safely on their way. this is the news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire team thanks so much for being with us. to go beyond. the. call about the stories that matter to. us. whatever it takes. the running not cutting good enough that. you made for mines.

if you. did sir. there was good don't no one more out wait till burn to please let it go at 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. extremists him coming into the country from

other countries. i don't see as the british will never again will keep. them. it's a liberation of all this is just to eat i know incident of our liberation. the names in the blink of an eye and my children were gone and i will never see them again and that some bearable and tell you. what the president did in there always a good lesson. it is only if you get. a moment.

mean. move. move. move move move move move move move move move move move. move. move move. we're 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 have got involved in the conflict. with just a few 100 fighters it seized the mainly muslim town of mirali and held it for 5 months. the consequences were devastating. to the little girl the philippine president rodrigo to territory known for his brutal 0 tolerance approach proceeded to bomb the city. in a. little. while we want to find out how it was possible for us to gain

a foothold in the philippines. and. we meet someone who witnessed the battle for murali 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 this is how terrorism plays its part because it can explode could break out at any time and we're going to run out of not holding look mon is a historian and a member of a powerful muslim family nonetheless he asked 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.

and. is not allowed to enter his house. not all the booby traps and explosive devices in the area have been cleared away. soldier 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. this used to be the central mosque. he used to come here a lot stay here and pray for the dead.

artillery mortar pick up their gunships jet fighters. everything wests used to bomb this place. i was watching it the whole time it's my 12 day something troubling here. there was a time on the 2nd day and think my brother went to general bautista. and us going to stop the bombings but the army rejected that because they say. they can handle the situation. fontanes they were not able to handle the situation. taken down. on may 23rd 2017 government forces responded swiftly and harshly.

in this type of warfare you have to flush out the enemy from a defensive position. if you look at the experience of. the aleppo. all of this experienced bombings but in the case of. 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 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 where. after 12 days of seeing huge 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 the white building. a boy was blocking my path. i was right in that. ring and then when i got near. he recognized me and said no way. and i said what are you doing here i'm going. what are you doing here. i hope that he's even so proud of it and then after that he said this is no way that let them pass let them pass so. when i pass by a bear i saw some snipers there in that building putting bullets in their guns. were looking at me as if. but this they stopped firing and i felt so happy i mean you cannot explain experience down 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 $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. here stopped repeatedly at military checkpoints.

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. he says i mean let's i mean by those and the camp they taught us what the qur'an says they say is an eye for an eye. and we have the right to take revenge but i know i don't play as he has i've been in. the i.a.s. commanders launched the attack earlier than planned abdul wasn't in morocco at the time. you know.

when we heard that they had started fighting those of us outside. and we discussed how to get to the center. i mean. that i mean we tried 7 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 40 of his friends were killed none the less he could imagine joining battle again. so. we have an advantage because we 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 a. fight there or not only coming home. i wouldn't fight in morocco. or any other muslim area the same thing would happen again. only muslim people with. the battle took place somewhere else i was going. to do 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 morocco we were 2 brothers omar and abdullah mounted. 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 fighters. visiting me in my house and getting me to join them sometimes they told me please join us we will make you as our army. yes we will make us our leader actually when you have talking with me but there been letting you join us because we cannot trust

in them or it would have been governance because we are always betraying us yes so that's why i did become. back 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. to make the. guy stay that's why i told him it is impossible because even you. when this water but the a leg of the pit have been good but i mean. it if you see in iraq. joining. me again so what. you will loose. the sheriff run 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 these did but did ok you can bore down to one and more. actually in may on opinion this is the port of the i.c.c. but the governor of the go betterment also has

a point because did that allow us to negotiate with the. us. we accompany shareef to midday prayers in the mosque. feel. safe. muslims make up just 5 percent of the philippine population the majority are catholics almost all the muslims live on and you know all. sharif says that many here feel marginalized and abused by the philippine government a feeling only confirmed by the bombing of murali. 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 will know my strength comes from allah only from allah allah he keeps me alone. 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 asking 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. 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.r.s. fighters are they long dead. honest. i'm trying to hide my suffering from my other children. it turns 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 gunman among . people who can. be forgiven. most of the children in the displaced persons camps don't go to school most of the families are poor. memory 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

or just one of. the degrees 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 liaison 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 this infamy for us. that can never be repaired. nobody knows how many civilians were killed during the siege. so mere a 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 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. wait wait wait wait wait. what sense i asked burst on to the same 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 jaafari tells us of his determination to establish an a thomas homeland for his people found some moral. 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 with its own parliament government budget and islamic legal system . what is the reason why it's not always seems to happen if this because of this injustice this young people are never fed up that's why then. the girls were just more. of course when all. they isis. and they. better be our. side of the middle east. and. they believe. men are oppressed.

because. they're muslims are not satisfied. and. and mr maher administration narrates the development. we are allowed to visit the headquarters of the military wing of the liberation front. as peace. 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 de. people are kept in a saudi leads us by our current limited thought of people who really have become diminished the time that the isis with. the station. all the followers of the will go in for their good will and that they will become bigger. safe for 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 from the muslim majority region is implemented. what if not then they start to squeeze them and we will not. to commission our forces and we will not give up our fight arms which we promise that a government. of. the rebels take us on patrol. out in the marshes here there are still fighters loyal to i.a.s. lying low. 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 said in this is even forcing the peace process that's why i really thought us president did to because obey his pronouncement his actual. holy. attributed the words have been displaced that's why really but i suppose that instead. 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. and the only dust to combat looks after the small chapel the villages within the new bums and moro autonomous region. the possibility simply. not. 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. live in a manner you cannot bomb and he. said in that book i know that's why i'm scared when our duty is in town and not christians. who are in a me and madge look ok did that mean i'm a good i don't know of course i'm afraid that my robbery will happen again i saw what happened in mirali the city was destroyed and our livelihood would also be destroyed if this were to happen somewhere here in our area that he left the deadly income it was almost the entire we've got to 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 only said but yeah. unfortunately one woman who would be. 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 some of those you know live in 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 and you know most long as that's why we don't want them to rule in our community gets on them but that's 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 broke. muslims and christians are different than what i was of just simply had no. and once the

muslims rule they will make us the slaves and steal our harvest well and 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 moro islamic liberation front disapprove not of the cruelty but because it involves gambling.

we reached the biggest city in mindanao. president to take of today was mayor here for more than 20 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 502-0000. the next morning we meet an old friend and confidant of the president faces today

so. he invited us to see his fish farm. so this is what i got in my money beyond what they are being told there are more here than we think people really care. that. he's a busy politician so he soon heads back to the city. we'll arrange to meet him again later. 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. and many say that's thanks to run the territories tenure as mer. case used to race in agrees we meet him again at his waterfront resort he says to turn to is a man of action not words watch. the action that it takes that is how you measure him don't measure him by what comes out from the small he is doing to be unprecedented when he was mayor here for more than 20 years in this city that 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 all docs are drivers he would drive a taxi himself. how about guns ready and drive and go to places where hold ups are

usually happening here once also to 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. for you but. the research does p.r. for do terror tape when ever he can. for many years he was presidential peace advisor he explains the peace plan from mindanao to a group of visitors many of whom are fans of the president. once we. get. to the races says it's a very western point of view to accuse detail of abusing human rights and argues

that to turkey is so popular because he both pursues reconciliation and embodies toughness as he demonstrated with respect to murali. 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 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 to the locals. we head back to murali to meet not in look ma 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 mean more city has that in result. and hopefully a. recap now of herself this space fully without going through a war. like i said.

look man says he's going to run for deputy governor political developments over the coming months will prove decisive. little. that. 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 or many centuries or many to cage 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. was only. a matter of how. the event had been postponed several times so that president to turn to a critic tend. but in the end he doesn't show who. will leave mindanao with the feeling that regional autonomy will not amount to much unless the muslim minority see real improve. for months in their everyday lives. enduring poverty and discrimination would only keep the threat of islamist terror alive and render peace an empty promise her. first. love her.

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