Ampatuan said that the “global menace of Islamist extremism is one of the ugliest ideological monster of our time”.
A Moro group on Thursday warned that the Bangsamoro law submitted to Congress have compromised the rights of Moro people and has actually restricted rights and powers of proposed Bangsamoro government.
A community-based school run by the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines in Talaingod, Davao del Norte has stopped its operations a day after celebrating their founding anniversary last October 1 due to intensified militarization.
“If only the admin [Aquino administration] pursued the peace process to the CPP-NDFP-NPA, these [human rights violations] will not happen,” Duterte said.
He said that the city will ensure the security of everybody.
“The problem is there are vehicles which are allowed to use public roads, highways and avenues, and there are those which are not allowed, and this includes passenger tricycles,” Duterte said during his weekly program Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa.
The station manager of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) Davao stressed Friday that their continued broadcasting amidst the strike launched by union workers is a way of fulfilling their responsibility to their listeners.
“It was an illegal arrest. No warrant was served to him,” she said.
Striking broadcasters and radio workers here said the management of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) sent out alleged illegal broadcasts since October 3 despite the union strike and appealed to government intervention the continued broadcast from what they claimed was the use of an unlicensed facility.
Lawyers in Manila claimed on Wednesday that the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the United States of America “will never work for the national interest.”
