ZAMBOANGA CITY: Mayor Maria Isabelle Salazar on Tuesday led the inauguration of government housing units for the victims of last year’s rebel attack that killed and wounded over 400 people.

The commemoration of the siege by members of the Moro National Liberation Front has reopened the bitter memories of the war that raged for three weeks and affected more than 120,000 people in Zamboanga, and hundreds of thousands more in nearby Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.

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