At war over her body
Tudaya’s Allure
Gushes of spray bathed me, and even when I looked down, the water would sting my eyes. After a few minutes, the loud drum roll of the waterfalls faded into light pelting and my vision cleared. We were past the waterfalls and before us was the large green patch of vegetation I had long wanted to see.
Rody’s War
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DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) ? Mayor Rodrigo Duterte likes to regale his guests with the story of how, one time, using a piece of firewood, he crushed the hands of a man accused of stealing hand-held radios. The problem with the story, as the mayor himself would tell his visitors, is that he had actually punished the wrong man.
Duterte laughed out loud when he narrated this story one evening last week, during dinner with friends and journalists. He used the story to drive home the point that he hates thieves and criminals with passion.
The irony was apparently lost on him. To his critics, however, this story illustrates perfectly what is so wrong with Duterte?s obsession with ridding the city of criminals using what has been described by the mayor?s critics as criminal methods. Because he sidesteps due process, they say, he is bound to make mistakes sooner or later.
Indeed, according to the Coalition Against Summary Executions (CASE), an alliance of human rights and child advocates in the city, 12 of the 469 murdered by death squads or hired killers here from 1998 until 2005 had been cases of mistaken identity.
In Full Control
Using his unmatched political savvy, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has kept the City Council under his thumb.
By Germelina Lacorte
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY ? A few months ago, war erupted at the City Council. It was between a large group of people identified with Mayor Rodrigo Duterte against a smaller group of people identified with Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
Duterte was not pitting these people against each other. It was just that these feuding groups were dying to please him.
But far from undermining Duterte’s influence on the City Council, the feud only tightened his hold on it. This display of power over the legislative branch has once again highlighted the reality that, in this city, Duterte is in full control.
Teenagers Perish in Davao’s Killing Fields
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