Kuni made his final trek home to Barangay Kiadsam on June 11 inside a coffin, carried by villagers and relatives. Last June 8 at dawn, he was shot dead by soldiers under the Philippine Army’s 7th Infantry Battalion.
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Vice President Sara Duterte resigned from her cabinet posts as education secretary and as vice-chair of the counter-insurgency agency National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).
DAVAO CITY, Philippines –A government prosecutor’s murder last week was condemned by lawyers’ group as a continuing impunity that imperils…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Davao Region’s police chief along with several police officers from the intelligence and Special Forces were…
DAVAO CITY,Philippines – Quiet on other issues except for Quiboloy. This is the criticism raised by various sectoral leaders on…
Journalists, NGO workers, and union organizers are disputing the position of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. that he will not dissolve the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), which has been known for red-tagging individuals and groups since its formation in 2018.
The Catholic community and human rights advocates mourn the loss of Redemptorist priest Fr. Amado Picardal, CSsR, who passed away from cardiac arrest at age 69 on Wednesday, May 29.
DAVAO CITY, Philippines -The Supreme Court this week ruled that red-tagging – the act of labeling activists and others as…
Lawmakers express frustration on fugitive preacher Apollo Quiboloy for his “disrespect of law and due process” to face legal charges filed against him and are supporting plans from the justice department to transfer the cases from Davao to Manila.
The University of the Philippines Mindanao campus will be opening its College of Medicine program in 2025, in its effort to produce more doctors to address the shortage of health care professionals for the people.