By GRACE S. UDDIN Davao Today DAVAO CITY� Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo warned the government against taking advantage of the bombing incidents in Mindanao to declare a state of emergency in the country. Ocampo�s reaction was made after Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said the government will use an �iron...

By Media Mindanao News Service (August 15, 1987 News Digest Volume 1, August 1987-July 1988 Posted by Davao Today) DAVAO CITY (MMNS) — At least 42 vigilante groups now exist in Mindanao, the Mindanao Human Rights Monitor (MHRM) reported in its latest issue. These organizations, denominated by a strong...

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9 hurt in Tacurong bus terminal explosion by Malu Cadeli�a Manar / MindaNews KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 June) � An improvised explosive device (IED) blew off at the bus terminal in Tacurong City at 10:30 this morning, wounding nine persons, two of whom are now in critical condition. Tacurong police...

By CHERYLL D. FIEL Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Three lawyers whose names were in the military Order of Battle list filed a petition for a writ of amparo at the Regional Trial Court to preempt impending threats to their lives. Davao lawyers Carlos Isagani Zarate, Lilibeth Ladaga and Angela...

Order of Battle – Malicious Forgery or Conspiracy to Murder? By Alan Davis Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project MANILA — Just as there is a law against sedition, so equally there must surely be some law against inciting or conspiring to murder. Read...

By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA) Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) May 29, 2009 The presence of heavily armed U.S. soldiers even in the remote areas of the Philippine countryside is now becoming a normal part of the local scenery. As we mark the ten years (1999-2009)...

Soldiers suspected by Parago restricted inside army camp Panacan, Davao City — Two of the four soldiers suspected by Leoncio Pitao to be behind her daughters’ abduction and killing last March 4, 2009 were restricted inside camp by the commander of the 10th Infantry Division, Major General...

Billianes death part of struggle vs. imperialist mining — NDF The NDF-FarSouth Mindanao region expresses its deepest grief at the untimely death of the anti-mining activist Eliezer ‘Boy’ Billianes. He was shot to death by the notorious death squad of the US-Arroyo regime on the afternoon...

NPA-Southern Mindanao sets its sights on Palparan The Ka Paking Guimbaolibot Red Partisan Brigade of the Merardo Arce Command-New People’s Army is anticipating its latest legitimate target in the person of Ret. Gen. Jovito Palparan who is now resurrected by way of the much-vaunted narco-terrorism...

Out Now! demands that Malaca�ang scrap VFA Joining calls from legislators and from the Filipino people, Out Now! Mindanao Coalition calls on Malaca�ang to abrogate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) to stop further violations to sovereignty and human rights committed by US troops in the country. President...

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered an all out offensive against the kidnappers of ABS-CBN senior reporter Ces Drilon, even as she vowed to crush the Abu Sayyaf Group and the Communist New People’s Army (NPA) during her term. “We...

Anakpawis is calling for justice for the victims of the Philbest bombing in General Santos City that killed an 11-year old child and injured 29 others, mostly workers of the factory. In a statement released to the media, the workers’ party-list group criticized the Philippine National Police (PNP) for...

Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) take to the streets of Davao the morning after the blast in Congress, urging vigilance among the people. They call on people to act and demand an investigation into the incident that killed three, wounded several others, including lawmakers. InPeace, the peace...

DAVAO CITY — Representative Luzviminda Ilagan survived the blast that rocked the House of Representatives shortly after the session adjourned Tuesday night. Ilagan was reportedly bleeding due to shrapnel injuries when brought to Malvar hospital. She was declared in stable condition a few hours later....

By Collette Kuizon Davao Today DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Child-rights groups in Mindanao are worried that the Human Security Act (HSA), the Philippines’s anti-terrorism law that is the subject of intense criticism, will make children more vulnerable to harassment and violence. Both the Kabiba...

The Balikatan exercise in Basilan in 2002 has always been sold to the public as a success story — indeed, as a model for how the U.S. military should engage other nations in the fight against terrorism. Five years later, it is clear that the Abu Sayyaf remains a threat on the island, and its continued...

Human Rights Watch: Since January 2000, radical armed Islamist groups in the Philippines have carried out over 40 major bombings against civilians and civilian property, mostly in the south of the country. Attacks on Mindanao, Basilan, Jolo, and other southern islands have killed nearly 400 civilians and...

Below are Davao Today’s pictures taken during the protest rally against the State of the Nation Address by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on July 23. Arroyo’s promises mean nothing to the activists as they protest the rampant human rights violations and the implementation of the Human Security...

Activists led by Bayan and its allied groups have been mounting protest actions against the Human Security Act, the Philippines’s anti-terrorism law that is set to take effect tomorrow, July 15. Critics said the law is the most repressive piece of legislation ever crafted by the Philippine congress....

We have two more days before the full implementation of the contested anti-terror law. That is two more days before legitimizing the outright attacks on civil rights and liberties perpetrated by no less than the US-Arroyo regime. ...

Students staged a rally in front of the University of Mindanao campus on Bolton Street to protest the implementation of the Human Security Act, which, they said, would impinge on democratic rights. The law, which will take effect on July 15, allows the formation of an “inter-school coordinating...

MANILA — Anti-Terrorism Task Force (ATTF) spokesman Ricardo Blancaflor on Sunday allayed fears over the implementation of the Human Security Act (HSA) or the Anti-Terrorism Law, which he said, is for the protection of human rights. ...

DAVAO CITY — Bayan Muna today urged Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, the presidential security adviser for regions 11 and 12, to lobby for a thorough review of the anti-terror Law or the Human Security Act, saying �the mayor�s objectives in keeping peace and order” should be consistent with the protection...

DAVAO CITY��Junk the Human Security Act,� this was the cry of the students and youth organizations in the National Day of Youth and Students Protest held today in front of the University of Mindanao Bolton Campus. ...