COTABATO CITY: Chants of “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is Great) can be heard through sobs as the Darul Iftah (House of Opinion) led prayers on Wednesday morning’s flag-raising ceremony in front of the Marawi City Hall--the first since the siege of the city began five months ago.

Nowaim Ampuan, president of the Lanao Youth Congress, as he looked back at history, said it is the first time that Marawi experienced a conflict of such heavy magnitude for “our [Maranao] forefathers never allowed colonizers to occupy this land.”

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