An interior village in Monkayo, Compostela Valley, expressed fear over operation of the Army’s 25th Infantry Battalion in the community, following alleged targeting of its residents in anti-Communist patrols.
President Rodrigo Duterte said that he is willing to raise the issue of the Filipino comfort women with the Japanese government when he gets the chance. However, the President said that he is going to be careful so as not to get an “outright rebuke”.
The group of surviving sexual slaves during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines will be seeking an audience with President Rodrigo Duterte over the issue of Filipina “comfort women”.
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez visited the temporary shelter of indigenous people’s evacuees inside the United Church of Christ in the Philippines Haran compound in Father Selga street, Davao City on Friday afternoon, August 5.
The father of Makinit Gayuran, who was killed in a wedding celebration last Saturday, July 30, hopes for the suspected killers to be caught.
Senator Leila De Lima said the “do-it- yourself justice” system under the Duterte administration’s war against illegal drugs has resulted to the spate of extrajudicial killings and summary executions in the country.
Witnesses of the shooting incident in Sitio Tibugawan, Barangay Kawayan, San Fernando, Bukidnon recalled how ‘scary’ the incident was last Saturday, July 30.
A pregnant Lumad woman died while seven other individuals, five of whom are minors, were wounded after an alleged member of a paramilitary group indiscriminately fired at a crowd gathered for a wedding Saturday morning.
A Lumad school administrator accuse the Army of sending intelligence agents to harass him by “visiting” him and his family.
Almost a hundred mothers and young children attended the nutrition fair organized by the National Nutrition Council in a mall here on Wednesday, July 27 in the bid of mothers to get free vaccination for their infants.
