A week before President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his second State of the Nation Address, negotiators were engaged on a table battle to discuss reforms which would hopefully end the armed conflict.
The death toll on government side has climbed to more than 100 as government armed ?f?orces ?continued to ?battle with the fighters of the Islamic State-linked Maute Group, which entered its 63rd day on Monday. ?The government military said it already sustained 109 soldiers who died since the Maute Group mounted its attack on Marawi City May 23.
Instead of listening to military generals whom they perceived of having no idea ?of their real situation, Lumad leaders and students from Mindanao appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to come and listen to their stories and pleas.
The Lanao del Sur Provincial Crisis Management Committee buried on Monday, July 24, the 27 sets of human bones, inside the Maqbara Public Cemetery in Barangay Papandayan Caniogan, here.
A teachers' partylist called on President Rodrigo Duterte to retract his statement saying he will order the Army and Air Force to bomb Lumad schools allegedly teaching subersvion and communism.