A sickly political prisoner was released Thursday in a twist of sad fate showing that it took more than four years for the court to realize that the person who filed the information lacked the authority after all.
Author Archives: ZEA IO MING C. CAPISTRANO
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines said it will recommend to the New People’s Army to release the three prisoners-of-war in Sultan Kudarat and Surigao del Sur as measure of goodwill in the peace negotiations.
Two farmers were killed in Davao Oriental in an escalating violent conflict between the New People’s Army and the military in the week that followed the Communist Party of the Philippine’s lifting of its unilateral ceasefire.
Ren Clacer, member of the New Jersey Filipino Women’s Organizing Committee, said they were alarmed with Trump’s “unjust policies towards immigrants, the poor, people of color, and other marginalized groups – further oppressing people who are victims of US policies in their homelands.”
A participant during the national convention of the Philippine Association of Water Districts poses with a standee of President Rodrigo Duterte outside the venue of the convention on Thursday, Feb. 2. Duterte was guest during the event. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
In his speech during the 38th National Convention of the Philippine Association of Water Districts, Duterte said the revolutionary forces should not coerce him as he had already “conceded too much, too soon.”
The government peace panel believes there is still a chance to iron out issues following the decision of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army’s National Operations Command to terminate its unilateral ceasefire.
The NPA said government troops are operating in more than 500 villages, more than 164 municipalities and 43 provinces in the country.
A junior officer of the 67th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army was killed on Wednesday afternoon in a clash with suspected members of the New People’s Army in Manay, Davao Oriental.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announced Tuesday that the Army is now in ‘full swing’ against Abu Sayyaf and other local terrorist groups.
