Nilo, 22 said he was about to file his leave of absence from work to join his mother’s birthday celebration next month.
Human rights advocates of Karapatan Southern Mindanao (SMR) group protested in front of the office of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) XI to express their dismay with the continuing human rights violations in Davao region.
The call for justice for the killing of Italian priest, Father Fausto Tentorio, PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) continues four years after he was shot several times inside a parish compound in Arakan Valley, North Cotabato on October 17, 2011.
Governor Johnny Pimentel of Surigao del Sur renews his calls to disband paramilitary forces who are allegedly responsible for the killing of officers of a tribal school and the evacuation of thousands of residents now camped at Tandag City provincial sports complex.
Children of victims of paramilitary killings in Surigao town urged President Benigno Aquino III to end the killings of indigenous peoples or Lumads.
Yosie, wife of Emerito Samarca who was killed by members of the militia group Magahat Bagani Force, said he was a good man who did not have enemies.
A human rights group here has tagged the military as behind the killing of the executive director of Lumad school in Surigao, and described it as part of a serial killing of those managing the tribal schools elsewhere.
Five days after two civilians were reportedly killed by alleged members of a tribal armed group in Surigao del Sur, the residents in a village in Lianga, Surigao del Sur were woken up by the loud sounds of combat boots kicking the walls of their houses early morning Tuesday.
Human rights group Karapatan in Caraga region said two brothers in Surigao del Sur were killed Thursday evening by alleged members of the tribal forces locally known as Bagani Force.
Unidentified assailants onboard a gray Honda Fit vehicle gunned down Gregorio Ybañez, the president of the Davao del Norte Press and Radio-TV Club (DNPRC), 9 pm Tuesday outside his home in Mirafuentes Subdivision, this city.
