DAVAO CITY ? The human rights group Karapatan has condemned the murder of an AnakPawis coordinator and pinned the blame on the state. In a statement, the group also noted what it said was an ?alarming increase? in human-rights violations in Southern Mindanao.
Two months after the fatal shooting of Armando Pace, a hard-hitting radio commentator in Digos City, the case remains in limbo.
By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DIGOS CITY ? He was called the ?Jun Pala? of Digos, a fire-breathing broadcaster who earned another moniker, ?Rakman,? because of the sheer firepower (rak-rak!) of his radio commentaries.
He feared nobody and never hesitated attacking anybody, even sometimes on a personal level. Armando Pace, the 55-year-old broadcaster from AM station DXDS-Radyo Ukay in this city, certainly made many enemies. And just like Pala, he was felled, on July 18, by an assassin?s bullet. He was said to be the first radioman in Digos to have been murdered.
This has been the question nagging me for days now as I follow the story of an anti-terror expert who ran an experiment of bringing explosive materials and who passed through the security personnel of an airline carrier and two major airports in the country, airports that had, in the past five years, survived bombing attacks from ?terrorists.?
The authorities, from airport security to Davao City officials to Malaca?ang, are after the head of Samson Macariola, the anti-terror expert who showed to a journalist his feat of testing the security measures of the airline and the Manila and Davao airports by carrying real explosives and assembling them inside the airplane.
DAVAO CITY ? The authorities said today that they are verifying the reported existence of a new terror group that calls itself "Tanzim Qaidat Al Jihad." Jose Maria Cuerpo II,…
By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — The New People’s Army (NPA) in Southern Mindanao has denied the accusation made by the police that it was behind the murders this week of George and Maricel Vigo, development workers and former journalists in Kidapawan City.
Instead, the NPA pointed to North Cotabato governor Emmanuel Pi?ol and officials of the military as the perpetrators.