Leaders of Compostela Farmers Association (CFA) trooped to the Commission on Human Rights Region XI office here on Monday morning to file their complaints against members of the Army who were “harassing” them.
More than a hundred student leaders and campus journalists from the seven campuses of the University of the Philippines in the country visited the evacuation camp of indigenous peoples’ inside the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Haran compound here.
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) said that out of nine journalists killed in the country last year, “at least three were killed in the line of duty”.
The suspect in the killing of indigenous peoples’ leaders and a school director in a town in Surigao del Sur last September 1, was seen partying a day before New Year’s eve in a village near a military detachment.
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines pledged to fulfill its promise to support the Lumads on their struggles right after its visit to the camp out in Metro Manila last November.
Party-list group Anakpawis said the government did not do enough to stop the execution of Joselito Zapanta, an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to death for killing a Sudanese national back in 2009.
A child rights’ advocate group reminded Mayor Rodrigo Duterte that poverty is still the cause of crimes in the country.
An official of the City Social Services and Development Office (CSSDO) reported that no Lumad visiting the city for the holiday was killed this year, but four of them were hit in vehicular accidents.
A progressive partylist lawmaker strongly condemned the paramilitary group in Surigao del Sur after issuing threats against members of the media who are covering the anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines this Saturday.
City life is far different from the way of life of the indigenous peoples’ in the countrysides, said Juanito Binaton, an evacuee who is among the hundreds of evacuees here in Davao City.
