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NO TO BOMBING. Lumad leaders, students, teachers and support group from Mindanao, in a press conference at the “Kampuhan” at Mendiola Bridge on Tuesday condemned the threat of President Rodrigo Duterte to bomb lumad schools. (Alex D. Lope/davaotoday.com)

Mr. President lend us your ears – Lumad students

Instead of listening to military generals whom they perceived of having no idea ?of their real situation, Lumad leaders and students from Mindanao appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to come and listen to their stories and pleas.

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Read more about the article Provincial gov’t holds mass burial for remains of 27 Marawi casualties
The provincial government of Lanao del Sur buries on Monday, July 24, the 27 sets of human remains in Maqbar Public Cemetery in Barangay Papandayan Caniogan, Marawi City. (Divina M. Suson)

Provincial gov’t holds mass burial for remains of 27 Marawi casualties

The Lanao del Sur Provincial Crisis Management Committee buried on Monday, July 24, the 27 sets of human bones, inside the Maqbara Public Cemetery in Barangay Papandayan Caniogan, here.

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Read more about the article CPP’s Sison hits back at Duterte: Do not belittle revolutionaries
Communist of the Philippines founding chairman Prof. Jose Maria Sison and President Rodrigo Duterte (davaotoday.com)

CPP’s Sison hits back at Duterte: Do not belittle revolutionaries

President Rodrigo Duterte’s scathing remarks against his former professor, Jose Maria Sison, was met with equally strong statement from the founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines on Monday, July 24.

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Read more about the article Soldiers fighting in Marawi get gifts from Oro students
Students from elementary and secondary schools in Cagayan de Oro City take time out to give care packages?,? or "victory boxes"?,? to soldiers fighting in Marawi? City?. The gifts, including love letters, ?a?re turned over by students to the Army's 4th Infantry Division on July 21 and ?a???re transported to the conflict zone in Marawi. (Photo ?courtesy ?of Capt. Joe Patrick Martinez, Department of Public Affairs Office, 4ID)

Soldiers fighting in Marawi get gifts from Oro students

Despite their youth, students from elementary and secondary schools here have understood the meaning of giving one’s life to his country as they took the initiative of giving care packages or “victory boxes” to soldiers fighting armed extremists in Marawi City.

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