really just so. the situation. we never think about that as an enemy. if it's god's will that you die you die if it's god's will that you really believe even if you're. right in the middle of more solar or in damascus or where. after twelve days of siege food and water were running out in morocco we.

look man whose nickname is norway decided to flee with those he had been sheltering . in front of a building. a boy was blocking my path. i was right in that. ring and then when i got near. he recognized me and said go away. and i said what are you doing here i don't. respond here what are you doing here. i hope i'm a feast even so proud of it and they're not that he said this is no way that split them pass let them pass so. when i pass by a bear i saw some snipers there and that building. bullets in their guns. were looking at me as that. but this they stopped firing and i felt so happy i mean you cannot explain experienced that in any other situation but. i i felt that

elation i think that it's almost divine. i'm still alive and the people are alive nobody got hurt that's ok thank god. look man became the hero of harare he led more than one hundred fifty civilians to safety. in parts of the city that were not destroyed life looks like it is back to normal though martial law is still in force throughout mindanao. here stopped repeatedly at military checkpoints.

wanted posters for suspected terrorists are everywhere. who are they. and what do they want. we meet abdul he was recruited at the age of seventeen he didn't have a job i have offered him money and a gun he says he trained in the jungle alongside local and foreign fighters. says i mean less obvious but not enough and the company told us what the qur'an says. an eye for an eye. and we have the right to take revenge but then yeah i don't play games and i've been in. the i.a.s. commanders launched the attack earlier than planned abdul wasn't in morocco at the time. no mean alarm and i mean the question will last a long. when we heard that they had started fighting those of us outside my rafi

max and we discussed how to get to the center. i mean. another track i mean among we tried seven times we even used motor boats to try to get in from the lake but it didn't work. but. i do past information about the movement of government troops to his eye as comrades inside the besieged city by cell phone he tells us that forty of his friends were killed none the less he could imagine joining battle again. so stop wanting him when i mean it must not have an advantage because we are young people just blend in with the population. the military can't easily identify which

of us are fighters who know how to use a gun and having no alabama fight there or a modern no coming a mile a mile body. because it was i wouldn't fight in iraq. or in any other muslim area and the same thing would happen again. only muslim people with. it but if the battle took place somewhere else i would join somalia. abdul is out of a job again and he's disappointed about losing the battle and about the empty promises i said made. the leaders of the i.a.s. fighters in morale we were two brothers omar and abdullah mountain members of a powerful clan they are revered as heroes by their young followers. but most

muslims on mindanao have no sympathy for the ideology of the so-called islamic state other can share reeve is a leading figure in the local muslim community he knew them out of brothers because of his long beard he has been dubbed bin laden as in osama bin laden. sharif likes the nickname even though he says he is opposed to violence and said that to the local i asked fighters. visiting me in my house and yet convincing me to join them sometimes they told me please join us really make us our army. yes he will make us our leader actually when you have talking with me he said but i've been letting you join us because you

cannot trust him or it would have been governments because they are always betraying us so that's why i did become. bad because. sharif did not join the group led by the mountain brothers he told them he could not fight because he had heart disease. islamic state called on its sympathizers around the world to support them all to brothers in the battle on mindanao. the. state that's why i told him it is impossible because even you. were in this water but a leg of the predicted go but i mean we're not allowed to hop in if you see what's happening in iraq. join the america i did with anything so what happened. you lose. the sharif run

several religious schools in morocco way he says the kind of islam they teach is peaceful and has nothing in common with i guess ideology. he tells us that muslims here are concerned to maintain their own culture independence is not a priority. in fact he says many muslims in iraq we had actually voted for do territory. and yet it was the president himself he continues who provoked the attack on the city. what our brazilian did is did but they did ok you can bore down to one and more. column in may on opinion this is the day. but the goldberg the go betterment or self

discipline because did not allow us to negotiate with the devil. we accompany show relief to midday prayers in the mosque. feel. safe. muslims make up just five percent of the philippine population the majority are catholics almost all the muslims live moment in al. sharif says that many here feel marginalized and abused by the philippine government

a feeling only confirmed by the bombing of. as a result of the conflict and the destruction tens of thousands fled the city. we visit one of the many camps set up for the displaced. fatima is a widow and used to run a small shop downtown she has eight children since the battle erupted she hasn't seen four of them. again no one will know my strength comes from allah only from allah he keeps me alone. before i could hear my children's voices but not anymore. before in the middle of

the night at one in the morning i could hear them crying for help but now i can't hear them anymore my children are too far away already i can no longer hear their voices. the four who have gone missing three girls and a boy were all in qur'an school when the fighting began. fatima and the four children still with her are tormented by thoughts of what might have happened to the others were they seized by the i.a.s. fighters are they long dead. or missing. trying to hide my suffering from other children. there are times when i pray to god to ask him to take my life . but when i see my children. i still so young.

to go about going to go my request and instead ask him to give me more years to live the gunmen the monk. and what. do you think you can do for. most of the children in the displaced persons camps don't go to school most of the families are poor. or very good an important person has come to visit some miracle talk she's running for the senate and if she wins she will be the first muslim senator in a quarter of a century she's critical of the way deter take conducted the campaign to retake.

that's not liberation of all this is just. kind of announcement of our liberation but the real liberation is not living in this kind of the ways on this is not the way we were this is not the kind of like we want this is not the kind of freedom that we want for children missing amongst thousand people missing is not an achievement it is a moral disaster it's in fun it is infamy for us. that can never be repaired. nobody knows how many civilians were killed during the siege. so mirror good talk takes a. to a mass grave outside of town. it's not known who is buried here. none of the victims were ever identified.

is an example of discrimination of not allowing traditional indigenous mediation systems if we keep on making peacekeeping as a decision of only men in uniform and the national with local civilian population on it will always be a lock and failed experiment it's a failed decision tomorrow is a failed decision it cannot be any more used as a template for any other. the following day we have an appointment with the largest muslim rebel group on mindanao the moral islamic liberation front or m i l f we are told to follow the black pickup in front into territory controlled by the group.

for decades the rebels fought for independence from the central government in manila many thousands were killed in the fighting. wait wait wait wait. what sense i asked burst onto the scene the former archenemies the front and the government have become strategic allies. and now. we need a rebel leader who played a key role in dialogue with the government under successive presidents. god's only job tells us of his determination to establish an autonomy's homeland for his people bangsamoro. negotiations lead to a deal codified in the bungs

a more organic law the basis for the new bangs and morrow autonomous region in muslim mindanao we could see on current government budget and islamic legal system . what is the reason why it's not always seems to happen it is because of its injustice this young people are never fed up that's why i and then. the group which is more militant. stay i'm of course are in awe. and they isis. and they isis. plain to find out who can be. there to be our ally outside of the middle east. and. they believe. mindanao or a place. can't meet their eye. because. the

muslims are not satisfied. but example of there so much crops are. made and over. and miss marr administration. in the event. we are allowed to visit the headquarters of the military wing of the liberation front. as for us he's. the chief of staff isn't in uniform

a sign perhaps of the shift from armed struggle to political action and responsibility. or we ask what might happen if the project of autonomy doesn't go well. then maybe they. people are. us but our committee really did a lot of people really become diminishes. the isis with. the station. all the. tools. in their little time they can become bigger. and. the liberation front has a lot of support among the muslim world for many believe their ancestors were victims of a historical injustice committed by christians the spanish an american colonists and the philippine government in manila. the prospect of autonomy and peace has

given the people here new hope. the m. f. says it will disarm up to thirty thousand fighters once autonomy for the muslim majority region is implemented. if not then they start the support of the men we will not. do commission our forces and we will not give up our fight arms which we promised to the government. thanks. the rebels take us on patrol. out in the marshes here there are still fighters loyal to i.a.s. lying low. and. we have the impression the m.i.l.f. men want to show that they are still in charge as if to say without us there can be

no peace on mindanao. the movement's leaders. evidently think highly of president hu territory for advancing peace but also because he too is from mindanao and has muslims in his family. peace of innocence even more significant process that's why i really thought i was president the good thing because obi hisper always read his actual. holy. attribute if the words had been displaced that's why i really thought us president that. we ask ourselves who does the land really belong to to the muslims whose ancestors settled on mindanao in the thirteenth century or to the christians who came much later but now account for the majority of the island's population.

we visit the village of mother one hundred families live here they're all catholic . us. it's. the only duster combo looks after the small chapel the villages within the new bums and moro autonomous region. possibility simply. my worry is that we just don't know. if we go to the town hall for example we don't

know what will happen to us when the muslims are in poland and what they can do to us. even though money going to. mean what's out. so the only one in that book i know that's why i'm scared when our date is in town and not christians. or is it me and madge look ok did that mean i'm good i don't not that was my of course i'm afraid that my robbery will happen again i saw what happened in the city was destroyed and our livelihood would also be destroyed if this were to happen somewhere here in our area daily income it was almost the in. god we don't easily live here. we don't want to be evacuated we don't want to live without

direction and they don't want the muzzle in the mine but with the man. when i. was thinking it was a man who would be carrying. the villagers are descendants of christian settlers from the north most of whom came here while the philippines was under u.s. control which only ended in one thousand nine hundred six. many here don't trust muslims the have seen evidence that baldwin muslims come to our village there's no problem but when we go to where they are they want to cut off our heads i mean. damn i begin a melissa long as that's why we don't want them to rule in our community. the attitude of muslims is very different from our christian attitude. on money it's terrifying. what will happen to our children when we have to live under muslim rule . muslims and christians are different than what i was a christian simply had. once the muslims rule they will make us their slaves and

steal our harvest. moon or not. i. think. after church on sunday in a nearby village it's time for some cock fighting. it's a bloody spectacle and a favorite pastime for many in the philippines mainly among christians.

muslim religious leaders and the moral islamic liberation front disapprove not of the cruelty but because it involves gambling.

we reached the v. . just city in mindanao. president was mayor here for more than twenty years. this is where he began his notorious war on drugs seemingly deploying the police as extra judicial hitman. estimates of the number of people killed ranged between five thousand and twenty thousand. and. the next morning we meet an old friend and confidant of the

president. he invited us to see his fish farm. so this is where i do my money beyond what they only vote for their lawyer here because we think they'd go for it if. that. oh he's a busy politician so he soon heads back to the city. we arranged to meet him again later. deval is a mainly catholic city and it's striking how prosperous it appears to be compared

to muslim communities on mindanao it is also considered the safest and cleanest city in the country. many say that's thanks to rob riggle two territories tenure as mer. case used to race in agrees we meet him again at his waterfront resort he sends to tell is a man of action not words watch really what the das the option that it takes that is how you measuring him don't measure him by what comes out from his small. doing the president. when he was mayor here for more than twenty years in this city that was his way of doing things and he had to do it hands on you know i he's my friend . during night time during times when there are high incidence of holdups drivers he would drive

a taxi himself how about guns ready and drive and go to places where hold ups are usually happening he once also will be held up because he can personally counter them in his own way. drugs corruption violent extremists if you handle them against live and all that maybe you will just prolong the agony. for you but i can do research does p.r. for do terror tape when ever he can. for many years he was presidential peace and visors he explains the peace plan for mindanao to a group of visitors many of whom are fans of the president. was he so we. get. to the races says it's a very western point of view to accuse detail of abusing human rights and argues

that paternity is so popular because he both pursues reconciliation and embodies toughness as he demonstrated with respect to morale we. it is a strong signal to the bad guys that don't bear around with this country have been in the peace process under several presidents and we have not moved at. this time the president feels that rick and improve as a nation if we try to give more authority and power for the locals. we head back to murali to meet. again. he shows us the small museum that his family sponsored.

and. the central exhibit is the painting depicting a battle between muslims and spanish colonisers who arrived in the sixteenth century and were the first christians to settle in mindanao. what happened in mara city is a continuation of the colonial war against our people and that is what's happening now. and until now the circle animosity has that in resolve. and hopefully. we can resolve this peacefully without going through war. let everything.

look man says he's going to run for deputy governor political developments over the coming months will prove decisive. for. the whole. world. he views the prospect of autonomy for muslims in the region as an opportunity to overcome old enmities but as a historian he's all too aware of a long history of conflict for many centuries for many to cage for many generations . most of the problems that are being sold mindanao has to go to war. every don't want war in a war but if it comes then so be it. back .

at the end of our trip we take part in a ceremony to mark the start of reconstruction in the wrong way well over a year after the brutal battle hamlet that learning. how to live out how to get. the event had been postponed several times so that president deter take could attend. but in the end he doesn't show up. with leave mindanao with the feeling that regional autonomy will not amount to much unless the muslim minority see real improvements in their everyday lives and during poverty and discrimination would only keep the threat of islamist terror alive and render peace an empty promise her. first say. hello.

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