The cost of armed groups’ attacks in Mindanao

Through the years, Mindanao has been battered repeatedly by fighting between government forces and armed groups in conflict with the law.

The  attacks have been costly, not just in monetary terms, but in the hundreds of lives lost and the millions of people affected and displaced by the violence.

GMA News Research listed below several major armed conflicts in Mindanao in the past decades during the terms of five Presidents.