Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Timuay Ronaldo Ambangan (second from right) holds the white rooster that will be offered in a ritual for another year of peace in the indigenous community of Aroman, Carmen, Cotabato.
“Do not bring your wars in our lands. Leave our ancestral domain”. This is the impassioned message of Timuay (…)
Reclaim, Defend and Promote Human Rights for All at All Times
A Declaration of the Mindanao-wide Conference against Martial Law
We, the 103 Bangsamoro, Mindanao Migrants and Indigenous People delegates of the Mindanao Conference Against Martial Law representing 44 organizations coming from (…)
, by GOTINGA JC
Marawi City, Philippines - With this city won back from pro-ISIL fighters, military troops have begun their gradual exit, allowing civilian officials and journalists to enter the blockaded central district where most of the fighting took place.
The view that unfolded was staggering: five (…)
, by Al Jazeera, REGENCIA Ted
The Philippine government has officially declared an end to the siege in the southern city of Marawi, ending five months of heavy clashes against ISIL-linked fighters and paving the way to recovery for a town left with more than $1bn worth of destruction.
Defence chief Delfin Lorenzana made (…)
, by GAVILAN Jodesz
After two of the top leaders of local terrorists are killed in Marawi City, is the lifting of martial law in Mindanao coming anytime soon? Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana says they will make an assessment first before sending recommendations to President Rodrigo Duterte.
MANILA, Philippines (…)
, by IPVoice
The Independent Indigenous Peoples’ Voice (IPVoice) is an autonomous body of 21 Mindanao Lumad tribes that pursues the indigenous peoples’ peace agenda to the peace processes between the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as well as the Communist Party of (…)
, by ALONTO Robert Maulana Marohombsar
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 07 August) — [Note: Upon his assumption to the caliphate after the demise of the Holy Prophet of Islam (saw), Hazrat Abubakr as-Siddiq (ra) told the Muslim throng in Madina that attended his investiture: “Correct me when I am wrong and support me when I am (…)
MANILA, Philippines - Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr., the man tagged in Kuratong Baleleng-led crimes, smuggling and drug trafficking, met a violent death before dawn yesterday as police conducted a series of raids on the family’s homes.
Aside from the mayor, his wife Susan, brother (…)
, by ANGELI SABILLO Kristine, MANGOSING Frances
The United States has turned over rocket motors and rockets to the Philippine Air Forces to aid in the government’s counterterrorism efforts.
The US Embassy in Manila said on Saturday that “officials from the Joint United States Military Assistance Group (JUSMAG) recently delivered 1,040 (…)
, by DATU-RAMOS Maki T.
“Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.”- Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 21 July) — “Our house in Raya (…)
, by DE SILVA Raymund
Bomb! Burn! Build! This can be the briefest description one can have today in what has happened and possibly will happen to the only Islamic City of the pre-dominantly Christian country. The siege of Marawi is nearing its second month. The country’s security sector has been surprised that it (…)
, by ALINDOGAN Jamela
Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan writes about her journey when covering the battle for control of Marawi.
Night veils Marawi’s face again.
It is Ramadan and the minarets are silent. The call to prayers have been replaced by the sounds of artillery bombs.
My back hurts from the flak jacket, (…)
, by DE SILVA Raymund
The Context
Veni, Vidi, Vici, a famous pre-Christ Latin (47BC) saying of Julius Caesar, which means “I came, I saw, I conquer” can still be very appropriate today when one refers to what has happened to Isnilon Hapilon the self-proclaimed ISIS Emir in Southeast Asia. But, as it has been (…)
, by DAVID Randy
One of the key issues the Supreme Court will be deliberating on in the coming days is whether there was rebellion or invasion in Marawi or any other part of Mindanao prior to the May 23 proclamation of martial law in the whole region. As the only valid grounds for martial law recognized by the (…)
, by DE SILVA Raymund
The Context
The longest and the most serious take over in a Southeast Asian country by ISIS inspired Jihadists has entered its fifth week. It has already displaced more than 70,000 families or around 350,000 individuals of the City of Marawi, the bastion of the Islamic faith in the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines. According to the Philippine government’s Joint Task Force Marawi the latest death toll has reached 475 of which 380 from the Islamists, 69 from the AFP/PNP and 26 from (...)
, by TUBEZA Philip
US Special Forces are providing crucial battlefield information to Filipino military commanders directing the fight against terrorists in Marawi City, a military spokesperson said on Wednesday.
“There are some US personnel who are operating equipment to provide information on situation (…)
, by TUBEZA Philip
US Special Forces are providing crucial battlefield information to Filipino military commanders directing the fight against terrorists in Marawi City, a military spokesperson said on Wednesday.
“There are some US personnel who are operating equipment to provide information on situation (…)
, by Reuters
US forces provide support to clear militants from Marawi, but Manila insists there are no American ‘boots on the ground’.
Bomb blasts have rocked Marawi City in the southern Philippines as the national flag was raised to mark independence day, almost three weeks after hundreds of Islamist (…)
, by OSBORNE Samuel
It is unclear whether the country’s pro-American military went over the President’s head in seeking US help.
President Rodrigo Duterte has said he was “not aware” US special forces had joined the battle to defeat Isis militants besieging a town in the southern Philippines.
Mr Duterte said (…)
, by Al Jazeera
US confirms it is ’assisting’ Philippine army in besieged Marawi where fighting broke out more than two weeks ago.
At least 13 Philippine marines were killed on Friday as the battle against fighters linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) continued in the (…)
Twitter
Facebook