COTABATO CITY --- Thousands attended the launching this week of the enchanted Yuletide Season amusement park in the surroundings of the local government center in the now peaceful Lamitan City.
Lamitan City, covering more than 40 barangays, is capital of the now markedly peaceful Basilan province, now touted as the new investment frontier of the Bangsamoro region.
Several barangays in Lamitan City were former hotbeds of terror activities of the Abu Sayyaf are now quiet “peace zones,” free from violent Islamic extremists.