Zamboanga City was a familiar fixture in my previous life. Aside from being the first ones from Manila to arrive and cover the unforgettable Zamboanga siege in 2013, the city has been my team’s unofficial “forward operating base” whenever I was deployed to cover conflicts and other worthy coverages in Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and the nearby island of Basilan. Aside from Maguindanao, it was in Zamboanga, where I spent the...
