VERA FILES FACT CHECK: BARMM official DID NOT say ‘Christians are unwelcome in Marawi’
BARMM Interior Minister Naguib Sinarimbo did not say Christians have no place in Marawi.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Habang nakabitin ang pagpapatibay ng anti-terror bill, Locsin inulit ang maling pahayag na drug ops laban sa lider ng terorista ang sanhi ng pagkubkob sa Marawi
Sa hindi bababa sa pangatlong pagkakataon, muling sinabi ni Foreign Affairs Teodoro "Teddy Boy" Locsin, Jr. ang maling impormasyon na ang paghahatid ng warrant of arrest dahil sa iligal na droga ang ugat ng Marawi siege.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pending enactment of anti-terror bill, Locsin repeats false claim that drug ops vs. terrorist leader caused Marawi siege
For at least the third time, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro “Teddy Boy” Locsin Jr. falsely claimed that the serving of a warrant of arrest for illegal drugs triggered the Marawi siege.
Factors and forces that led to the Marawi debacle
The battle of Marawi in 2017, in the heart of the Islamic city in Lanao del Sur province, deviated into violent extremism that opened more fears for the future in what was an undertaking by mostly a generation of millennial fighters. The siege that lasted five months, from May to October, was unprecedented in magnitude, challenging the military in doctrine and tactics, and prompting daily sorties of air strikes that reduced Marawi to a state of destruction. It was unbelievable that two principal brothers of a family attached to the political and business elite of the Maranaos – the Muslim ethnic tribe of Lanao del Sur – had raised the stakes of Islamism beyond the call for autonomy in a fractured land.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte, Locsin inulit ang pahayag na ang pagkubkob sa Marawi ay dahil sa operasyon laban sa droga
Hindi mga iligal na droga ang opisyal na dahilan ng giyera na nagwasak sa Marawi City noong 2017, ngunit ito ang sinabi nina Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte at Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro "Teddyboy" Locsin, Jr. sa labas ng bansa sa magkahiwalay na pahayag, ilang araw lamang ang pagitan.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte, Locsin repeat claim Marawi siege caused by anti-drug ops
Illegal drugs was not the official cause of the war that devastated Marawi City in 2017, but President Rodrigo Duterte and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro “Teddyboy” Locsin, Jr. claimed this on the international stage, within days of each other.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte binago ang istorya ng Marawi, sinasalungat ang pagbibigay-katarungan sa martial law
Sinabi ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa unang bahagi ng buwan na ito na ang krisis sa Marawi ay "hindi isang hayag na paghihimagsik," na kabaligtaran ng kanyang opisyal na pagbibigay-katwiran sa pagdeklara ng martial law sa Mindanao noong nakaraang taon.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte revises Marawi story, contradicts martial law justification
He recently said the Marawi crisis was 'not an overt act of rebellion.'
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Dating puno ng CFO NAKALILIGAW ang gamit ng maling datos sa Marawi rehab aid
Nag post kamakailan lamang si dating Commission on Filipino Overseas chairperson Imelda Nicolas ng isang nakaliligaw na infographic tungkol sa halaga ng foreign aid na natanggap ng Pilipinas para sa rehabilitasyon ng Marawi City na winasak ng giyera.
Marawi one year later: Media could have saved lives
The people’s voices in the story of the Marawi siege were hardly heard, drowned out by the sounds of war.
