By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
Clad in their traditional garb as they joined some 5,000 people from the different towns of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental, they asked, where is the government? And where is its promise of genuine relief and rehabilitation?
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
For human rights lawyer Edre Olalia of the National Union of Peoples Lawyers, Bautista’s appointment “fits in perfectly like a velvet glove on an iron fist. It jibes with the overall anti-people design that has resulted in continuing and disturbing human rights violations.”
“We survived in the sea by drinking rainwater,” Muldayah, one of the survivors DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Five Filipinos were…
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Carlos Isagani Zarate, former president of IBP Davao Chapter, in a press briefing said IBP was born 40 years ago in the country’s critical period during Martial Law declared by the late president Ferdinand Marcos.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Sobbing while delivering his speech under the late morning sun, Datu Matunao of the Matigasalog tribe in Sitio Bermuda, Mangayon village in Compostela town said, “Mag-unsa na lang mi? Among mga kayutaaan na-bar down na. Ang kabukiran nanga-opaw na tungod sa pagpangawkaw sa mga dagkong kompanya sa logging (What will happen to us now? Our lands have been destroyed, our mountains denuded by these big logging companies).”
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
“Mahuman na ang ceasefire. Mahadlok mi kung musubsob ang operation sa military batok NPA.” — Juan, a resident of Sitio Kidale, Tambobong village
By MICK M. BASA
Davao Todayy
Indonesia has earlier donated 40 tons (40,000 Kg) of foods, blankets and medicines and a USD 1 million (PHP 40.63 million) grant to the Philippine government last December while renewing its joint military cooperation to pin down transnational terrorist groups.
By IRENE V. DAGUDOG
Davao Today
“The protests will be borderless, in the sense that netizens from all over the country, and all over the world, will be joining in one way or another. It will be a day for the aggressive exercise of free speech” — Renato Reyes, secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
In the December Swat operations, authorities said they recovered from her bag a “high-powered initiator container with a switch.” But Lee denied the accusation.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“Abolishing the PCGG would mean stopping the investigation against the Marcoses. Won’t this take precedence? That those who are in power will commit crimes with impunity because they can just get away with it?” – Fe Salino of the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon
