More than Lives, Marawi Tragedy Claims a Way of Life

Destruction of the Philippines' Muslim cultural center

Rasmiah and her mother and three of her siblings had one hour to get some of the things they had left in their house when they fled Marawi, the Mindanao Islamic city devastated by war. One hour. That’s all they had. They had to consider themselves lucky being able to get permission from the military, which had locked down the city. Every day dozens of f…