Scars of Marawi siege linger as Philippines poll nears

MARAWI, Philippines: Near a resettlement site for survivors of the bloody 2017 siege of Marawi, a woman wearing a black face veil walks across a hilltop dotted by tombstones without names. Sophia Aminolla, a nurse and mother of two, does not know if her missing younger brother Amerel is among those lying beneath the numbered graves. She is not alone. As the now semi-autonomous Muslim region in the southern Philippines aims to turn a new page with its first elections on Monday, the gravesite i

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