abu sayyaf still had kevin and her cousin.uld kill them any time they wanted. >> and i felt her dark place, just being a mother myself. and it was awful. >> reporter: and before long her terror deepened. when she learned her cousin got out, too. which meant that there in that awful place, her 14-year-old son no one left to protect him was all alone. >> i remember seeing that picture of her that was in the news. and she looked so sad. she looked so sad and helpless. >> reporter: this is gerfa. and here, even five years later the memory is brutal. we brought her back here to the philippines and asked her to tell us her story. the story that began at 2:00 in the morning, at the end of a happy, family reunion, on a beach, just about like this one. >> it does take you back. you know, you can hear the water, the waves. you can feel the wind. you see the evening sky. the stars. >> it was a beautiful thing. >> oh, it was a beautiful morning. >> suddenly i saw from the left side two men running really fast, like, on the sand. with some

he said there is concern the group or members of abu sayyaf might pop up in another town or city in mindanaopa, the new people's army, the communist armed group. back in november, peace talks fell through with president duterte, and he declared they are a terrorist group. so there are fears there might be trouble from the npa, so the government wants martial law for another year, to contain these issues. this martial law extension got a lot of support in congress, but it wasn't unanimous. what were some of the concerns of the opposition regarding extending it until the end of 2018? yeah, the vote was 240 in favour, 27 against. the opposition senators and congressmen, their issues really were that this could really be a throwback to martial law in the 1970s, under ferdinand marcos. of course, we must remember, back then there were something like 70,000 cases of human rights abuses, tortures, killings, abductions — a nasty period for the philippines. so there's concern that if you can start to have martial law in the south of the country, it could spread nationwide, and opposition senator fran