Int’l rights group tags former mayor in 300 ‘death squad’ killings
A former mayor is implicated by a human rights group’s report on “death squad” killings in Tagum City that felled around 300 people in the past four years.
Schools ready for disaster after Davao Norte’s Brigada Eskwela
Disaster preparedness marked the annual Brigada Eskwela or the nationwide school maintenance week Monday.
Duterte thought twice to help NPA captive accused of logging, illegal drugs
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he was at first hesitant to help a soldier recently held by the New People’s Army when he learned that the Prisoner of War (POW) was involved in illegal logging and drug use.
Evacuation echoes yearning for protected land for tribal Manobos
They slept by day. At night, they left. Following the trail of the river, they walked, crawled, and stumbled. Datu Tungig Mansumuy-at didn’t use flashlights so that they won’t be seen. They first carried their children then went back for the ill.
North Cotabato village to ask AFP to spare residents from counterinsurgency interrogations
Barangay leaders of village in Magpet, North Cotabato said they planned to pass a resolution that would ask the government Armed Forces to spare their residents from counterinsurgency interrogations, saying that the mostly farmer residents have expressed fear for their lives while working in isolated farms.