Windows to Davao’s Soul
From museums to historical markers to works of arts and ethnic fashion, Davao has them. They are more than mementos and souvenirs - they usher the visitor to a glorious…
The Davao Region (an introduction)
Southern Mindanao offers abundant resources and a resilient people. According to business leaaders, it holds so much promise of progress. But the region is also a land wracked by decades…
Davao City (A Brief Introduction)
Here, one may find herself in the middle of the jungle of Mount Apo, the Philippines's highest peak, and finds that she is still within city limits. By Germelina A.…
One Day in the Life of a Davao Traveler
The city has become so many different things to so many different people. From merely the Nueva Guipuzcoa province, Nueva Vergara city, for the first Spaniards who arrived here, to the Japanese’ “Little Tokyo” before the war, it has become an eco-tourism destination, offering a host of packages featuring such adventure sports like scuba diving, mountain climbing, spelunking, kayaking, caving.
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DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) ? Mayor Rodrigo Duterte likes to regale his guests with the story of how, one time, using a piece of firewood, he crushed the hands of a man accused of stealing hand-held radios. The problem with the story, as the mayor himself would tell his visitors, is that he had actually punished the wrong man.
Duterte laughed out loud when he narrated this story one evening last week, during dinner with friends and journalists. He used the story to drive home the point that he hates thieves and criminals with passion.
The irony was apparently lost on him. To his critics, however, this story illustrates perfectly what is so wrong with Duterte?s obsession with ridding the city of criminals using what has been described by the mayor?s critics as criminal methods. Because he sidesteps due process, they say, he is bound to make mistakes sooner or later.
Indeed, according to the Coalition Against Summary Executions (CASE), an alliance of human rights and child advocates in the city, 12 of the 469 murdered by death squads or hired killers here from 1998 until 2005 had been cases of mistaken identity.