Armed men riding in tandem killed the secretary of a Parent-Teachers Association of a Lumad school here while his companion, a tribal leader was critically wounded in an attack on Friday afternoon in Barangay Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District here.
Hope seems bright for the 15 activists here who are facing kidnapping and serious illegal detention charges of Lumad evacuees after the accusers issued their affidavits of recantation and desistance.
A columnist for a local newspaper, whose son is among those charged with kidnapping and serious illegal detention of tribal residents inside a church compound here, appealed to her colleagues in the press to help out in setting the records straight that those accused are not kidnappers.
?The f?a?mily of slain anti-Communist Ata tribal leader Ruben Labawan ?insisted on his innocence to the accusations hurled by the New People’s Army (NPA), who owned responsibility to the killing.
Two teachers of a community school in Paquibato district left their school early in the morning Thursday, July 7 after receiving death threats from the paramilitary group, Alamara.