Read more about the article NPA calls for cessation of AFP operations to release POWs in Bukidnon
Communist guerillas sing the Internationale during the NPA anniversary celebration last March in Compostela Valley province. (davaotoday.com file photo by Ace R. Morandante)

NPA calls for cessation of AFP operations to release POWs in Bukidnon

“NPA will immediately declare its own suspension of offensive operations with the same duration and scope as soon as the GPH declares its SOMO and SOPO.”

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Death of 3 in Kapalong 10 years ago forgotten but killers now hailed as heroes–lumads

Ten years ago, three persons were killed and five were wounded in a massacre inside a Manobo community in Kapalong, Davao del Norte.

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Read more about the article Rights group slams abuses in Davnor town
Datu Suminggil, a Manabo lumad (indigenous people) leader in Barangay Gupitan, Kapalong, Davao del Norte, calls for pullout of Army troops from their area.

Rights group slams abuses in Davnor town

Human rights group Karapatan lambasted a military general for “sowing Palparan-style terror” in Kapalong town.

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Read more about the article (Update) Arrested IP leader says he is “not in hiding, not guilty”
STOP LARGE-SCALE MINING. Tribal leader Genasque Enriquez, Katribu Party-list’s second nominee, calls on the Aquino government to stop the continued intrusion of foreign and large-scale mining companies to the indigenous peoples’ ancestral lands in Mindanao in a protest Saturday outside the Camp Crame in Quezon City. (davaotoday.com photo by Alex D. Lopez)

(Update) Arrested IP leader says he is “not in hiding, not guilty”

A leader of an indigenous people’s group arrested by government agents earlier today said he was “never in hiding” and that he is not “guilty” of the charges filed against him.

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