Around 4:00 pm on Tuesday, troops outside the Spottswood Methodist Center withdrew and left the protesting farmers and progressive groups which sought refuge at the Church compound after a bloody dispersal last week.
Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph A. Evangelista issued a “Notice of Violation” to the Spottswood Methodist Center in a letter dated April 1, directing the church to explain why their business permit should not be revoked.
A nationwide network of independent media organizations, AlterMidya denounced today, April 4 "police intimidation and attempts to suppress information" by preventing journalists from covering the violent dispersal of the farmers' rally in Kidapawan City on April 1.
A peasant group on Friday scored the “insensitive and unsympathetic” remark of administration bet Manuel “Mar” Roxas over the brutal and bloody Kidapawan massacre.
The call to donate rice for the drought-stricken farmers in North Cotabato province gained sympathy from the public after the barricade of the farmers in Kidapawan City were dispersed Friday morning, April 1.