Military operations in ComVal is linked to mining ? environmental alliance

Davao City -- Panalipdan-Southern Mindanao, a broad alliance from members of environmental groups, human rights organizations, religious groups, research organizations, the academe, civil society groups, and people?s organizations lambasted the…

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Military’s biodata requirement an intrusion on privacy and press freedom

The National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) is incensed at the sudden requirement imposed by major Eugene Batara, spokesman of the Western Mindanao command, for journalists to fill…

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BAYAN warns of more military intervention during CBA negotiation with Dole Philippines

Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or the New Patriotic Alliance)-Socsksargen warns of more military intervention, particularly by the 27th infantry battallion, as the negotiations for addendum to the present collective bargaining…

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Boston villagers recount tales of military abuses

Villagers said soldiers mauled and illegally detained three men from Simulao for two days and tied them to a tree. They also allegedly robbed a civilian's motorcycle and destroyed several properties in Barangay Caatihan. In the hinterlands of Tubungan, in Barangay Caatihan of Boston town, soldiers stopped and confiscated three sacks of rice that two men bought from Boston upon suspicion that these are supply for Communist rebels.

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