75 years ago. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you china is moving to impose sweeping new national security goals that could limit opposition activity in hong kong the ruling communist party is said to discuss when they just nation when china's advil part of. the guidance to mark. sorry for that and you're up to date here and he doesn't use phone gail will be back on the days in 45 minutes till next time i write. a. little. 100. more every takes. you know running no. public service no good job made from arms.

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ideology that's foreign to us by extremists him coming into the country from other countries. i had seizures generations but he never did a full team of them. with. the supervision of all this is just eat i don't see many of our liberation. army in this clip in the blink of an eye my children were gone. i will never see them again and that something terrible. what the president did in there always a good lesson. this is only the beginning.

moos . 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 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. for. all the philippine president rodrigo to taft known for his brutal 0 tolerance approach proceeded to bomb the city. and.

we want to find out how it was possible. to gain a foothold in the philippines. we meet someone who witnessed the battle for murali the people they thought 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 plays its part because it can explode it would break out any time you are. not holding 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 for her. to come on 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 make. people here called the exclusion zone ground 0 of thousands have lost their homes.

this used to be the central mosque. he used to come here lock screen here and pray for the dead. far more helicopter gunships. west's. bombs. i was watching you the whole time with my 12 days of the troposphere. there was a time. my brother went to channel baathist. and us going to stop the bombings but the rejected because they say. they can't handle the situation. where they were not able to handle the situation. i am spiders had taken downtown the wrong way 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 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 ready 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. 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 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 no way. and i said what are you doing here i'm going to local police respond here what are you doing here. i'm fighting and he's even so proud of it and they're not that he said this is no way that let them pass let them pass so. when i passed by a bear i saw some snipers there in that building putting bullets in their guns. were looking at me as i did. but this they stopped firing and i felt so happy i

mean you cannot explain experience that in any other situation but. i i felt that elation i think that 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 are 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 have offered him money and a gun he says he trained in the jungle alongside local and foreign fighters. so yes i mean lots of millions but not enough and the country taught us what the qur'an says. is an eye for an eye. and we have the right to take revenge but then you're going to influence us i mean a lot of. the i ask commanders launched the attack earlier than planned abdul wasn't in morocco at the time. you know me and i mean

a christian when i say long. 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 our apostle. and i reckon minimum we 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 none the less he could imagine joining battle again. so putting him when i mean this must not have an advantage because we young people

just blend in with the population. of the military county easily identify which of us are fighters who know how to use a gun and giving them a fight there or not only coming on molokai my buddy. i wouldn't fight in iraq. or any other muslim area the same thing would happen again. only muslim people with those hats 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. finders in my role we were 2 brothers omar and. 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 reef 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 convincing me to join them sometimes they told me please join us we will make you as our army. yes he will make us our leader actually

when you have talking with me. been letting you join us because we cannot trust in him or people have been governors because they 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 mindanao. stay a try at the end it is impossible because even you know when this water but a leg of the pritikin go but i mean will not allow it if you have been in iraq. doing. anything so what. you will

lose. sorry front several religious schools in morale way 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 bore the.

accordion may on opinion this is the poor the day. but the gomery of the go betterment also has a point because it did not allow us to negotiate with the devil. we accompany show relief 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 mindanao or.

sure if says that many here feel marginalized and abused by the philippine government a feeling only confirmed by the bombing of murali 2. 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. thank you no no no my strength comes from allah only from allah he keeps me alone. and that. 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. for 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 asked fighters are they long dead. or still. trying to hide my suffering from my 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. i will go about that in every little my request and instead ask him to give me more years to live the gunmen the monk. who can. have a little group or who. will 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 terror to conduct of the campaign to retake marana. that's not liberation of all this is just a kind of announcement of her liberation but the real liberation is not living in this kind of the ways on this is not the way we were there 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 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. oh wait wait wait wait wait. but since i asked burst onto the scene the former archenemies the front and the government have become strategic allies. you know ringback jesuit right now. we need a rebel leader who played a key role in dialogue with the government under successive presidents. god's only john tells us of his determination to establish an autonomy homeland for his people

bangsamoro. negotiations lead to a deal codified in the bungs a more organic law the basis for the new bangsamoro autonomous region in muslim and to know with its own parliament government budget and islamic legal system. what is the reason why it is not always seems to happen if this because of a say in justice this young people are never fed up. that's why but then here come the group which is more militant. are perhaps there of course are in awe. of the isis. and they isis. fight the fight out. there to be our ally outside of the middle east. and.

they believe. mindanao or a place. that made their ally. because. they are muslims are not satisfied. but example are there so much corruption. their neighbor base and all that. and i miss my right ministership. noticed in the development. we are allowed to visit the headquarters of the military wing of the liberation front.

follows he's. 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 there. are people who need a saudi leads us but our credibility daughter people really become diminished. the isis was by his station. all the followers of the world had 0 in for their good will and the time that they can become bigger. 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. f. says it will disarm up to $30000.00 fighters once autonomy for the muslim majority region is implemented. if not then base that the scorn of the man we will not. need commission our forces and we will not give up our fight arms which we promised that a government. was . 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. he's telling us he's here in forcing the peace process that's why i really thought i was president the deputy because obey his pronouncement his actions and all the. attributed the words have been displaced that's why really but i suppose it is that. we ask ourselves who does the land really belong to to the muslims whose ancestors settled on mindanao in the 13th century or 2 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. yes. it's. the only does jakarta looks after the small chapel the villages within the new bums and moro autonomous region. 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. even a man. i mean was i'm alone. in that book i know that's why i'm scared when our date is in town and not christians. you're. more. experienced and imagine. that mean i'm a good i don't let up was my 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 daily income because

all i want to in. 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 the mine but with the my. family stood by. unfortunately on who would be 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 come out of this event even when 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 simply had. once the muslims rule they will make us their slaves and. harvest well but alan tell me what the local i'm going to look at. 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.

and. 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 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 today so he invited us to see his fish farm. so this is what i say wait a minute if you had what they are you go over there more here than we think you'd go for that care about that. oh he's a busy politician so he soon heads back to the city. we arranged to meet him again later.

is a mainly catholic city and it's striking how prosperous it appears to be compared to muslim communities in mindanao it is also considered the safest and cleanest city in the country. many say that's thanks to rob riggle 2 territories tenure as mer. case used to raise some agrees we need him again at his waterfront resort he says to tell is a man of action not words watch only what the das the option that it takes that is how you measure him don't measure him by what comes out from his smile he is doing to be unprecedented when he was mayor here for more than 20 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 and there are high incidence of holdups all

taxi drivers he would drive a taxi himself how about guns ready and drive and go to places where hold ups are usefully 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. for you but i like to research does p.r. for do terror taban 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. because it was usually . the case. that.

the races says it's a very western point of view to accuse the territory of abusing human rights and argues that paternity is so popular because he both pursues reconciliation and in bodies 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 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 not look mom again. he shows us the small museum

that his family sponsored. keith. 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 mari 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 there been resolved. and hopefully. we can resolve this peacefully without

going through a war. or let everything. look man says he's going to run for deputy governor political developments over the coming months will prove decisive. for. oh. the whole little bit. 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 of 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 like war and 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 let alone. made it out how. the event had been postponed several times so that president deter take could attend. but in the end he doesn't show up. we leave mindanao with a 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 life 1st and render peace an empty promise her. first.

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