By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
A copy of the proposed resolution obtained by davaotoday.com shows that the call for the pull-out of troops “will place the right of civilians to peace and security over and above any military operations.”
By JOHN RIZLE SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Dialang said her sister-in-law, Melanie Capion, came to the place of incident first and took Vicky who was wounded in the ear, and Risa. “Tiwasan pa gyud unta sa mga sundalo daw ang duha ka bata. Nagpakiluoy pa si Melanie sa ilaha (The soldiers even wanted to finish off the two other children (Vicky and Risa) but Melanie pleaded.)”
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
She was not simply the wife of an indigenous anti-mining activist. Juvy Capion, the woman killed in what is now called the Tampakan massacre, was a farmer, mother of four, and leader of the Blaan community.
By WARREN CAHAYAG
Davao Today
They are demanding the military to account for such “act of barbarity”, saying that relieving the perpetrators is not enough but the pull-out of these troops “who have become attack dogs against lumads who are only defending their land from being turned into ugly mine sites.”
BY DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“Historically, laws were used to displace us, that is why we also need to go into mainstream politics for us to be able to advance our rights,” says Katribu partylist first nominee Beverly Longid
By Danilda L. Fusilero
DAVAO TODAY
The notorious rape of one university student involving the kin of influencial Montawal clan in adjacent Datu Montawal municipality in Maguindanao also took place in one lodging house in Kabacan in 2008.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
The Philippine Senate ratified on Tuesday a bicameral report on The Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012. If enacted, it would make the Philippines the first country in Asia to criminalize enforced disappearances.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Karapatan-Socsksargends, however, said Bravo was lying. What happened, he said, was an attack by Philippine Army troops against hapless lumads who are opposed to the operation of foreign and large-scale mining SMI-Xstrata, in their ancestral land.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Representative Tinio of Act-Teachers said he voted no to the appropriations because it “continues the decades’ long trend of prioritizing debt servicing over education, health and sanitation and other social services.”
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“After a year, justice still eludes for Fr. Pops. His murder is emblematic of the continuing state of impunity under the PNoy administration” — Atty. Carlos Isagani Zarate, Second Nominee, Bayan Muna
