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Boston villagers recount tales of military abuses

By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today

Villagers said soldiers mauled and illegally detained three men from Simulao for two days and tied them to a tree. They also allegedly robbed a civilian's motorcycle and destroyed several properties in Barangay Caatihan. In the hinterlands of Tubungan, in Barangay Caatihan of Boston town, soldiers stopped and confiscated three sacks of rice that two men bought from Boston upon suspicion that these are supply for Communist rebels.

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Military to blame for children’s suffering in Central Mindanao

An interfaith mission deplores the government's all-out war in Central Mindanao for causing trauma and suffering among hundreds and thousands of children. The National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission (NIHM), which traveled…

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