Four Years On: Healing Delayed is Healing Denied

Recently, October 16 marked the day when, four years ago, a protracted siege that created a huge humanitarian crisis and which had shattered the lives of Marawi citizens came to an end. Or at least, that could be said of the hostilities.

Marawi Siege: Nothing to celebrate, but mourning

Exactly three years ago, on May 23, 2017, terror struck Marawi, the Islamic city in the Philippines and dubbed the summer capital of the country’s south. An estimated 1,000 Islamic State-inspired Maute group and allied terrorists laid a siege on Marawi City. It took government forces five months to drive them out, with extensive shelling and bombing leaving the Islamic city in shambles, with thousands of lives lost and tens of thousands of residents displaced.

Title bragging is the worst form of hypocrisy

I wish I had the ability to understand why there are people who are proud raising eyebrows just because they hold positions they don't deserve: They do nothing and nothing else of what they are paid for, or privileged for. 

Fail not our fathers: defend the homeland

Marawi before the 2017 siege.

MARAWI SIEGE: Ground Zero remains ruined; displaced,families suffer in tents