Meranaws
finally get to see what’s left of their homes and their business
establishments when the military allowed them to visit Ground Zero on 8
May 2018, almost a year after the Maute rebels first attacked Marawi
City. MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO
Moro
Islamic Liberation Front supporters shout the Takbir during the
Bangsamoro Consultative Assembly inside Camp Darapanan in Simuay, Sultan
Kudarat, Maguindanao after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the
Bangsamoro Organic Law on 26 July2018. MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJ
Moro
Islamic Liberation Front chair Murad Ebrahim, using his real name Ahod
“Murad” Balawag Ebrahim, votes for the first time in his life on 21
January 2019 during the plebiscite for the ratification of the
Bangsamoro Organic Law at the Simuay Junction Central Elementary School
in Sultan Kudarat town, Maguindanao. MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO
A
Marine walks through the debris lying inside St. Carmel Cathedral in
Jolo on 27 January 2019 after a twin blast left 20 persons killed and
scores wounded. Photo courtesy of AFP Western Mindanao Command
Angelito
Rendon Lampon, OMI, former Bishop of the Vicariate of Jolo, enters the
Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Cotabato City with the Papal Nuncio,
Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, for his installation as the fourth
Archbishop of Cotabato, succeeding Cardinal Orlando B. Quevedo, on 30
January 2019. It was a heavily guarded ceremony held just three days
after two bombs exploded at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo.
MindaNews photo by GREGORIO C. BUENO
Bangsamoro
Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao Interim Chief Minister Al Haj
Murad Ebrahim is met by Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Regional
Governor Mujiv Hataman during the ceremonial turn-over of the ARMM to
the BARMM at the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex in Cotabato City on
26 February 2019. MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO
Journalist
Patricio P. Diaz, chronicler of Mindanao history for nearly seven
decades, passed away on 29 August 2019 at the age of 93. He is shown
here during the launch of his book “Troubled Odyssey” in Davao City in
2011. MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
The
façade of Eva’s Hotel along Quezon Blvd. in the heart of Kidapawan City
crumbles after the magnitude 6.5 quake that hit North Cotabato and
other parts of Mindanao in the morning of 31 October 2019. MindaNews
photo by JULES L. BENITEZ
Rescuers
retrieve two bodies from the collapsed three-story Southern Green
Marketing building in Padada, Davao del Sur on 16 December 2019, a day
after the magnitude 6.9 earthquake jolted parts of Mindanao. MindaNews
photo by MANMAN DEJETO
Children
of some of the victims of the Ampatuan Massacre give their reaction to
the 19 December 2019 court verdict that found the Ampatuan clan guilty
of the 2009 massacre. MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO