Thousands flock the San Pedro Cathedral during the Catholic Good Friday mass at the San Pedro Church on Davao City. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A Talaingod Manobo couple perform a dance in the opening of a video forum with Fil-Americans and American church people at the UCCP Haran Compound. The Fil-Ams and Americans visited Talaingod in previous solidarity missions. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
FILING FOR TAXES. Thousands crammed the office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Davao City as the deadline for the filing of tax income draws near at 5 pm of April 15.
FLOWERS, LEI FOR GRADUATION. Vendors squeeze their graduation lei and flowers between grills to a potential customer during the graduation ceremony at the University of Southeastern Philippines Davao City.
FIRE VICTIMS LINE UP. Thousands who had lost their houses to the April 4 fire flocked to the Mini-Forest Gym in Barangay 23-C to receive government assistance of P 10,000 each. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A HOUSE USED TO STAND. Residents along Boulevared had put up markers like these on the lots where they houses used to stand, anticipating that they will return after local officials announced it would rehabilitate the area following the fire that razed over 1,000 houses. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
FREE WATER. Residents who lost their houses to the fire at Quezon Boulevard last April 4 avail of free water at their community at Barangay 23-C to bathe and wash clothes. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Talaingod Manobo children at the UCCP compound in Davao fly kites with calls to stop military operations in their villages written on the kites. The activity was dubbed as “Tabanog sa Kalinaw” and organized by groups supporting the 1,300 Manobos who fled from their militarized villages in Davao del Norte.
FACE OFF. Talaingod Manobo leader Datu Doluman Dausay (left) faced Zandro Tocmo (in white shirt), administrator of Talaingod local government at a dialogue in the evacuation site in UCCP Haran to demand the LGU to call for the pull out of military units from their community. (Daisy Jane M. Apit/davaotoday.com)
ABORTED CLASSES. Teody Mansimuy-at, a Manobo literacy-numeracy teacher in Barangay Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte said they were forced to cancel plans of summer school because of alleged threats and abuses of Army troops present in their communities. Mansimuy-at is one of the 1300 plus Talaingod Manobos, mostly women and children, now in Davao City who fled Talaingod for the safety of Davao City.
