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Marawi
Rebuilding from Ashes to a City of Faith, Hope and Peace
- Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 66
- Availability
- Free to read
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About the book
What the survivors of the 2017 siege of Marawi told listeners about their losses, life in the evacuation centres and the city they want rebuilt.
This report records what survivors of the 2017 siege of Marawi said in conversations with trained local "listeners" from January to March 2018. The listeners spoke with 1,133 people, most of them displaced, in evacuation centres and host homes. The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies ran the project with Dansalan College, Mindanao State University and the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies.
Chapter 1 gives the setting and a summary of findings and recommendations. Chapter 2 sets out the community accounts: the siege itself, life as displaced people, and views on the government, the military and the ISIS-Maute group. Chapter 3 explains the listening method.
Survivors spoke of poor relief food, favouritism in aid, crowded evacuation centres, children out of school and weak health care. Many wanted work, money to restart their businesses and a safe return home. Some feared losing their land because deeds were lost or because Marawi was declared a military reservation in 1953.
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