to tell her harrowing story 858-7063. 45 minutes on d w. instead as most girls took it over now live i'm sure that it was as we are also. the most insubordinate. about saving but still walk over. to believe that. the. us will never thought he'd come out alive he was sure he would die here buried

under the ruins of morale we city. at night i hear noises and have nightmares. i keep thinking someone will take revenge on me and kill me. my conscience won't let me sleep because of what i've done here and. good so much. as a former commander of the so-called islamic state he fought against the philippine army the islamic state had designated morale the city to be its future caliphate and asia. for the 1st time since the end of the war 2 years ago as you will has returned to the city. my men were positioned here in these buildings. i had 3 or 4 armed men each of those houses keeping watch.

you had to run when asked in the street to avoid the snipers. they were positioned on the roofs of their. we put together explosives in this mosque here. that's the passageway to the basement. here's where we kept the hostages. we use this card to supply the fighters with any nation. to practically anywhere in the city. the eye as had promised him a decent earning and a good life for his family after 6 weeks of fighting he still hadn't seen

a single pay so he surrendered the state forces offered him the equivalent of 430 euros to give up fighting now he's been released. this is i regret what i've done. you can't trust the islamic state. they promise you a better life but in the end the only thing you can expect from them is death. may 2017 the islamic state was losing ground in iraq and syria and so it tried to expand to asia. on the island of mindanao muslim separatists had been fighting for regional autonomy for decades. many of them joined the jihadist group and swore allegiance to the i.r.s. . heavily armed and financed by the ransom money they had been extorting for years they took over morale the city the largest muslim city in the country. untrained in

urban warfare it took the philippine armed forces 5 months to recapture it. are. in this brutal battle alone 1000 jihad is 47 civilians and 168 soldiers lost their lives. one 3rd of the city was laid to waste . since the end of the conflict in 2017 life in the intact part of murali city has resumed but its 200000 inhabitants fear fresh attacks should the jihadists return. today what was supposed to become the asian capital of the caliphate is mostly a long line of checkpoints. where your papers here at home. don't forget them next time.

the government has sent 2000 soldiers and 3000 police officers to the region to increase the pressure on the jihadists who still haven't surrendered. the police have been searching for them for years. those who turn themselves in are 1st brought to the army's regional headquarters at the run now military camp here. these 3 former i asked fighters surrendered a month ago. as the battles engulfed mirali city they informed the ins of the army's whereabouts. so what did you do before you joined the i.a.s. . you know i was a farmer. and me too i was a farmer in manila. the union there what are your families think about you having

joined the i asked. they're angry very angry they can't understand. our life just isn't the same anymore. one by my family treats me like an outcast a member of their. families afraid of you. i mean. who hasn't surrendered. are you sure i don't know. but you know what happens to them if we catch them in the afternoon that. we now have 160. former fight their school fought here in what i was seeking some of them are sympathizers so. first goal a process. to try to be involved

in the siege or in the or. those. that say for murder is for straight that murder. huge. over to the local government unit to the mayor or to the governor or most of them are back in their communities already. 30 percent of. the population survives on less than. the majority of. economic ideological. terrorists recruited on the shores of.

entire families. and we can't. past and they fear revenge. and their 13 year old son nor owned a shop before the war broke out. those sons seemingly join the i asked in 2017 they promised my husband that if we did they would pay off our debts well i am only a mother. at that time we owed our distributors over 15000 euros. or 100 we spent our days with them praying and training with weapons it was all for nothing. so why the money by money as soon as we realized they had no intention of

paying off our debts we decided to turn ourselves then. we never saw a single peso. i wish i could own a shop again so i could support my family. but i can't because i have to remain in hiding. if my former suppliers find me or if the i.r.s. finds me i'm a dead man. i'd like to finish my education and then join the military to fight the terrorists. and. to gather new recruits the i as preyed upon those with a lower education and a more trustful nature. one

month before the fighting broke out 16 year old found himself in voluntarily in the jihad ists ranks since he had forced him to work for them he stayed exempt from punishment after he successfully fled. he's the only one who dares speak openly in front of the camera. one i'm going to get out of here go away. along. with. my uncle fi's all sent me tomorrow always city to learn arabic. but once i got there i realized he had meant something entirely different. i was with the i.a.s. i made them. this one of the men was dressed in black. he told me that my uncle had sold me for 400 euros. and. they took me to a training camp in p.r. . i stayed there for 14 days and learned how to fight.

one night around 2 am i pretended to get up to use the bathroom. door. that's how i managed to escape while everyone else was asleep if you don't i mean i love you will. be today is free but all the others he met at the camp or dead. for the past 2 years he's been living with his uncle the same uncle who sold him to the i.r.s. . but by now he's forgiven him. by and i mean this is where we live i mean. this is our kitchen. and this is a corner. but there she had been. had not only sold his nephew to the terrorists but even his own son.

one day these well dressed men showed up and offered me money before i agreed to let the boys study abroad so i did but i never suspected that they were from you know yes i gave me 800 euros you know 400 for my son and 400 for my nephew i'm getting. you know. a few weeks later a friend told me they were being forced to work for the i.r.s. . not quite somebody sizes. first i didn't tell my wife anything and i was so ashamed faisal swears he was tricked but his 10 smile makes us wonder. his wife sheila had no part in the decision she left him but one year later she came back and forgave him. in the

lab and he didn't tell me at 1st that he had sold them when he did it was too late because he'd already taken the money. by my son kyle he was just 10 years old and i mean when we discovered he was being forced to fight in morocco we city we were panicked. there was shootings and bombing runs throughout the entire city. in this yeah dogs and or. 2 weeks after the siege began i contacted the rescue forces and i found my son. had been hiding and was completely traumatised. his eyes were like that i like yeah my it's my memory when he came home or even the slightest noise would frighten him. he would run into a corner and stop crime. and i mean we didn't know what to do. although i did was cry. he could still hear the shootings in the explosions.

yeah he never recovered and he stopped eating and eventually he died on me up now my face yeah. many were tricked by the i.r.s. but some joined voluntarily. one of them was fido a former i.r.s. recruiter. still only 18 she's already a war criminal. for 350 euros a month she sent dozens of men to their deaths she knows she faces a life behind bars if she were to turn herself in. but she did agree to an interview. she hopes that the young people of mirali city might learn from her story. i spent one

year with the islamic state. at 1st i only recruited people from my circles of friends and. if i didn't know them i would try to make friends with them and to gain their trust. then i would tell them about our organization and explain to them that we were fighting for islam. and for muslims rights. in total i recruited about 35 years. ago was you know at 1st i offered them 175 euros. but then after the siege began i offered them $400.00 euros. and i was ashamed but i i really thought i was doing the right thing. now i regret what i did but then having. i have brought shame to my family the van down

the street and but the net income me. and. the whole i don't want to go to jail so i'm still so young i was all fine. i wish i could finish my education and get a degree. by that post. but the people of her always city are furious they blame those who have returned from the fighting for killing their own brothers and for bringing shame to the region to them it makes no difference if they joined i.a.s. of their own free will or were exploited or even manipulated. unlike in iraq or syria in this part of southeast asia the islamic state has never been able to rely on a large ethnic group most here are catholic the the

hutchie haroon is the imaam at one of the few mosques of the city it was spared during the fighting there he speaks on behalf of his community now i'd never been in the church and again those men in black. leggy they destroyed our country and they destroyed our city. they killed their own people. first they beheaded them. i believe. they even beheaded policemen and soldiers. i am. i could never forgive them. we will never forgive them for what they did to us. the philippine republic is trying to avoid a new bloodbath on the island at all costs president blood rico detaches government encourages peace and national reconciliation. the army recruits former high ranking

i as fighters and offers to forego their sentence if they provide vital information in return. even joined the i.s.i. out of conviction but 6 months ago he turned himself and. he had been the right hand of aboud dar leader of the i.a.s. in southeast asia with a 100000 euro bounty on his head. this was our leader. i was like a son to him. i was his bodyguard. i went wherever he went. thanks to the information even provided abu dar was tracked down and killed. since

then this was the 1st time the young man dared to speak in public. no more no delayed i was recruited on july 10th 2018. the i.a.s. wanted new recruits to continue the fight against the philippine army. i had to wait 2 months before they finally took me and. then i became dollars right hand man . he give me money to handle logistics and get food and weapons. you know. my bed was right next to his. we had together starved together were bitten by mosquitoes and suffered the cold. one day i decided to escape with 3 others. there had been too many innocent victims . and i wanted to help the army. that's why i guarded the soldiers to our camp

it was hidden up in the mountains. but when we got there nobody was there. we followed their tracks and found him in a nearby village. shots were fired and daughter was killed. if the i.r.s. found out what i do now they'd kill me but they wouldn't shoot me with a gun they behead me with a machete i mean these are again. no one knows if even one ever received the 100000 euros reward. so far $1600.00 former i.r.s. fighters have surrendered they are encouraged to join a social and economic reintegration program it was launched a year ago and is headed by the military. 8 kilometers from are always city in the village of raw in fields have taken over where ruins used to be. here former

i his fighters are taking part in the peace crops program a few weeks of field work in the peaceful countryside to help them leave the i asked behind now everything what are you planting. who shoots. it up i mean these are beans i think they're anabelle they are like those over there. but i'm going to say though yeah i mean you know how far are they spaced apart oh not far enough and some of that the spaces are you planted too many. these 2 rows are good but don't throw anything in the middle. if you look at the profile of those who were recruited read the islamic state and you would see that most of them are actually farmers and in this setting you would really understand that if you have no irrigation if you do not have the technology and the competence to forum then probably it will be very interesting for you to join the i.a.s.

what we're trying to do here is to social economic to the empower the communities inside conflict ridden areas so they would have enough capacity to sustain on a daily basis by doing these activity by doing the farming activity we already do sing their vulnerability to very truth and in exchange for food money or other systems. would you come in that stick and how did mine into equal rows. shouldn't be too close or too far apart. when what i've been to get. on the go and then you put the seeds into the groups and again you say they say so and you can go ahead and plant several at a time. you know just trying to keep them 2 and a half centimeters apart. make sure to pay attention to the rules we're good at the us about because. there are 3 farms like this one on the outskirts of

mirali city every day roughly 100 x. fighters and their families come here between 5 and 9 in the morning before the heat becomes unbearable. alex is the most recent member to join the program he's only been here a week. alex is a former fighter and he was also among those who joined the siege of morale we did 1017 he surrendered to government forces and he actually has one of his sons killed inside the main battle area. and. i have 6 children. boy i joined because we didn't have anything to eat. but i regret that now. it got me nowhere and it destroyed my life. i love farming with the others helps

me think about something else for a while. i mean i think i hope that this way i can offer my family a better and happier life. a leg enemy and media. all those who have returned from the fighting dream of a new future a new life even after having done unspeakable things. but the ruins of merari city still bear witness to their victims. reconstruction is slow and leaves behind ugly wounds in which the i.r.s. can fester. some say that i as recruiters on the other side of lake lanao are now offering families 3000 euros if they join.

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