A day before the joint U.S.-Philippine Balikatan military exercises, young Moro protesters led a barricade in barangay Sarimanok in Marawi City, which ended up with protesters hurling stones at a passing convoy of vehicles loaded with U.S. soldiers. Not contented, the protesters chased the fleeing Hi-Ace and Toyota vans and hit the car windows with stones. Aida Ibrahim, chair of the Moro youth organization Liga ng Kabataang Moro (LKM) in Marawi said the Moro youth will do everything they can to drive the U.S. troops away.
The demand for jobs in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in Davao City is expected to go up, according to Davao ICT Council chairperson Lizabel Holganza.
SPEAK THE TRUTH! Angry students from the University of the Philippines Mindanao (UP Mindanao) shout their demand at Romulo Neri, the chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), during Neri’s visit here Friday to meet with the UP Board of Regents. Neri hurriedly sneaked out of the campus to avoid the protesting students. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
By CJ KUIZON, CHERYLL FIEL, MARILOU AGUIRRE, GRACE UDDIN and DAISY GONZALES | Davao Today
In Davao, the rest of Mindanao and the country, mobilizations find thousands of people in the streets. Will Lozada’s testimony be enough of a spark to ignite a change in leadership?
Students light up candles during the interfaith prayer rally in Davao City on Friday. “We are protecting our future,” one of them says. MORE PHOTOS.(davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
PHOTO ESSAY From the towns of Baganga, Cateel and Boston in Davao Oriental, more than 200 Mandaya farmers walked the five-kilometer distance from the downtown area of Mati, the province’s capital, to Barangay Dahikan, the seat of legislative power, to criticize the military for the alleged human rights abuses in their villages.
After the New People’s Army (NPA) admitted their mistake in the February 2 killing of Davao businessman Vicente Ferrazini, the family of the slain businessman asked the Communist rebels to leave Davao and the entire family in peace.
