Over 700 Mindanaoans are now travelling to Metro Manila to raise human rights issues in Mindanao.
Author Archives: EARL O. CONDEZA
Family members of one of two captured soldiers request for their kin’s safe release after knowing they are safe.
Governor Johnny Pimentel of Surigao del Sur renews his calls to disband paramilitary forces who are allegedly responsible for the killing of officers of a tribal school and the evacuation of thousands of residents now camped at Tandag City provincial sports complex.
Teofisto Guingona, III visits the Lumad evacuees in Tandag City provincial sports center Thursday morning before the start of the Senate inquiry on the Lumad killings in Mindanao. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
The Senate began Thursday its inquiry into the killings of Lumad leaders in Surigao del Sur.
(Photo by Aya Ragragio) The Army on Monday held more than a hundred guests attending a foundation day of a Lumad school in Talaingod, Davao del Norte.
Before the leaders of the Mercy Mission entered Purok 2, representatives from the Local Government Unit of Kitaotao Municipality have already entered the area on the same day for a separate activity of giving relief goods to the residents.
Aside from being required to sign on the logbook at the entrance and exit points of Barangay White Culaman in Kitaotao town, Bukidnon, other residents have also experienced restrictions in their communication after members of the Army allegedly prohibited them to use mobile phones.
The public inquiry of the Commission on Human Rights on the plight of tribal communities in southern Mindanao, held Thursday, dismayed a council of tribal elders and their support groups.
Farmer villagers in a village in Bukidnon, northern part of Mindanao is experiencing hamletting similar to the scenario of Martial Law, an independent fact-finding mission of human rights groups reports held last September 16-18.
