SLEEP BABY, SLEEP. Racma Jehna tries to put her eight month old grandson, Datu Gumbay, to sleep amid the noise in the Datu Gumbay Elementary School in Datu Piang. Maguindanao. Fleeing home because of the fighting, Racma and her grandson have taken refuge in the school -- their "home" for the past ten months, where her grandson, Datu Gumbay, was born. (MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo)
HOLD. Soldiers guard a nine-van convoy of journalists after stopping them at an army checkpoint in Barangay Bagan, Guindulungan town in Maguindanao Tuesday morning.The journalists were held for nearly an hour. (MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo)
ORPHANED. Dr. Rogelio Pe?era?s daughter says goodbye for the last time. The Davao City epidemiologist was gunned down last week on his way home after fetching her from school. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
Grieving officemates and friends are calling for justice over the doctor's untimely death. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
DAVAO MEDIA AGAINST REPLY BILL. Calling the Right of Reply Bill (RORB) an ?anathema? to press freedom and free expression, Davao media unite to fight the passing of the bill, now on second reading in Congress. NUJP-Davao calls the bill an ?act of terrorism? against the independent Philippine press. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)