Thousands of farmers and indigenous people from the region put up a barricade outside the Army’s Eastern Mindanao Command here on Friday morning, March 18 to call for the pull out of the military from the communities and schools.
The Commission on Human Rights on Thursday, March 17, said it will be sending a team from Manila to investigate the torture case of an indigenous farmer that was allegedly tortured by the military and militias in Demoloc, Malita, Davao Occidental on February 19.
A farmer and a village official were among the victims of an indiscriminate firing allegedly perpetrated by the military in a village in San Miguel town, Surigao del Sur on March 11.
Militant youth group Anakbayan said they saw nothing wrong about the question posed to presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte by a student of the University of the Philippines Los Baños, who was bullied after the video of the forum on Friday, March 11 went viral.
The Army’s 10th Infantry Division said the soldier and four members of the Special Cafgu Active Auxiliaries (SCAAs) of the 72nd Infantry Battalion are “placed under arrest” for alleged torture of an elderly Tagakulo tribal man in Barangay Demoloc, Malita, Davao Occidental on February 19.
Two weeks after the fire gutted a dormitory and makeshift shelters of Lumad evacuees inside a church compound here, police are yet to release their report that seeks to find out whether the accident was orchestrated, or not.
Loradel thought it was the usual trouble at their workplace: a faulty wiring which their boss can easily put out.
While Jolita Ladica is often seen frequenting Bankerohan, she is not one of those who haggle with vendors over vegetable prices, although her main business at the market is to bring food for her children.
Militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) on Monday, March 7, criticized a labor arbiter’s decision to junk a complaint of some 84 dismissed workers of a Japanese-owned company in Digos City, saying it was done “partially.”
Human rights group Karapatan has made a formal complaint to the United Nations (UN) on the burning of makeshift shelters and a church-owned dormitory which housed at least 700 Lumad evacuees.
