By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “We were surprised to learn the details,” a nun who requested anonymity reacted. She added that rights abuses have been happening in Mindanao, yet, “all the while, President Aquino’s been informing the Manila people that there were no human rights violations in Mindanao.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today On Saturday, Manilakbayan delegates held a protest outside the Camp Crame in Quezon City where they denounced the continued human rights violations in Mindanao due to the implementation of the counter-insurgency plan, Oplan Bayanihan, and the displacement of the indigenous peoples due to the presence of foreign-owned and large-scale mining corporations.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today The title, according to musical director Bong Aviola, was inspired “from one of the songs of the King and I,” a 1956 musical film by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II which was based on Margaret Landon’s 1944 novel ‘Anna and the King of Siam.’
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA Davao Today However, they weren’t able to approach the children right away. When they reached the house, government troops were already milling around in the area. “We were almost shot,” Aileen said. “They told us not to go near the house because Daguil Capion (Aileen’s brother) was still present,” she added.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “We are encouraged to actively participate in the forthcoming elections to push forward the aspirations and the solutions that we believe are answers to the prevailing problems of poverty due to landlessness, lack of decent jobs, graft and corruption and the domination of foreign policies in our system of government,” Joel Virador, former Bayan Muna Representative