Armed men riding in tandem killed the secretary of a Parent-Teachers Association of a Lumad school here while his companion, a tribal leader was critically wounded in an attack on Friday afternoon in Barangay Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District here.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in region 11, clarified that alleged drug lord, Peter Lim was not invited for meeting last Friday, July 15 in their office but that he voluntarily surrendered to President Rodrigo Duterte to clear his name.
Hope seems bright for the 15 activists here who are facing kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges of Lumad evacuees after the accusers issued their affidavits of recantation and desistance.
An Army official bared that some tribal leaders are mulling to launch a “pangayaw” or tribal war for the death of Ata Manobo leader Ruben Labawan.
Residents scored the alleged abuses of a tribal chieftain in Caraga town, Davao Oriental province which have triggered military offensives and displaced at least 399 families.