The Songs of Jabidah
By Germelina Lacorte davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY -- For years now, the new generation of Moro tribes in Mindanao have been hearing about what happened in the Jabidah Massacre 38 years…
2 More Paquibato Residents Killed as Bandits Continue Rampage
By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — Two more residents in Paquibato were killed last week, the latest in the spate of killings in the hinterland district allegedly perpetrated by a bandit group that has ties to the military.
The victims, who came from different areas in Malabog, a village in Paquibato, had been stabbed; one of them, a 25-year-old man identified only as Luciano, was slashed in the neck. The other victim, Reynaldo Ca?ete, 35, also lost his carabao to the killers.
Generoso Baon, an official of Malabog, told the GMA-7 news program Testigo that the bandits had been running amok after Mayor Rodrigo Duterte announced a bounty for their capture.
38 Years Later, Jabidah Still Haunts a Persecuted People
Thirty-eight years ago, the Marcos military murdered dozens of Moro men in a carnage that sparked the Islamic rebellion in the Philippines. The anguish and the outrage remain to this day.
Related story: The Songs of Jabidah?
By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY ? Almost four decades later, the anguish and the thirst for justice remained.
Today, March 18, the country?s Moros commemorate the killing by the Philippine military of 28 Moro men on the island of Corregidor 38 years ago, in a carnage that has come to be known as the Jabidah Massacre.
The men had been trained by the dictator Marcos to take part in his plot, called Operation Merdeka, to invade Sabah, a state on the northern part of Malaysia, just south of the Philippines. According to various accounts, when the men found out about Merdeka, they refused to participate and were promptly slain by the military. Several of the men were not accounted for and are presumed dead.
One man, Jirin Arula, survived the slaughter, however, and went on to expose the massacre, which subsequently fueled the rebellion led by Nur Misuari, founding chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front. To this day, the fire ignited by the massacre still burns, according to Moro leaders.
The massacre, according to the IQRAA Islam Foundation, which held a rally here on Friday to commemorate the incident, “ignited the flame of the Bangsamoro people’s legitimate struggle for their right to self-determination.”
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Rising Joblessness, Underemployment Refute ?Improving Economy? Claim
MANILA — Employment statistics from the recently released January 2006 Labor Force Survey (LFS) belies government?s claim of an improving economy, according to independent think-tank Ibon Foundation. The January 2006 LFS actually paints a picture of a weak, worsening economy unable to generate long-term, sustainable jobs, the foundation said.
According to the LFS, some 2.8 million Filipinos failed to find work in January 2006, up by 15% from 2.5 million in the same period last year. The decrease in jobs came from the industry sector, which shed some 95,000 jobs mostly from the manufacturing and construction sub-sectors. In a strong, vibrant economy, manufacturing should be the backbone of the country?s industrial sector and a major source of job creation.
Special Report: A Life in Pain
A 26-year-old mother endured six long years of abuse, neglect and fear. Like other survivors of domestic violence, she went through the cycle of pain and confusion. It took the wisdom of a boy to finally set her free.
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By Germelina A. Lacorte
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — The first thing she noticed when he became her boyfriend was he did not like the way she dressed. Tall and slender, she was fond of wearing tight-fitting clothes, which he said was calling the men’s attention to her. This was often the cause of their early quarrels.
At that time, when he used to slap her, she thought it was her fault. She started wearing loose T-shirts. “It made me look like a hanger because I was very thin,” Sarah (not her real name) recalled.
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