Criselda Yabes is a journalist based in the Philippines. She is author of "The Battle of Marawi," her 10th book, which was published last year.
Yellow was the color of the 1986 People Power Revolution that brought the Philippines to the world democracy stage. The same color, sullied and denigrated by President Rodrigo Duterte as part of his attempts to usher in his own brand of authoritarianism, is now almost a badge of dishonor.
