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Captured soldier Cammayo assures family in NPA video

DAVAO CITY?Captured soldier Vicente Cammayo assured his wife and family he is ?treated well? in a video sent by Communist New People?s Army (NPA) guerrillas to media on Sunday, almost a month after the soldier?s capture in an ambush in a Monkayo village. Cammayo, the commander of the 11th Company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion, also said in the video he was not wounded and that he surrendered to the NPA in an encounter in sitio Amagase of Monkayo town?s barangay Casoon in Compostela Valley province.

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Ma. Luisa Tumol (left), wife of PO3 Eduard Tumol, and Mariel Cammayo (right), wife of Lt. Vicente Cammayo, make the appeal to the New People's Army in a forum by the Exodus for Justice and Peace, a multi-sectoral group calling for the resumption of peace talks between the government and the NDFP. Communist rebels earlier admitted holding the two soldiers prisoners of war. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

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Bayan says MOA-AD is a ploy to extend Arroyo’s term

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today

The militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) fears the government has not entirely given up on the controversial memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD), which the group sees as a ploy to change the Constitution to extend the term of the President.

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More people in Luzon, Visayas call for a stop to the war in Mindanao

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today

People in the Visayas and Luzon are joining calls to stop the war in Mindanao after the peace caravan that traveled the whole stretch of the archipelago for seven days had open their eyes to understand the conflict for the first time, Gus Miclat, the executive director of IID, said upon the return of the caravan here.

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How important is the MOA-AD on the Moro people’s quest for right to self- determination?

By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today

The Bangsamoro's age-old problem had something to do with self-governance. The Bangsamoro people, who used to be under the rule of a Sultanate, lost their self- governance when Spain included Mindanao in the sale of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1898, despite the fact that Spain never really conquered Mindanao as part of the colony.

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