Philippines: Safety first as Mindanao IDPs consider going home

Published on 29 October 2009

Security is the principal concern for thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Mindanao when considering whether to return home. "I can't return now," Ampino Lapinig said outside her one-room hut at the Notre Dame Dulawan evacuation centre in Datu Piang, where some 300 families or 1,500 people are sheltering. "It's just not safe."

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