For at least four hours, firefighters tried to put out the fire that hit a residential area and a large portion of the busy public market in Kilometer 11, Barangay Sasa here last Friday, November 24.
Foreign delegates of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), journalists and church workers light candles at the St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Maa, Davao City to commemorate the death of 58 individuals, including 32 journalists, on the eighth year anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre on Thursday, November 23. (Medel V. Hernani / davaotoday.com)
A monument was built near the massacre site in remembrance of the 53 victims of the Maguindanao massacre on November 23, 2009. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Farmers under the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries One Movement (AOM) hold a protest outside the venue of the pubic hearing of the House of the Representatives Committee on Agrarian Reform on the impact of agribusiness venture arrangements (AVAs). Protesting farmers call for the cancellation of all AVAs to grant them full control of their lands awarded by the government. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Families, including colleagues of the 58 killed in the Ampatuan massacre at Sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman, Ampatuan, Maguindanao, were here on Sunday, November 19, to commemorate the single deadliest election-related violence in the history of the Philippines.