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.
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.
Their exact number could not be immediately determined but random interviews with some of them revealed that government teaching positions are currently the better, if not, the only option over issues of security of tenure, higher paying job and other perks.
This city lags behind in awareness to prevent the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the dreaded acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), as the number of HIV-AIDS cases rose in the first quarter of this year.
The issue of the Talaingod Manobo displacement would be raised by an indigenous peoples woman leader in the ongoing 13th United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York starting last May 12 to 23.
Prolonged power outages have angered first-time registrants during the city’s continuing voter’s registration at the Commission on Election.
Because it was not registered as a corporation, collection of payments made by the Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative (Daneco), under the wing of National Electrification Administration (NEA), is “illegal.”
Davao activists expressed alarm that they might be the next target of arrests and “trumped-up” charges by the military in the wake of recent incidence of rights abuses. This, as a partylist congressman condemned what he calls as the use of “fall guy trick(s)” to justify illegal arrests.
Mounting offensives from both Armed Forces of the Philippines and the New People’s Army have escalated in the past weeks as the government peace panel snubbed proposals to re-open talks with the National Democratic Front.
Manila-based rights advocates and partylist representatives joined a week-long fact-finding mission starting Monday to look into the region’s “rampant human rights violations” in farflung communities.
