Below is the statement issued on Jan. 31 by Editha ?Inday? Duterte, regional spokesperson of Anakpawis in Southern Mindanao
DAVAO CITY ? A progressive party-list here challenged today the Melo Commission and Malaca?ang to file appropriate charges as soon as possible against top military officers found involved in the killings of members and leaders of militant organizations and progressive party-lists.
Davao Today editor Carlos Conde reports in Frontline/World, one of the world's most credible and authoritative news sites, about the killings of activists in the Philippines. In his story, Conde…
To the relatives and friends of the Moros who died in separate incidents in Patikul, Sulu, on Jan. 18, the fatalities were not terrorists, as the military called them, but…
According to the military, 10 Abu Sayyaf terrorists were killed in Patikul, Sulu, on Jan. 18. But an official disclosed that five of the dead were actually MNLF members and that the other fatalities include a 12-year-old boy and a 90-year-old man who angrily stormed a Marine camp after the killing of two relatives, but was shot even before he could approach the entrance.
By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY ? On Jan. 18, the Philippine military announced that 10 alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group had been killed in separate encounters in Sulu province. The government later said that this was yet another boost to the campaign against terrorism.
But a public official in Jolo, the capital of Sulu, who is also an organizer for a human-rights group, belied those claims on Friday, saying that five of the fatalities were actually members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
Worse, according to Temugen Tulawie, a councilor of Jolo town, among those killed were a 90-year-old man, and a mini-bus driver and his 12-year-old son.
In fact, the old man, identified as Sarail Jaynaltul, was shot not in an encounter but when he stormed a Marine camp in indignation over the death that same day of his grandson and son-in-law, Tulawie said.
Amancio Carmelo, the secretary-general for Southern Mindanao of the progressive peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, survived an assassination attempt in Tagum City Monday afternoon. According to initial reports, armed…