The New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao took a police officer and declared it as ‘prisoner of war.’
“The rightist in the cabinet is making a United States lackey out of President Rodrigo Duterte,” was how Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao described the recent foreign intervention of the US in the Marawi siege.
The role of the United States Special Forces in Marawi fighting is not a big deal, a military official here said Tuesday.
Police officers and civilians trapped for 22 days inside the center of the embattled city of Marawi were rescued early morning Tuesday.
The families of fallen soldiers Private First Class Freddie Delos Santos and Corporal Casidy Uday will be receiving cash assistance, and will be spared the wake and burial expenses, said City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on Monday.
A kid trapped somewhere inside the city of Marawi died of hunger recently, the spokesperson of the provincial government crisis committee operational center said Monday.
The University of the Philippines Mindanao Student Council appealed to the UP administration and the local officials in the city to reject the proposal of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to build a camp for the Reserved Officer Training Corps (ROTC) inside the campus.
A group of community educators slammed the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the paramilitary group Alamara for conducting series of attacks against Lumad schools in Davao region.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Mindanao said the declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao fits into the “imperialist strategy of the US to gain domination in Asia and the Pacific.”
The peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas said the country will only gain war, not freedom and independence as the US continue to step on the Philippines’national sovereignty.
