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 the painting depicting a battle between muslims and spanish colonizers who arrived in the sixteenth century and were the first 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 this is the circle i don't want city has the end result and healthfully. 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. the. political 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 wa

we need someone who witnessed the battle for murali to people they thought is a joke how can you attack a city. and take cost tens of thousands of people. it's unthinkable but it happened and this is how terrorism plays its part because it can explode with a breakout any time before your boyfriend is not holding look maan 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 two hundred thousand but. 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 call the exclusion zone ground zero tens of thousands have lost their homes. this used to be the central mosque. he used to come here and stay here and pray for the dead. artillery mortar helicopter gunships jet fighters. everything west's. bombs. i was watching it the whole time but my twelve days of entrapment here. there was a time on this second day and th

president to a territory where you were there you were filming of course in mindanao and and also murali was that like how difficult of a task was that well when we were filming in iraq obviously will go and allow it to move freely it's still a military exclusion zone so there were always soldiers by our side and they determined where we could go and what the quick phone and how long we could stay equally if we joined the rebels like you saw that they took us on for told a patrol obviously it was a program they designed for us and also then their territory they basically decided what we could film and how long we could stay but other than that we thought people were really friendly very easy to talk to but of course there is that threat and we were never quite sure. now the philippines it doesn't seem to be getting as much attention as the battle against the so-called islamic state in syria and iraq itself or other countries joining in this effort at all is there an attention being paid now to the philippines i think the united states very much base attention in terms of providing intell