#siege of marawi

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Philippine Army Special Forces Regiment (Airborne) battle IS-linked militants in Marawi, 2017. Dig that tiger-stripe camo!

[kiiraes]

idk if anyone will know ab this but it wont hurt to try </3 would anyone know about the siege of marawi in 2017?

i dont really understand much though ive tried to read about it. i was fairly young when i saw it on the news

i also am not very polished at distinguishing if a source is biased or not especially if its vague so id really like it if someone could try to help me out !

[arkipelagic]

Residents marched through former bombed-out streets in Marawi City on Tuesday calling for the Israeli armed forces to stop the airstrikes on Gaza.

Video clips posted by Marawi civic leader Drieza Lininding on Facebook showed around 100 residents shouting “Palestine is Free” as they carried Palestinian flags in a protest march in downtown Marawi.

Speaker after speaker condemned the attack during the rally in Barangay Poblacion.

“When we saw the TV news footage of Israeli planes bombing Gaza City, it brought back memories of Marawi City being bombed during the 2017 siege,” Lininding said.

He added that they assailed the Israeli government for desecrating the Al-Aqsa compound, a revered mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

Lininding said they likened the desecration of Al-Aqsa mosque to the 2017 entry of former President Rodrigo Duterte and soldiers to the Grand Mosque, also a revered Muslim site in Marawi City, during the five-month siege.

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The Millionaire's Village

This is the Millionaire’s Village of Marawi City. Before the Marawi Siege in 2017, this used to be one of the most expensive residential areas in the city. It’s their equivalent of Forbes Park…

We are currently building a water treatment plant (WTP) here. To be honest, I feel like we should be building a resort there, not a WTP. It's so beautiful here!

[littlestpersimmon]

Right wing media are using the attacks on Marawi to spread islamophobic rhetoric. For context, the southernmost part of the Philippines, Mindanao, is a conflict zone. Many of the people residing in Mindanao are Muslims. 94% of the Philippines' Muslims live there- Now, much of the philippines' government power is centralized in the north- where there is a cultural Christian hegemony.

There have been several sieges and genocides in Mindanao, in places like Marawi and Palembang- many of the atrocities that have happened there have been catalysts for past presidents to declare dictatorship, or martial law.

You may know that the president who carried out these past genocides- his son is now the current president.

The point is. Mindanao has received the brunt of Northern philippine fascism and brutality, and today, an explosion in a university in Marawi, aforementioned city in Mindanao, killed four students during a Christian mass. There is no information on who has done this, and why this happened, but because most of the populace are Muslims, islamophobes and right wing news outlets are going to town. Zionists on twitter already got their hands on this piece of news and creating more "anti-terror" propaganda. Our president is blaming "foreign terrorists" after accepting palestinian refugees. Please be vigilant.

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The story, which was developed by both Eve and Gogu since October 2023, is partly rooted in the childhood of Eve, a Mindanao native who had grown up with the violence of the Marawi conflict. As the daughter of a Filipino army man, Eve had been exposed to the conflict from a different perspective. Although she too grew up with the intimate and brutal reality of violence, her circumstances did not allow her to view the occupation from the perspective of the oppressed Muslims. Her reality was one that shielded her from understanding the conflict more complexly; thus, in her childhood, she viewed Muslims as aggressors without realising what prompted them to initiate the struggle for an independent state. Through visualising the displacement of the Maranao Muslims in Walay Balay, Eve expresses the inter-connectivity between their alienation to the larger alienation of the many peoples of the Philippines, who have been uprooted from their indigenous consciousness by the violence of colonialism.

“It is clear and important to me to see the story of the Muslim refugees because the Philippines was not a Christian country before the Spanish colonisation. Our ancestors were forced to convert to Christianity so they cannot be seen as enemies of the colonisers. Our ancestors who once owned the land and their identity eventually became lost in their own land stripped away of their own name. In a way, this is my way of telling that tragic, part of our history through our characters who lost their home and are in  search of their identities.” – Eve Baswel

The siege of Marawi, one of the oldest Islamic cities in Mindanao, happened in 2017 when ISIS collapsed the local government, occupied the city, and was warring against the Filipino government for nearly 5 months. Due to the violent conflict, many of the city’s residents had to evacuate, displacing nearly 300,000 people from their ancestral soil. Even after the reclamation of Marawi by the government, the Maranao Muslim refugees who had returned to their native land had been met with many bureaucratic difficulties. Till today, nearly 7 years after the conflict, many Maranao Muslims have not been properly relocated by the government. Due to the strong anti-colonial history that the Mindanao region has in fighting against the imperial subjugations of the Spanish, the Maranao people also refuse to bow to the hegemonic reign of the Catholic-dominated Filipino government, which is aggressively trying to centralise the Filipino landscape against the will of the masses. A way in which the government tries to claim power over the land is by demanding registered land permits from the residents of Marawi, who, in defiance of this neocolonial bureaucracy, refuse to abide by the self-made rules that the puppet government imposes on their rightful native land, a revolutionary spirit they have critically carried on since struggling against the violence of Spanish and American colonialism.

“Displacement is not new to us,” says Gogu, referring to how, as a descant of indentured Tamils who at first faced uprooting from their ancestral land in Tamil Nadu, and once again during the aftermath of colonialism, from the plantations, he too can understand the struggles of displacement, but he states that to him, the uprooting that Maranao Muslims have faced is far worse than the displacement of Plantation Tamils, for the Maranao Muslims had been made landless in their own land while the Plantation Tamils had been made landless on alien soil.

— Gogularaajan Rajendran on Co-directing Walay Balay, Filipino Cinema, and His Cannes Debut

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Untold toll of military bombardment in the Philippines An Altermidya special report (October 5, 2024)

"Throughout the country, the Philippine government has been conducting a devastating, all-out war against the armed insurgency. But civilian communities -- and the environment -- have been bearing the brunt of the attacks. Altermidya has documented and verified at least 173 cases of aerial bombardment, artillery fire, and strafing since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016 until today under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (This documentation did not include the sustained aerial bombardment of the city of Marawi against purported ISIS-inspired terrorists in May-October 2017.) The war has so far displaced over 17,000 families in provinces across the country. Disturbingly, our findings show that only 17.4 percent of these military strikes hit actual rebel positions. The vast majority, it turns out, devastated communities of farmers, fisherfolk, workers, and indigenous peoples."

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Here's my Cod Mw Oc Noemi Rayne "Soro" Trinidad 🦊💖 She is part of the Philippine Light Reaction Regiment and fought during the Siege of Marawi in 2017. She will be part of Task Force 141 under the proposal of her friend who worked in the CIA who knows Laswell

[captain-price-unofficially]

Philippine Army M113 on a rainy day during the Siege of Marawi with scavenged wooden doors strapped to the front as add-on armor. 2017

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.23 (after 1950)

1955 – Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam. 1955 – The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite with West Germany instead of France. 1956 – Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the Hungarian Revolution. 1958 – Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued. 1958 – Belgian artist Peyo's comic characters, the Smurfs, make their debut in Spirou magazine. 1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me. 1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas. 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months. 1982 – A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured. 1983 – Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French Army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops. 1989 – The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic. 1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine, the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then. 1989 – An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314. 1991 – Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. 1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. 1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena. 1998 – Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum. 2001 – Apple Computer releases the iPod. 2002 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage. 2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated. 2007 – A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform. 2007 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-120, with Pamela Melroy becoming the second female space shuttle commander. 2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands. 2011 – The Libyan National Transitional Council deems the Libyan Civil War over. 2015 – The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages. 2017 – War against the Islamic State: Philippine defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana declares the end of the Siege of Marawi. 2020 – Second Libyan Civil War: The Second Libyan Civil War comes to an end as all parties to the 5+5 Joint Libyan Military Commission agree to a ceasefire. 2022 – Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term of the paramount leader of China. 2022 – Myanmar Air Force airstrikes a concert in Hpakant Township, Kachin state killing at least 80 people, including senior Kachin Independence Organisation officials, in the Hpakant massacre.

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OPAPRU continues to implement social healing programs for rehabilitation of Marawi

MARAWI CITY – Five years after the siege, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) continues to carry out peacebuilding interventions to help rebuild and rehabilitate the Islamic City of Marawi. “Through our Social Healing and Peacebuilding Program or SHAPE, the OPAPRU aims to promote a culture of peace, reconciliation and understanding among the…

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We're Playing With The Big Boys Now

The Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Marawi Siege Compensation Act of 2022’s at the Senate of the Philippines…

I'm playing with the big boys now.

[brexiiton]

Four killed in bombing at Sunday church service in Philippines

By CNN, 7:40am Dec 4, 2023

At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded by an explosion at a Sunday mass service being held in a university gymnasium in the Philippines.

The blast took place in Marawi on the southern island of Mindanao on Sunday morning, according to CNN affiliate CNN Philippines.

Photos of the scene showed soldiers and emergency workers standing among debris in the gymnasium. A section of the seating area was blown up, chairs were strewn across the floor.

Law enforcement officers at the scene of the explosion at Mindanao State university in Marawi on December 3. (Lanao Del Sur Provincial Government/Reuters)

Governor of the Lanao del Sur province, Mamintal Adiong Jr., said there had been a "violent bombing" of a gymnasium at the Mindanao State University during the congregation.

Speaking to reporters at the Amai Pakpak Medical Centre, a government hospital in Marawi, Adiong Jr. said more than 40 people were being treated at the centre, while a number of others with minor injuries were treated at the university's infirmary.

In a tweet on Sunday, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. condemned the attack, describing it as "senseless and most heinous, perpetrated by foreign terrorists." He did not name any specific groups or elaborate further.

Additional security personnel have been deployed to assist in the response, the president said.

Mindanao, a province in the far south of the Philippines, sits at the borders of Malaysia and Indonesia and is home to several Islamist insurgent groups including Abu Sayyaf.

The island, the second largest in the Philippines, has long been a hotbed of insurgency against the Philippine government.

While the Philippines is mostly Catholic, Mindanao is home to a sizable Muslim population.

In 2017, ISIS-affiliated militants laid siege to Marawi for five months. The violence forced more than 350,000 residents to flee the city and the surrounding areas before the government liberated the city.

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Seeking Peace Amidst Conflict: Lessons from Marawi

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Resilence. Rebuilding. Reflecting

In the heart of Mindanao, Philippines, a city once known for its vibrant culture and history, was thrust into a nightmare that shattered lives and brought into question the very essence of humanity. The Marawi Siege, which began in May 2017 and lasted for five long months, serves as a poignant backdrop for contemplating the theme of "Ending Wars." As a Mindanaoan, I cannot help but reflect on the significance of this tragic event and its implications for the pursuit of peace and conflict resolution.

In the case of Marawi, it appeared that the siege was a grim reminder that wars can erupt even in the most unlikely places. Marawi was a picturesque city, cherished for its rich cultural heritage and warm hospitality. Yet, it became a battleground where extremist forces clashed with government troops, leaving a trail of devastation and despair in their wake. The question of war's inevitability lingers in the minds of those who witnessed the violence firsthand. While history is replete with examples of wars, we must never resign ourselves to the belief that they are inevitable.

Marawi's ordeal challenges the notion that wars are essential for human survival. While conflicts may arise due to varying interests, beliefs, or resource scarcity, there are more peaceful avenues for resolving disputes. The siege, which displaced thousands and claimed numerous lives, revealed the tragic consequences of warfare. It underscores the necessity of finding alternatives to war that prioritize human lives and well-being.

The lessons from Marawi suggest that prevention requires a multifaceted approach. Firstly, addressing the root causes of conflicts is crucial. In the context of Marawi, addressing grievances, poverty, and radicalization is vital in preventing such a tragic event from recurring. Promoting dialogue, understanding, and inclusivity among different communities can also contribute to preventing conflicts. Additionally, international cooperation and diplomacy are essential in preventing wars, as they can deter potential aggressors and mediate disputes.

The devastation witnessed during the Marawi Siege highlights the urgent need to limit the impact of war when it does occur. Humanitarian efforts must be prioritized to alleviate the suffering of those caught in the crossfire. This involves providing food, shelter, and medical aid to affected communities. Furthermore, protecting cultural heritage and preserving local history, as was done in Marawi's rehabilitation, is essential to healing the emotional scars left by war.

The story of Marawi is not one of despair but of resilience and hope. As Mindanaoans, we have seen our neighbors and fellow Filipinos unite in the face of adversity. The aftermath of the siege witnessed an outpouring of support from all corners of the country, demonstrating that peace and unity can overcome even the darkest of days.

In a nutshell, the Marawi Siege serves as a poignant lesson for us all. It reminds us that while wars may erupt unexpectedly, they are not inevitable. They are not essential to human survival, and we must work tirelessly to prevent them by addressing root causes and fostering peaceful dialogues. To limit the impact of war, we must prioritize humanitarian efforts and protect cultural heritage. The people of Marawi exemplify the indomitable spirit of humanity and our capacity for resilience and hope. Let us carry these lessons forward as we seek peace amidst conflict, both in our own lives and on a global scale. Wars may leave scars, but they can also be catalysts for change and the pursuit of a more peaceful world.

[ricisidro]

Prayers for the victims and families of an explosion during mass in a gym of Philippines’ Mindanao State University (MSU) 🙏

#PrayersForMindanao #Mindanao #Marawi

At least 4 people were killed while at least 42 others mostly students were hurt as an explosion ripped through Dimaporo Gym at the state-run MSU in Dimalna, Marawi City, during the 7 am Mass on December 3, the First Sunday of Advent, the start of the traditional 4-week preparation for Christmas.

Marawi City was besieged by Islamist militants ISIL (ISIS)-inspired 5-month siege that killed more than 1,000 people in 2017.

The Philippine military said on Saturday they had killed 11 militants, including members of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Philippines, a pro-Islamic State group, in a military operation the day before in Maguindanao del Sur province.

📸 Provincial Government of Lanao Del Sur/ Facebook

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Pangandaman Allocates P5 Billion for BARMM Rehabilitation Fund

  Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman has approved the Special Allotment Release Order (SARO) amounting to P5 billion for the Special Development Fund (SDF) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The release of the fund is in accordance with Section 2, Article XIV of Republic Act 11054, that the National Government shall provide the SDF with P5 billion annually, for a period of 10 years, to the BARMM Government “for the rebuilding, rehabilitation, and development of its conflict-affected communities.”  

Pangandaman making a statement. Photo by DBM.   "Tulad po ng ipinangako ko, at alinsunod po sa tagubilin ni Pangulong Bongbong Marcos, patuloy po ang DBM na aalalay sa BARMM sa abot ng aming makakaya. We will ensure that we will help in its smooth transition process and strengthening its communities." “Umaasa po kami na magagamit ng wasto ang pondong ito para matugunan ang pangangailangan ng mga komunidad sa BARMM. We hope that BARMM takes advantage of this funding by fully utilizing it to help those in need, and to improve areas that needs further development,” Pangandaman added.   The most recent conflict to have erupted in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao was the five-month siege, from 23 May to 23 October 2017, of Marawi City — capital of Lanao del Sur, one of six provinces in the region. The clash resulted in P17 billion in property damage and lost opportunities, according to Task Force Bangon Marawi, the government inter-agency body in charge of rehabilitation efforts in the conflict zone. In 2018, Task Force Bangon Marawi said in an initial estimate that at least P49.8 billion is needed to restore affected parts of Marawi. The allocations shall be directly released by the Bureau of Treasury to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Government through an authorized government servicing bank (AGSB), subject to cash programming by the National Government. The administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has allotted: - P64.76 billion for Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s Annual Block Grant; - P5.0 billion as Special Development Fund for the rebuilding, rehabilitation, and development of conflict-affected communities; - P4.59 billion for its share in taxes, fees, and charges collected in the region.   Sources: THX News & Department of Budget and Management. Read the full article