Farmer residents wait for buyers of Pechay, a type of Chinese cabbage, sold for P15 per kilo along the Davao-Bukidnon road in Barangay Baganihan, Marilog district, Davao City on Sunday, Mar. 12, 2017.(Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano)
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Church leaders are calling for the government troops to declare a suspension of military operations for the safe release of two soldiers held captive by the New People’s Army in North Cotabato province.
In a statement released Friday night, Rigoberto Sanchez, spokesperson of the NPA Southern Mindanao Operations Command said the NPAs carried out an order “to exact revolutionary justice” against a certain Marlon Lomantas at 2:20 am whom they claimed is a former military man “turned active intelligence agent of the 39th IB and a known drug trader” in Barangay Sibayan.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines confirmed that they are engaging in backchannel talks with the government but refused to give further details.
Partylist lawmaker Carlos Isagani Zarate of Bayan Muna condemned the killing of a local coordinator in Basilan yesterday who was tagged as an Abu Sayyaf leader.
If he would have his way, Philippine National Police chief Ronald Dela Rosa wanted that peace talks be finally concluded “to prevent more bloodshed from both sides” following the killings of four police officers in Bansalan town yesterday morning.
The National Union of People’s Lawyers and religious organizations have collaborated to launch a campaign against the government’s Oplan Tokhang.
President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to visit on Thursday afternoon the wake of police officers killed in an ambush in Bansalan town, Davao del Sur.
Matigsalug women from Barangay Malabog in Paquibato District, Davao City join the city’s commemoration of the International Women’s Day Wednesday, March 8, 2017 held at the People’s Park. Sarita Villarosa (right), 40, says they hope the government will assist them in their livelihood and in providing education for their children. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Duterte said the world can look up to women “for their creativity and imagination, for their courage and boldness, for their sacrifice and charity.”
