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No matter how long it takes,
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the fight against illegal drugs
will continue.
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Because that is the root cause
of so much evil
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and so much suffering.
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This fight will be unremitting,
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as it will be unrelenting.
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Despite international
and local pressures,
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this fight will not stop.
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The war on drugs, launched
in 2016 by President Duterte,
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left over 7,000 dead
in just over a year,
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most of whom
were killed by vigilantes.
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Almost all the murders
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took place
in the poorest neighbourhoods.
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The victims were minor pushers
and drug addicts.
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A brutal way
to eliminate the drugs scourge
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leaving in its wake
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a long trail
of blood and suffering.
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There's no justice,
there's no justice
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in the campaign
to eradicate drugs.
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There's just killings
and the victims are the poor.
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To the critics
against the fight,
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your efforts
will be better spent
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if you use the influence,
moral authority
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to educate the people
on the evil of illegal drugs,
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instead of condemning
the authorities unjustly,
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blaming them for every killing
that bloodies this country.
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The killings
are spread all over the country
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and this must be stopped.
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People are suffering
for everyday killing like this.
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They have to stop
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because the alternatives
are either jail or hell.
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Every night deaths,
screams of pain,
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relatives and friends looking
for loved ones in mortuaries.
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There are no prisoners taken
in this war.
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The President,
the commander-in-chief
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and the chief executive,
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when he came in
for the first conference,
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there were only three things
he told us to follow.
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Ensure the rights of everyone,
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accord them due process
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and ensure
that the rule of law is followed.
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Basically,
we followed everything.
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When we conduct
police operations,
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and the drugs offenders
put the lives of the officers
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and you, anybody in
the community's place in danger,
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by these drugs suspects,
we will defend them.
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In past administrations,
we had cases
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of extrajudicial killing,
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but it is only
in this administration
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that we have
a high number of killings,
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and these are being waged
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in relation
to the campaign on drugs.
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And so we see
a particular sector of society,
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mostly drug pushers
and drug suspects,
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who are victims
of alleged extrajudicial cases.
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We see that some are the result
of police operations.
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Here's the figures.
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There are
12,677 homicide incidents
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in the Philippines,
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period of one year.
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And what was the result?
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Number of incidents with motive
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or instances
not to be drug-related,
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because what they do
is they make appear
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is that all of these
are drug-related.
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Is it large?
You review the previous years.
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The previous years
were 14,000, 16,000.
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These are regular crimes
in the Philippines.
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We now have...
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..only 2,140.
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For us, one is too many!
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If the person is killed
in the name of the war on drugs,
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and whether the person
has been deprived of his rights
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to go to the court.
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If you are not given
the opportunity
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to raise your voice
in the court,
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using the legal parameters,
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what else can you access for,
what else can you do?
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And we know for a fact
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that the poor ones
would not always prioritise.
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Norma Dollaga,
a Methodist deaconess,
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is a member of Rise Up,
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a group that defends life
and human rights
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against extrajudicial killings
and violations.
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The Catholic Church too
is a member of this group.
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The first case of killing
was here, near, in this parish.
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Actually, the hitman
and the getaway car
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just parked downstairs
in my room,
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near in the church.
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Last August, the 25th.
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She was present when...?
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Yes...during the time...
she's there.
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Yes, they killed them in
front of her. He was my brother.
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Why didn't you give my son
a second chance?
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He was shot back there,
at that corner, like a dog.
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Duterte is responsible,
he ordered it, he killed my son.
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You could have sent him
to jail or rehab.
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Why could you not have given him
an alternative to dying?
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The war on drugs
here in our area,
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a drug-trading area,
is really rampant, actually.
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Because the area
is very vulnerable.
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One form of concrete help
is offered by rehab centres,
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a necessary step in introducing
drug addicts back into society.
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An alternative that's preferable
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to the executions without appeal
taking place in the Philippines.
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We have 842,
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right now we have 842.
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But we usually average
around a thousand patients.
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90% of our cases here
in the centre
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is
methamphetamine hydrochloride,
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or what the locals call shabu.
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So that's the number one.
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We also have cases
taking in marijuana,
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and from time to time cases
taking in, abusing...
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ecstasy and even cocaine.
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What age were you
when you started taking drugs?
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12 years old.
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He's already 15 years old.
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And he's been abusing glue
and also methamphetamines.
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One thing you would notice
is his height,
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stunted growth, this is one of
the effects of methamphetamines,
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and abuse of any drugs
for that matter.
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I started taking drugs
because of personal problems.
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I had just separated and my wife
had taken the children.
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But then I couldn't stop,
I was hooked.
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Now I've been here for a year,
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and when I get out
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I hope to be able to make up
for all the lost time,
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and sort everything out
with my family.
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We detain persons
who are charged before the court
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or who are also on trial.
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We have around 2,922 inmates.
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So the ideal capacity of our jail
is around 261,
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based on the United Nations
minimum standards.
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For these men, the future
holds time in jail or rehab.
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For many others, the future
stopped on a marble morgue table.
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But we believe killings
would not be the solution,
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so as church people
we value life.
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We value redemption,
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we value restoration,
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and we feel that people
would always have a chance
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to lead a life anew.
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There's another war being fought
in the south of the country.
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On the island of Mindanao,
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the Moros are the largest
non-Christian ethnic group
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in the Philippines,
almost 5% of the population.
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Cotabato is home to the HQ
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of the
Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim,
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formerly one of the most feared
and respected guerrilla leaders,
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is continuing negotiations
on the peace agreement
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signed with former
President Benigno Aquino in 2015.
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We are a separate people.
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We have our own identity.
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We have our own homeland.
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And we have a different culture
and religious belief,
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and so we need
to govern ourselves
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according to our culture
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and according
to our religious beliefs.
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But today
the call of extremist ideologies
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also risks infecting
a part of the local culture,
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as can be seen
in this Muslim rap video
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that draws on the Islamic State
for its inspiration.
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I consider myself
as a mujahideen.
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Because the mujahideen
said a while ago
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that there are
only three goals...
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protect...provide peace,
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suspend the peace
and protect the peace.
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We do not believe in how
they conduct their own struggle.
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Because basically we see
that this is purely destruction.
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Nothing can be gained
out of it.
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Over the years,
some groups have broken away,
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some opposed
to the peace process
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or mistrustful of the promises
made by central Government.
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The Abu Sayyaf group emerged
in 1990
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when negotiations
with the Government collapsed.
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The same thing happened
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with the Bangsamoro
Islamic Freedom Fighters.
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One of these armed groups,
the Maute,
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swore loyalty
to the Islamic State in 2015.
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On 23 May,
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about 800 terrorists
attacked the city of Marawi,
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forcing the Muslim majority
population to flee.
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The conflict has seen over 800
killed and 360,000 refugees.
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It ended on 23 October
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with the deaths of the leaders of
the Maute and Abu Sayyag groups.
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The armed forces
of the Philippines
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are trained to conduct warfare
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in jungle, in mountains,
in swamps.
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They are capable
to undertake any mission,
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even urban.
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However, this kind of warfare
is quite different.
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Here is the other side
where the Government forces...
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The other side...
the enemy forces.
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The devastation is extensive.
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Whole buildings gutted
by air raids,
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walls breached
and houses shattered
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by RPGs and heavy machine guns.
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Marawi today is a ghost town.
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Other side of the building
is the enemy.
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We believe that these foreigners
are veterans,
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they are trained
in this fighting.
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Probably they have also trained
the locals, you know,
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that kind of partnership
and training.
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And with the presence
of antitank weapons,
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the presence of sniper rifles,
IEDs.
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The terrorists of the Maute group
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also burned the cathedral
and a Protestant cultural centre,
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and kidnapped a Catholic priest
and a number of faithful.
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The movement of the Maute
is one such very clear sign
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of the radicalisation of Islam
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in this part of Mindanao.
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Their situation
is even more difficult
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than ours here in Marawi.
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There are about 550 families.
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Our goals are basic needs,
like food.
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What else?
Of course we need money
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to buy other things
that are important too.
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basically most of them
are scared
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because of the air strikes
and the firefights between the...
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The day it all began
we heard machine-gun fire,
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We tried to understand
what was happening.
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When we got close, there was
chaos and people shouting,
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they told us to flee
because ISIS were there.
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There were bodies on the ground,
two Christians and a policeman.
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This man has just been
brought here by the army.
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He spent two days
in a state of confusion
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in the area called Ground Zero.
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That's the site
of the fiercest fighting.
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Powerless, like refugees
all over the world,
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they hope to return home.
They look at Marawi and wait.
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Unlike in Sulu and Basilan,
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with the Abu Sayyaf, with
the operation of the Abu Sayyaf,
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Sulu and Basilan had been...
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very dangerous place
as far as we are concerned.
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In August 2013,
the city of Zamboanga
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experienced
the devastation of war
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when it was attacked
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by a faction of the
Moro National Liberation Front.
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Zamboanga,
the capital of Latin Asia,
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the most Hispanic city
in the Philippines,
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is a city
with a Christian majority.
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From here our journey
continues on a navy ship.
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Our destination
is the island of Sulu,
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stronghold
of the Abu Sayyaf group,
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responsible for kidnaps
and massacres,
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a close ally of the Islamic State
in
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This is a big mission so there's
going to be a lot of surgery.
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So we were invited
to do eye surgery,
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specifically for cataract cases
in the region.
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So that's why we're here.
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The Cataract Foundation provides
the consumables needed,
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as well as the equipment
that's needed for the surgery.
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And one of those who invite us
also is our partner ophthalmologist.
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This big group of people
who represent Islam
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but doing the action
totally opposite to Islam
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doesn't represent Islam,
by the way.
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So I hope all the people
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do not put themselves
in the group of ignorant people
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who just...who just learn
by reading one page,
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then will spread the news
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without even checking
what's the real news.
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This is the challenge here.
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Not only to repress,
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but to include those who live
on the margins of society.
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A hand offered to the weakest
to defeat violence,
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criminality and extremism.