Danilo Nadal, 37, was a member of Hugpong sa mga Mag-uuma sa Pantukan (HUMAPAN), a local farmer’s group in the said town. He sustained 10 gunshot wounds.
The “people’s court” of the National Democratic Front in Southern Mindanao indicted former President Benigno Aquino III, North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista, North Cotabato Representative Nancy Catamco, for “crimes against humanity” following the death of two farmers during the Kidapawan bloody dispersal of 6, 000 Lumad and farmers in April, last year.
Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano ordered the reinstallation of several agrarian reform beneficiaries from Mindanao.
Speaking before the Filipino migrant workers who wanted to join the opening of the fourth round of talks at the Radisson Blu Palace Hotel here on Sunday morning, government chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III said the government panel needed to discuss the instructions from President Duterte with their counterparts from the NDFP.
The mayor of Valencia City in Bukidnon Province said the burning of the government-run high school was accidental based on the investigation of the Philippine National Police.
Philippine government chief peace negotiator Silvestre Bello III said the government will not declare a unilateral ceasefire prior to the fourth round of talks with the communists in the coming days.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has formed an adhoc committee to study the causes of Moro radicalism.
Philippine officials meeting with Japanese in Tokyo presented government priority projects for possible implementation under the Japan Official Development Assistance.
The National Union of the Journalists of the Philippines scored President Rodrigo Duterte for his “incoherent and foulmouthed rant” after he attacked two Manila-based media.
The head of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Valencia City in Bukidnon clarified Thursday that the school allegedly burned by the New People’s Army turned out to be caused a faulty electrical wiring.
