Air strike killed civilian T’bolis, says NDF
The National Democratic Front alleged that a recent government air strike has “killed three civilian T'bolis, including one woman.”
STOP LARGE-SCALE MINING. Tribal leader Genasque Enriquez, Katribu Party-list’s second nominee, calls on the Aquino government to stop the continued intrusion of foreign and large-scale mining companies to the indigenous peoples’ ancestral lands in Mindanao in a protest Saturday outside the Camp Crame in Quezon City. (davaotoday.com photo by Alex D. Lopez)
(Update) Arrested IP leader says he is “not in hiding, not guilty”
A leader of an indigenous people’s group arrested by government agents earlier today said he was “never in hiding” and that he is not “guilty” of the charges filed against him.
Groups say Palparan nation’s symbol of military brutality, state fascism’
Human rights activists said that former military General Jovito Palpatan is the country’s icon of “military brutality and state fascism.”
Activist arrested in Surigao City
Government agents arrested on Friday in Surigao City a tribal activist and a former nominee to the partylist Katribu in the 2010 national elections
Military points JI terror group behind Cotabato blast
The military has blamed the bomb explosion on Tuesday in Cotabato City to the terror group, Jema'ah Islamiyah, saying that fragments of the bomb were similar to the signature bomb maker of the group currently believed coddled by a breakaway Moro revolutionary group.