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PNP personnel visit Erythrina Building after news on presence of armed men broke out last December 20. (Photo by Jinky Mendoza-Aguilar/Kodao)

Catholic shrine,activist organizations report police,military “harassment”

A revered Catholic Church shrine in Parañaque and a building housing activist organizations in Quezon City complained of harassments Thursday, reporting those police officers and suspected military agents are out to further intimidate institutions and organizations critical of the Rodrigo Duterte regime.

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Read more about the article Military has long been engaged in hamletting of Lumad communities — Pasaka
'PULL? ?OUT TROOPS'.Lumad group PASAKA holds protest outside the venue of the Indigenous Peoples Summit on Thursday, February 1, to call for President Rodrigo Duterte to pull ?out the soldiers from Lumad communities to pave way for the safe return of Lumad evacuees in UCCP Haran. (Mark Joy G. Basallajes/davaotoday.com)

Military has long been engaged in hamletting of Lumad communities — Pasaka

Soldiers have been undertaking the “hamletting” of indigenous communities in its all-out war against communist rebels, even before the statement of President Rodrigo Duterte, a militant lumad group in Mindanao decried.

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Read more about the article Salugpongan leaders slam red-tagging
Council members of the lumad group Salugpongan Ta 'tanu Igkanugon in a press conference on Tuesday, December 11, 2018, in United Churhc of Christ in the Philippines Haran evacuation center, deny that it has links with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA). (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

Salugpongan leaders slam red-tagging

The Salugpongan Council denied on Tuesday that it has links with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA).

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Read more about the article ML extension normalizes killings in Mindanao—Suara Bangsamoro
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ML extension normalizes killings in Mindanao—Suara Bangsamoro

The spate of killings in Mindanao is expected to continue after Congress and Senate approved on Wednesday the extension of martial law, a militant Moro group said, noting that it is being used by President Rodrigo Duterte to cling in power.

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