Zamboanga’s Forgotten Survivors
A year after a violent siege terrified the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga, tens of thousands of displaced survivors feel they have been forgotten. The attack by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), a secessionist group, on the port city on 9 September 2013 initially displaced 120,000 people.
Today, around 40,000 remain homeless, according to…
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