By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
While the plight of Filipino workers continues, the Aquino government worsens it with this year’s implementation of the two-tiered wage system through the Department of Labor and Employment.
Monthly Archives: November 2012
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“NPA man kaha ilang kalaban, nganong kung tudluan namo asa padulong ang mga NPA, dili man lagi nila gukdon. Kami man noon pasanginlang NPA (The NPAs are their supposed enemies. Yet how come that even when we tell them where the NPAs are, it is us that they chase after? Instead, they accuse the civilians as NPAs,” Stella Imbud, a Manobo lumad said.
The community’s fear of the military is not without history. In 2002, a paramilitary group called Alamara, which the community alleged as military-backed and whose members wear camouflage uniforms like ordinary soldiers, have threatened to kill and rape women including Bigkay.
