MARAWI CITY – More than a dozen civil society leaders, most of them displaced from their homes in 2017, remembered those who perished and went missing as a result of the five-month siege in this city four years ago.
The commemoration was held at the Maqbara, a public cemetery where the remains of more than 300 unidentified persons retrieved from the battle zones were laid to rest.
At the cemetery, one is led to the graves through bamboo markers that contain only codes that jibe with the documentation of authorities.
Today, the wooden markers are now replaced with concrete ones, painted white, and the thick bushes that covered the cemetery cleared.
Around 20 fami…
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