The Communist Party of the Philippines denied the allegations of President Rodrigo Duterte that the revolutionary group conspired with the Liberal Party to overthrow his administration.
The New People’s Army Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command scored a military unit in Mindanao for its plan to recruit 300 Lumad to beef up the government’s counter-insurgency campaign against the communist rebels.
After seven years of languishing inside the prison facility, Eddie Cruz, a Dumagat political prisoner was finally freed after a local court acquitted him from the “trumped-up charges” filed against him, a human rights group said.
President Rodrigo Duterte said it would take another president to seal a peace accord with the communists.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development Region 11 office announced Thursday, October 5 the opening of the amateur songwriting and music video-making competition themed on human trafficking. Alma D. Acera, focal of DSWD’s Recovery and Reintegration Program for Trafficked Persons, said the song and video must follow the minimum length of three minutes and maximum of four minutes running time.