The Phil. Drug Enforcement Agency-10 (PDEA-10) has expressed dismay over the decision of a local judge to acquit an alleged “drug queen” and several others who are facing drug-related charges.
A progressive Moro group, on Tuesday, was enraged when President Rodrigo Duterte visited and honored the 14 soldiers involved in the killing of seven Tausug youth in Patikul, Sulu, saying it insults and adds to the emotional injury suffered by the families of the slain civilians.
Authorities here often resorted to so-called "bus therapy" and "police mobile therapy" to people with mental illness left loitering in the city.
A volunteer for a human rights group Kawagib Moro Human Rights based in Maguindanao was shot and killed by suspected military agents at around 3:00 p.m of September 23, a spokesperson of the group said.
A militant Moro group on Monday belied the claim of former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile that the Jabidah massacre was a hoax, saying there were several Moro massacres which happened during the Martial law under the regime of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.