An estimate of 5,000 Lumads, farmers, activists and human rights advocates from Mindanao started their caravan to Manila on Monday, July 18 to mark President Rodrigo Duterte’s first State of the Nation Address in Manila.
Over 200 people’s rights advocates from 25 countries are set to convene here for the first International Conference for People’s Rights in the Philippines on July 23 to 24. The conference is co-sponsored by the International League of People’s Struggle and the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan.
Acting City Mayor Paolo Duterte has called on the Davao City Police Office to conduct a thorough probe on the violent attack against two Lumad leaders here on Friday last week, July 15.
The Department of Justice dismissed the kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges against 15 human rights activists on Monday afternoon, July 18.
Armed men riding in tandem killed the secretary of a Parent-Teachers Association of a Lumad school here while his companion, a tribal leader was critically wounded in an attack on Friday afternoon in Barangay Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District here.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in region 11, clarified that alleged drug lord, Peter Lim was not invited for meeting last Friday, July 15 in their office but that he voluntarily surrendered to President Rodrigo Duterte to clear his name.
Hope seems bright for the 15 activists here who are facing kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges of Lumad evacuees after the accusers issued their affidavits of recantation and desistance.
An Army official bared that some tribal leaders are mulling to launch a “pangayaw” or tribal war for the death of Ata Manobo leader Ruben Labawan.
Residents scored the alleged abuses of a tribal chieftain in Caraga town, Davao Oriental province which have triggered military offensives and displaced at least 399 families.
A columnist for a local newspaper, whose son is among those charged with kidnapping and serious illegal detention of tribal residents inside a church compound here, appealed to her colleagues in the press to help out in setting the records straight that those accused are not kidnappers.
