By Media Mindanao News Service News Digest Volume 1, August 1987-July 1988 Posted by Davao Today ILIGAN CITY (MMNS/September 30, 1987) – A Muslim alliance in Lanao campaigning for the restoration of capital punishment for “five serious offenses” has demanded the revocation of Marawi as Islamic...

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By GINGGING AVELLANOSA- VALLE Davao Today Relief assistance for people displaced by the fighting between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Maguindanao has come to a halt after the massacre that killed 58 people, 32 of them journalists, in the town of Ampatuan on November 23 last...

TWO MONTHS AFTER. Families of Ampatuan victims gather around the massacre site in sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman, Ampatuan town in Maguindanao. Lawyers, human rights advocates, representatives from Christian and Muslim faiths join the national Interfaith Mission for Peace and Justice to offer prayers,...

By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today MARIHATAG, SURIGAO DEL SUR – This coastal town in northeastern Mindanao would have been as humdrum and sleepy as any ordinary day but the red letters on the railing of a bridge along the national highway broke the monotony: “Mabuhay ang ika-41 nga anibersaryo sa...

By ALVIN LUQUE In the past three years, several speculations about my absence from the progressive movement in urban centers in Mindanao have come out.   The AFP, through its propaganda spin-doctors, has consistently vilified me through black propaganda, saying even, at one time, that I was already...

41 YEARS AND COUNTING. Members of the New People's Army in Caraga region celebrate the 41st year of the Communist Party of the Philippines. (davaotoday.com photo by Jose...

MANILA — While the cries for justice for the victims of the Ampatuan massacre have been amplified many times over — by the media, human-rights advocates, progressive groups, the general public and the international community -– there is one person whose voice should ring louder. Esmael “Toto”...

by Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews Sunday, 20 December 2009 DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 December) – Datu Unsay mayor Datu Andal Ampatuan, Jr., principal suspect in the November 23 Ampatuan Massacre that left at least 58 persons dead, 31 of them media workers, is the richest among the Ampatuans, posting a...

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DAVAO CITY—Almost 500 delegates of the summit coming from various provinces in Mindanao chanted “Never Again to Martial Law” today in opposition to the Arroyo government’s declaration of Martial Law last night. The calls resonated during the 2nd Mindanao Human Rights Summit held in the city which was...

Migrante International today called for the immediate lifting of martial law in Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, and Cotabato City, saying that the move betrays how President Arroyo is less concerned with the dispensation of justice for the Ampatuan massacre victims than with consolidating her power through...

The National Democratic Front-Mindanao considers the Arroyo regime’s declaration of martial rule in the province of Magindanao on Dec. 5 a brazen abuse of power that dangerously leads to the impingement of the rights of the people and is directed against the struggle of the Bangsamoro in particular and...

POOLED EDITORIAL At a time when even war itself strives to be humane, the carnage that killed 57 people in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, shocked people beyond words, not only because of the scale and brutality of the attacks but also because the targets had been unarmed: political supporters who were out to file a...

By Alex Tizon Knight International Journalism Fellow Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism Posted By Davao Today THE BODY count of the Maguindanao Massacre has gone up each of the past five days. The count is now at 57, with authorities continuing to sift through the blood-soaked dirt just outside...

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson International League of Peoples’ Struggle The International Coordinating Committee and all member-organizations of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) condemn with all their moral conviction and strength the monstrous massacre of at least 57 people,...

LUKSANG BAYAN. Militant groups in Davao City hold a 'luksang bayan' (community mourning), an indignation rally to condemn the massacre in Ampatuan town that killed 57 persons – at least 30 of them are journalists. Among those killed in the carnage were members and supporters of the Mangundadatu...

The brutal, indiscriminate mass murder on Monday in Ampatuan town, in Maguindanao province, raises the ultimate challenge of conscience. It carries the culture of impunity at work in this country to such levels of horror that, if it remains unpunished for long,  can send the nation into an inexorable...

(compiled by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines) Koronadal City 1.        Adolfo, Benjie, Gold Star Daily, Koronadal City 2.        Bataluna, Rubello, Gold Star Daily, Koronadal City 3.        Cachuela, Hannibal, Punto News, Koronadal City 4.        Legarte,...

By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today DAVAO CITY– After the mass murder that killed 57 people, 21 of them women, Moro residents in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao have remained largely silent, perhaps dumbfounded, at the extent of the atrocities. “But it does not mean that they wanted these things to...

SHARIFF AGUAK, the Philippines — A politician identified as the prime suspect in the massacre of more than 50 people this week who surrendered to the authorities on Thursday is expected to be charged Friday with multiple murders in the worst carnage in the country’s long history of election-related...

For its brazenness and sheer brutality, the United Nations led several other countries in condemning the mass slaughter of 46 people – including women and journalists – in a poll-related massacre in Maguindanao last Monday. In a statement issued through his spokesman, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...

We are no longer who we were before Monday. Even in the annals of political violence in the Philippines, there have been no parallels to the slaughter that occurred on the lonely road to Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao on November 23. 52 unarmed civilians all, the majority of whom were media professionals, the...

In a picture taken during the Martial Law anniversary in Davao City two years ago, Lawyer Concepcion “Connie” Brizuela carries a placard condemning the extrajudicial killings in the country.  Brizuela was one of the two lawyers killed in a massacre in Maguindanao. She and Cynthia Oquendo,...

By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today DAVAO CITY—Election violence erupted this early right at the heart of Maguindanao, a province long wrought by political killings. Forty persons including lawyers and journalists on their way to Maguindanao’s capital town of Shariff Aguak were reportedly taken by armed men...