For me, a drastic action is a must! or else this will happen again and again because this will still exist.
A lot of people knows already what is happening there even if it reach in newspaper, magazines, tabloids, radio and television which is influenced by tri-media.
The Philippines urged its citizens on September 21,2013 that is Saturday to send more aid for 100,000 people who had fled heavy fighting between troops and Muslim rebels in the country's South, calling their plight a "humanitarian crisis".
The conflict has claimed more than 100 lives since hundreds of rebels from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)who entered the key trading centre of Zamboanga in a bid to derail peace talks with a rival group.
Zamboanga is under Western Mindanao Region that is known as the Sardines Capital of the Philippines when it is also the country's 6th most populous city with nearly a million residents and this is also the 3rd largest land area which is a Center of commerce and industry. This is a place to be called home not a battlefield. And once if a heavy rain can be categorized as a state of emergency, why not heavy rain of bullets, hostage- taking?
While many of the insurgents have surrendered and most of the dozens of hostages they took have been freed, attention has turned to conditions faced by 118,000 refugees displaced by the fighting.
"This has become a humanitarian crisis," that is the word of Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman told Agence France Presse.
She said those displaced were staying in 57 evacuation centres, including the city's main sports complex where over 70,000 people jostled for space and erected tents and shelters fashioned from scavenged materials.
"We are trying to organize them by providing them better materials," she said, but appealed to the public to send in more aid in the form of clothes, food, education materials and toys for the many children among the displaced.
This is a national crisis that the government should take care seriously. Many lives has been sacrificed from police and military man who defend this city, to evacuees who are forced to live their home for safety, and the people who are continuously helping in relief operation, health, and etc.. There are many people who are hostages right now and are clinging to their life. Economy is affected not only in Zamboanga City although the whole nation since most sardines are supplied from here and the image of the Philippines is unable to control the situation holds other countries to contribute in our economy. It may not affect other Filipinos directly now but sooner or later this will mark a scar on our country in order to heal the wounds. This is a true to life situation.
For me, this is an important content of this article to me because the people who are at stake here are my people, my relatives on my mother side from Mindanaoans and Filipinos alike even if I am residing here in Dumaguete City as a Chinese blood.
A lot of people knows already what is happening there even if it reach in newspaper, magazines, tabloids, radio and television which is influenced by tri-media.
The Philippines urged its citizens on September 21,2013 that is Saturday to send more aid for 100,000 people who had fled heavy fighting between troops and Muslim rebels in the country's South, calling their plight a "humanitarian crisis".
The conflict has claimed more than 100 lives since hundreds of rebels from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)who entered the key trading centre of Zamboanga in a bid to derail peace talks with a rival group.
Zamboanga is under Western Mindanao Region that is known as the Sardines Capital of the Philippines when it is also the country's 6th most populous city with nearly a million residents and this is also the 3rd largest land area which is a Center of commerce and industry. This is a place to be called home not a battlefield. And once if a heavy rain can be categorized as a state of emergency, why not heavy rain of bullets, hostage- taking?
While many of the insurgents have surrendered and most of the dozens of hostages they took have been freed, attention has turned to conditions faced by 118,000 refugees displaced by the fighting.
"This has become a humanitarian crisis," that is the word of Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman told Agence France Presse.
She said those displaced were staying in 57 evacuation centres, including the city's main sports complex where over 70,000 people jostled for space and erected tents and shelters fashioned from scavenged materials.
"We are trying to organize them by providing them better materials," she said, but appealed to the public to send in more aid in the form of clothes, food, education materials and toys for the many children among the displaced.
This is a national crisis that the government should take care seriously. Many lives has been sacrificed from police and military man who defend this city, to evacuees who are forced to live their home for safety, and the people who are continuously helping in relief operation, health, and etc.. There are many people who are hostages right now and are clinging to their life. Economy is affected not only in Zamboanga City although the whole nation since most sardines are supplied from here and the image of the Philippines is unable to control the situation holds other countries to contribute in our economy. It may not affect other Filipinos directly now but sooner or later this will mark a scar on our country in order to heal the wounds. This is a true to life situation.
For me, this is an important content of this article to me because the people who are at stake here are my people, my relatives on my mother side from Mindanaoans and Filipinos alike even if I am residing here in Dumaguete City as a Chinese blood.
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