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The website is intended to highlight the stories of victims in the Philippines. The focal point of which is to address the issue of terrorism from a civilian perspective thus creating an unfriendly environment for the perpetrators of violence.

 

The Philippine Experience

 

The Human Rights Watch 2007 reported that violent Islamist groups in the Philippines have killed or injured more than 1,700 people in bombings and other attacks since 2000. The attacks, mostly in Mindanao particularly in Basilan and Sulu, have also included kidnappings, executions, and bombings.

 

Clarita Gragasin, 61, traveled to the Koronadal market on 10 May 2003, to shop for some food. She was sitting in a rickshaw tricylce, preparing to return home, when a bomb detonated about five meters from her. Shrapnel from the bomb hit her face, abdomen, arms and legs, killing her instantly. Clarita left behind three daughters: Zenida, Maribeth and Narissa.

 

Atrocities to Humanity

Bombs have been set off in urban centres, markets and stores, airports, on ferry boats and wharfs, and on rural roads and highways. Terrorists have killed Philippine civilians indiscriminately - Christians and Muslims, men and women, parents and children - and left behind orphans, widows and widowers. Hundreds of other vcitims have suffered severe wounds, burns, and lost limbs.