“Country cannot afford partial peace” – former peace negotiator
The government’s peace panel must talk with all rebel groups to achieve “total peace” in the country, a former peace negotiator and now partylist congressman believes.
Press club prexy shot to death
Unidentified assailants onboard a gray Honda Fit vehicle gunned down Gregorio Ybañez, the president of the Davao del Norte Press and Radio-TV Club (DNPRC), 9 pm Tuesday outside his home in Mirafuentes Subdivision, this city.
Solon accuses military behind charges against him
A legislator described “preposterous and wild fabrications” the case of “serious illegal detention and child abuse” which was filed against him and seven other Lumad (indigenous people in Mindanao) leaders and human rights advocates for allegedly preventing a child evacuee and her family from leaving their sanctuary at the United Church of Christ in Philippines (UCCP) Haran Compound in Davao City.
Death of Philippine Eagle Pamana ‘disturbing’, groups urged gov’t to prosecute killer
The Philippine Eagle Foundation described the killing of the Philippine Eagle (scientific name Pithecopaga jefferyi), Pamana, who was recently released in Mt. Hamiguitan range in Davao Oriental province as “disturbing”.
Farmer, former village official who ‘resisted’ Army ops in North Cotabato shot dead
A leader of a farmer's organization who “resisted” Army operations in their village North Cotabato, was killed morning of Tuesday in Barangay Naje, Arakan town.