{"id":2184,"date":"2017-06-05T18:13:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T18:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2017-06-05T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T18:13:27","slug":"seizing-of-philippines-city-by-islamist-militants-a-wake-up-call-for-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/05\/seizing-of-philippines-city-by-islamist-militants-a-wake-up-call-for-southeast-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"SEIZING OF PHILIPPINES CITY BY ISLAMIST MILITANTS A WAKE-UP CALL FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/PHILIPPINES-MILITANTS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2185\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/PHILIPPINES-MILITANTS-1024x617.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/PHILIPPINES-MILITANTS-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/PHILIPPINES-MILITANTS-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/PHILIPPINES-MILITANTS-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/PHILIPPINES-MILITANTS-560x338.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/PHILIPPINES-MILITANTS-260x157.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/PHILIPPINES-MILITANTS-160x96.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/PHILIPPINES-MILITANTS.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Reuters<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"article-text\"><span class=\"author\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/journalists\/tom-allard\">Tom Allard<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the battle that has raged for the past 12 days in Marawi City at the southern end of the Philippines, dozens of Islamist militants stormed its prison, overwhelming the guards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said \u2018surrender the Christians\u2019,\u201d said Faridah P. Ali, an assistant director of the regional prison authority. \u201cWe only had one Christian staff member so we put him with the inmates so he wouldn\u2019t be noticed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters from the Maute group, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), menaced the guards and shouted at prisoners: but no one gave up the Christian man. &#8220;When they freed the inmates, he got free,\u201d said Ali.<\/p>\n<p>It was a brief moment of cheer, but over the next few hours the militants took control of most of the city, attacked the police station and stole weapons and ammunition, and set up roadblocks and positioned snipers on buildings at key approaches. The assault has already led to the death of almost 180 people and the vast majority of Marawi\u2019s population of about 200,000 has fled.<\/p>\n<p>Image sourced : Today On Line<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-philippines-militants-battle-insight-idUSKBN18U0D0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Reuters By Tom Allard At the beginning of the battle that has raged for the past 12 days in Marawi City at the southern end of the Philippines, dozens of Islamist militants stormed its prison, overwhelming the guards. \u201cThey said \u2018surrender the Christians\u2019,\u201d said Faridah P. Ali, an assistant director of the regional&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/05\/seizing-of-philippines-city-by-islamist-militants-a-wake-up-call-for-southeast-asia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEIZING OF PHILIPPINES CITY BY ISLAMIST MILITANTS A WAKE-UP CALL FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[606,1540,1541,1542],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-islamic-state","tag-marawi-city","tag-maute-group","tag-philippines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}