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other countries. i use. really never anything. but. just supervision of all this is just to eat i know incident of our liberation. going. on in this could land in the blink of an eye and my children will go. i will never see them again and that some bearable. but. what the president is a good lesson. has only been to get. from. the.

room you man with whom move. move to me. we are on mindanao the 2nd 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 100000 have been killed over the past decades. may 2017 saw a catastrophic development the self-proclaimed islamic state also known as i got involved in the conflict. with just a few 100 fighters it seems the mainly muslim town of mirali and held it for 5 months. the consequences were devastating. for. all the philippine president rodrigo do character known for his brutal 0 tolerance approach proceeded to bomb the city. and. we want to find out how it was possible for i.a.s.

to gain a foothold in the philippines. from. every we meet someone who witnessed the battle for morale we the people thank god it's a joke how can you attack a city. and they cost tens of thousands of people. it's unthinkable but it happened and that this is how terrorism places but because it can explode could break out at any time and we've learned to not look mom 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 200000.

the 1st. thank you 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 called the exclusion zone ground 0 tens of thousands have lost their homes. that's the whole thing with. this used to be the central mosque. he used to come here and stay here and pray for

the dead. artillery marked our helicopter gunships jet fighters. fighter's ever thought of west's use to me bombs but i was watching it the whole time but in my 12 days of entrapment here. there was a time under secondary i think my brother went to channel battiste. and us came to stop the bombings but the army rejected that because they say. they can't handle the situation. means they were not able to tell the situation. i am spiders had taken downtown murali on may 23rd 2017 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 hour when we did the bombings it was been pointed to specific targets only. the battle lasted 5 months more than a 1000 people were killed for the armed forces it was the toughest battle since the 2nd world war i as terrorists took hostages and murdered christians.

desperate terrified people sought shelter on no dene the property both muslims and christians. if 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 see. 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 are. right in the middle of mosul or. or in damascus where. after 12 days of siege food and water were running out in morocco. look

man whose nickname is norway decided to flee with those he had been sheltering. in front of the town white building. a boy was blocking my path. i was right in that basketball ring and then when i got near. he recognized me and said no way. and i said what are you doing here i know he's in the group he's from there what are you doing here. i find it to help him if he's even so proud of it and they're not that he said this is no way let's let them pass let them pass so. when i pass by there i saw some snipers there in that building putting bullets in their guns. looking at me as if. 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 and i didn't i

think it's almost divine. i'm still alive and people are alive nobody got hurt that's ok thank god. look man became the hero of harare he led more than $150.00 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 thanked. me. here stopped repeatedly at military checkpoints.

i. wanted posters for suspected i asked terrorists are everywhere. who are they. and what do they want. we meet abdul he was recruited at the age of 17 he didn't have a job i asked offered him money and a gun he says he trained in the jungle alongside local and foreign fighters. says i mean lots of means but i love and the company taught us what the qur'an says . an eye for an eye. and we have the right to take revenge and they're going to claims i've been in. the i ask commanders launched the attack earlier than planned abdul wasn't in morocco at the time. you know mean alarm and i'm in a christian when i say long. but. when we heard that they had started fighting

those of us outside iraq the mass and we discussed how to get to the center. i mean. now that i mean i'm a tried 7 times we even used motor boats to try to get in from the lake but it didn't work by a. lot of the. past information about the movement of government troops to his eye as comrades inside the besieged city by cell phone he tells us that 40 of his friends were killed nonetheless he could imagine joining battle again. so stopping him going i mean this must not have an advantage because we are young people just blend in with the population. the military conti's really identify

which of us are fighters who know how to use a gun and having no alabama fighter or and i don't know coming on molokai my buddy . i said. i wouldn't fight in the robbery again or in any other muslim area and the same thing would happen again. only muslim people would get hurt but if the battle took place somewhere else i would join somalia. have dual 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 2 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 conscious raef 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 we will make you us our army. yes he will make us all our leader actually when you have talking with media said but they'll be letting you join us because we

cannot trust in them or people have been governors because we are always betraying us so that's why they 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 mend and now. it is impossible because. when this water but a leg of the predicted go but me will not allow it if you see have been in iraq. doing. their thing so what.

sorry front several religious schools in murali he says the kind of islam they teach is peaceful and has nothing in common with i.a.s. 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 president did use did by the. ok you can bore the one and more. authority in may on opinion this is the part of the i.c.c. but goldberg the go betterment also has

a point because did that allow us to negotiate with the devil. we accompany shareef to midday prayers in the mosque. safe. muslims make up just 5 percent of the philippine population the majority are catholics almost all the muslims live on and now all. 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 8 children since the battle erupted she hasn't seen 4 of them. and you know when i won a lot of my strength comes from allah only from allah he keeps me alone. and putting almost before i could hear my children's voices but not anymore. before in the middle of the night at 1 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 4 who have gone missing 3 girls and a boy were all in qur'an school when the fighting began. fatima and the 4 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 still. trying to hide my suffering from the other children. there are times when i pray to god to ask him to take my knowing. that when i see my children. i still so young.

i will go about going to go my request and instead ask him to give me more years to live the look on when the young. one. who can think of people who have a little over who. most of the children in the displaced persons camps don't go to school most of the families are poor. family an important person has come to visit some miracle talk she's running for the senate and if she wins she will be the 1st muslim senator in a quarter of a century she's critical of the way to turn take conducted the campaign to retake.

the thought liberation of all of this is just the kind of announcement of our liberation but the real liberation is not living in this kind of the ways one this is not the way we were this is not the kind of life we want this is not the kind of freedom that we want for children missing amongst 1000 people missing is not an achievement it is a moral disaster it's in funny it is infamy for us. that can never be repaired. nobody knows how many civilians were killed during the siege. so mira go talk to take some. 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 my ra is a failed decision on 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. oh wait wait wait wait. but since i asked burst onto the scene the former archenemies the front and the government have become strategic allies. we need a rebel leader who played a key role in dialogue with the government under successive presidents. god's only jaafari tells us of his determination to establish an a thomas homeland for his people bongs a moral. negotiations lead to a deal codified in the bungs

a more organic law the basis for the new bangsamoro autonomous region in muslim mindanao with its own parliament government budget and islamic legal system. what is there is and why it is not always seems to happen it is because of this injustice this young people are they are fed up. that's why i am then here come the group which is more militant. perhaps their. of course are in awe. of the isis. and they isis. play. better be our ally. outside of the middle east. and. they believe. men are oppressed. can't meet their allah

because. the muslims are not satisfied. and. minister. in the event. we are allowed to visit the headquarters of the military wing of the liberation front. for us. the chief of staff isn't in uniform

a sign perhaps of the shift from armed struggle to political action and responsibility. we ask what might happen if the project of autonomy doesn't go well . then maybe they. people are kept in a saudi leads us but our creativity did a lot of people really become de minimus that's the time that the isis with. his station. all the followers of the will go in for their good will and the time that they can become bigger let's. say. for 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 i l f says it will disarm up to $30000.00 fighters once autonomy for the muslim majority region is implemented. but what if not then they start the support of the men we will not. nicol mission our forces and we will not also give up our fight arms which we promised that a government. 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 movements 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. he's telling us he's even forcing diffuse process that's why you really put us president the deputy because obey his pronouncement his action and all these. attributed the words have been displace that's why i really think that us president that. we ask ourselves who does the land really belong to to the muslims whose ancestors settled on mindanao in the 13th 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 100 families live here they're all catholic. the only dusk to combat looks after the small chapel the villages within the new bangsamoro autonomous region. the 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 empowered and what they can do to us. even a minor one and not bomb and i mean what's our moon said in that book i know that's why i'm scared when i do this in town and not christians. who are 8. and imagine. that we now are good i don't let that was much 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 that we let the daily income equal so i want to in our. life here. we don't want to be evacuated we don't want to live without direction

and they don't remember was a light in a mine but with the man. whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa we're hearing. 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 1906. many here don't trust muslims for the love of see many of them but when muslims come to our village says no problem but when we go to where they are they want to cut off our heads well let me in. the middle i mean the most along as that's why we don't want them to rule in our community that it's on them but that's the attitude of muslims is very different from our christian attitude. the one knock on money it's terrifying. what will happen to our children when we have to live under muslim broke. muslims and christians are different of the mother wasn't just simply had. and once the

muslims rule they will make us the slaves and steal our harvest well but i won't tell me what. i'm going to welcome. 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 biggest city in mindanao. president to territory was mayor here for more than 20 years. this is where he began his notorious war on drugs seemingly deploying the police as extrajudicial hitman. estimates of the number of people killed ranged between 502-0000. the next morning we meet an old friend and confidant of the president his source

today said. he invited us to see his fish farm. because so this is what i think my money beyond what they are earning over there and more here than. here but. he's a busy politician so he soon heads back to the city. we arranged to meet him again later. he. 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 run territories tenure as mer. case used to raise some agrees we meet him again at his waterfront resort he says to turn to is a man of action not words watch only what the doc's the option that it takes that is how you measure him don't measure him by what comes out from his small doing the unprecedented when he was mayor here for more than 20 years in this city the plus 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 with kids gloves and all that maybe you will just prolong the agony. and the research does p.r. for do terror tape when ever he can. for many years he was a presidential peace advisor he explains the peace plan from mindanao to a group of visitors many of whom are fans of the president. who was easily. the races says it's a very western point of view to accused of abusing human rights and argues that to

tertius 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 but don't play around with this country i have been in the peace process under several presidents and we have not moved it as far as we have this time the president feels that we can improve as a nation if we try to give more authority and power for the locals. we head back to murali to meet nordin look mom again. he shows us the small museum that his family sponsored.

the central exhibit is a painting depicting a battle between muslims and spanish colonizers who arrived in the 16th century and were the 1st christians to settle in mindanao. what happened in my our city is a continuation of the colonial war against our people. and that is what's happening now. and until now the circle i don't want city has the end result. and healthfully. recap for solve this peacefully without going through a war. like this i said. look

man says he's going to run for deputy governor political developments over the coming months will prove decisive. for a little. while will. 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 or many decades for many generations . most of the problems that are being solved in mindanao has to go to war. every don't want war and war but if it comes then so be it.

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. well it looks. completely out of. the event had been postponed several times so that president to take pretty tend. but in the end he doesn't show up. we leave mindanao with the feeling that regional autonomy will not amount to much unless the muslim minority see real. improvements in their everyday lives. enduring poverty and discrimination would only keep the threat of islamist terror a life and render peace an empty promise her. first. hit.

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