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.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Southern Mindanao denied reports that the evacuation of Lumads in a village in Davao Oriental last week was brought about by the presence of the New People’s Army.
Davao Region, which ranked fifth, posted a rate on teenage fertility higher than the national average of 14 percent.
As hunger rate falls in Metro Manila and Visayas, thousands of Mindanaons suffer hunger as the hunger rate rose from 13 percent to 19 percent in the island.
The Army tags New People’s Army guerillas in the killing of a known anti-Communist tribal leader and his companion on Wednesday, July 6.
The New People’s Army said the body of its member who was killed in Magpet town, North Cotabato was “severely mutilated” citing accounts of the residents.
Progressive groups here called on residents to support their leaders who have warrants of arrest for charges of kidnapping and serious illegal detention of evacuees whom they assisted during an evacuation at a church compound last year.
Three days after news on the killing of a high-ranking Communist leader in Magpet town, Cotabato province broke out, photos of a New People’s Army member seen mutilated with eyes gouged out circulated on Facebook Monday, July 4.
Lumad leaders who sought refuge in a church compound here backed the 15 activists who were issued with arrest warrants for alleged kidnapping and illegal detention of the evacuees.
Thousands of people who marched yesterday here to support the resumption of peace talks braved the hunger and lack of money back home.
