Bayan Muna rep asks House to investigate forced closure of Lumad schools
Bayan Muna Rep. Eufemia Cullamat recently filed a resolution in Congress calling for an investigation on the closure of Salugpongan schools in Mindanao.
Bayan Muna Rep. Eufemia Cullamat recently filed a resolution in Congress calling for an investigation on the closure of Salugpongan schools in Mindanao.
Human rights group Karapatan questioned Defense Sec. Delfin Lorenzana's order to set up checkpoints in areas in Mindanao affected by the series of earthquakes.
A human rights worker in Southern Mindanao has been reported missing, according to rights group Karapatan.
It was nine in the morning when people felt the strong tremors. In a split second, houses collapsed, and the trees were uprooted. The national disaster agency said that it was a 6.6 magnitude tremor in Mindanao that killed at least eight people on October 29.
Authorities arrested 56 persons they alleged were communist rebels and “rescued” six minors supposedly undergoing “training and “indoctrination” during simultaneous raids on the offices of three activist groups and a private residence in Bacolod City early Friday evening, October 31.