Marawi in ruins a month after Maute attack
city of Aleppo.
Its residents are left in torment friends’ homes, waiting for the
to ashes. We heard our village was France Press with watering eyes in a crowded gym close to Marawi.
Now we really have nothing.”
The war has also ended all city renowned for its traders – and locals fear looting has stripped well-off homes that were known to keep vaults of cash, jewelry and heirlooms.
But the impact is hardest on and leaving her wares to rot.
“If I could only save the machine I used to make rice cakes, I would do that to make a living. It pains me that the city I grew up in, all I worked for was gone and I don’t know how
Massive rehabilitation
President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law across Mindanao immediately after the in Marawi, which he said was local IS province.
Duterte has deployed the full force of his military to end the upris -
However the militants still hold three of the city’s nine districts, according to the government, using hostages as human shields while -
military, which estimates nearly
no signs of a quick resolution, the government and aid workers are starting to plan for the reha massive as for the most powerful typhoons that regularly smash the Philippines.
Duterte has promised to set process the provincial government
Locals authorities are planning
In the schools and gymnasiums residents’ trauma is compounded - pened to their homes.
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lives and yet people still took the little we had,” Esmayatin said in a displacement camp where he and
“I can’t sleep at night thinking
“I am steeling myself for the imagine myself crying,” she said.