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Terrorist leaders in the Philippines are dead – will democracy be restored?

  • Written by Jessica Trisko Darden, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, American University School of International Service
imageExplosions continue in Marawi, a day after President Duterte declared the city liberated.AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

For almost five months, 21 million people in the southern Philippines have been living under martial law.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in the province of Mindanao in May in response to increasing Islamist...

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