CHILD-FRIENDLY? Children sleeping soundly along the alley near a mall in Davao city while waiting for passersby to drop a few coins onto their plastic cups. Davao has been cited among the country's most child friendly cities several times in the past. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
CONFRONTATION. Davao city human rights workers and members of peoples groups troop to New Bataan, Compostela Valley province to protest against militarization. Protesters blamed the military for the rampant extra-judicial killings in the area and called on soldiers to respect human rights and the International Humanitarian Law. They also asked the military to surface the three members of the New Peoples Army recently captured. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
WANTED. A poster showing the faces of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) commanders Ameril Ombra Kato and Abdullah Macapaar alias Bravo and offering prize money for their capture, is displayed in this passenger jeepney plying the Maa to downtown Davao route. Kato, who heads the MILF 105th Base Command; and Bravo, who heads the MILF 102nd Base Command, led the fighting in Maguindanao and Lanao del Norte after the failed signing of the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain between the government and the Moro rebel group in August. (davaotoday.com photo by CJ Kuizon)
DECEPTIVE CALM. A stark contrast against the decrepit shacks surrounding it, this elegant mosque along the banks of Lake Lanao witnessed the exchange of gunfire between government troops and the Moro rebels after the botched signing of the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) in August. The MOA would have led to a peace pact between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)