Mindanao

Relief halts for Maguindanao IDPs after the Ampatuan carnage

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Feb 06, 2010

By GINGGING AVELLANOSA-VALLE
Relief assistance for people displaced by the fighting between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Maguindanao has come to a halt after the massacre that killed 58 people, 32 of them journalists, in the town of Ampatuan on November 23 last year.

Mindanao pilgrims recount tales of injustice

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Jan 20, 2010

They left Davao City bearing meager belongings: a bagful of clothes good for ten days, a lunchbox and a cup. They had to leave their fields, their families for a mission — to bring their woes for land and justice and call the attention of the national government.

‘We have prevailed despite Arroyo’s OBL,’ says Ka Oris

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Jan 13, 2010

By CHERYLL D. FIEL
This coastal town in northeastern Mindanao would have been as humdrum and sleepy as any ordinary day but the red letters on the railing of a bridge along the national highway broke the monotony: “Mabuhay ang ika-41 nga anibersaryo sa Partido Komunista sa Pilipinas! (Long live the 41st anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines).”

FIRST PERSON: Yes, I have sought refuge with revolutionary forces

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Jan 06, 2010

Once hounded by rebellion charges, which, to him were trumped up to silence him; wary of the unabated killing of activists under the Arroyo regime, the former secretary-general of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) finally sought refuge with the Communist New People’s Army and explained his choice.