SAME SIGHT. Lacking in beds, a Maguindanao girl puts her sibling to sleep on the concrete floor at the Pendililang evacuation site in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town in Maguindanao on August 9.

2012. Town officials said more than 3,000 families have fled the fighting between soldiers and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters who are trying to control a vital highway linking Cotabato and Isulan cities.

MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo