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Assalamualaikum Bangsamoro!

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim (In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful) Filipinos, whether Muslims or non-Muslims, were not unaware of the known situation of unrest in Mindanao for decades. As one of those who have experienced seeing fireballs from canyons, attending to evacuees who have lived with their endless hopelessness, and shaking grounds during the Pikit war in Cotabato and Sulu, memories can never fade and sometimes even haunt the already peaceful situation you live in at present. But this experience would just be a drop of sweat to those who have fought in War with bullets on their faces and bleeding wounds ignored with the task to defend their rights, families, and God. Tears, words, prayers may never be enough to forget the pangs of painful torment, distrust, discrimination, belittling,  misjudgements resulting from plain misunderstandings- religious or personal issues. Photos of pregnant women and children dying, husbands unarmed and innocent. But A...