Town’s LGBT agenda pushed
By Mart D. Sambalud
Contributor
Davao Today
The absence of pro-LGBT agenda among political bets “strip LGBTs of their basic human rights” and make them “second-class or low-level constituents.”
Pablo relief mission stranded due to military harassment
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Missioners were already on their way back to the town center from Sitio Limot in Barangay Binondo, the site of their relief mission, when their contingent met a roadblock allegedly set up by members of the Philippine Army’s 67thInfantry Battalion. The missioners are forced to spend the night in Sitio Cabuyao Nursery, Barangay Binondo in Baganga, the site of the infamous “Baganga Massacre” that killed three children in August 2002 when military allegedly strafed a house of the resident where members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were believed to be staying.
Losing faith in police investigation
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today
“Ang pulis ug sundalo, usa ra gyud ni sila. Pagkangalan nga sibilyan, luoy ang sibilyan, ila ra gyud nang tabunan. Ipalutaw gyud nang ilang bakak (Police and soldiers are one and the same. Because the way they treat civilians, they cover things up, and surface lies).”-- Sonny Cortes
Today’s View: The logic of history
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
JUSTICE FOR ROQUE
Militants picket outside the Commission on Human Rights-XI office in Davao City Monday as they slammed the AFP and demanded for justice for Roque Antivo, the child allegedly killed by…