Author: DAVAO TODAY

In a recent human-rights summit, participants recounted incidents of human-rights abuses and sheer terror in the hands of government forces. They also decried the continuing militarization in Mindanao that displaces and terrorizes communities but benefits big logging, mining and other multinational companies. Davao Today’s Tyrone Velez reports.

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