By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Bariquit Compound residents are happy that the four youths who were arrested by the police in last Friday’s demolition attempt are now free and can now join them again.
By RON C. CLARION and MARIA LUZ M. GELDORE
Davao Today
What they said they could not understand about last Friday’s incident was that aside from getting beaten up by the police, they were also electrocuted and held at gunpoint.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Sheena Duazo of Bagong Alyansang Makababayan points out that once the government enters into a commercial relationship with a private entity, there will be no guarantee for transparency and accountability
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
The Moro human rights group Kawagib released a statement that pinned the military for strafing at the evacuation center last Tuesday night that led to the killing of the girl named Asmayra Usman, and the wounding of her father Arsad Mujahed.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
The missioners have come this far, but being with the people that the late priest served is worth all the long and difficult travel. After all, to them, it is a way of paying tribute to the man and the work he did as Christ’s follower, which is to fulfill Christ’s teachings of helping the poor and the underserved.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
With the killing of paramilitary leaders in Arakan Valley, the harassment against lumad leaders have intensified, and worst, they are carried out in the guise of pangayaw. For tribal leader Sergio Lumunday, such pangayaw is bereft of its true sense, which is done to defend the community when all other peaceful means have failed.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“Ours was a prenda-arendo contract and we have agreed to plant organic rice only. Now, why are they forcing us to plant bananas?”– Gil Piquero, Chairperson of Kahugpungan sa mga Mag-uuma sa San Isidro
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“They insisted we are NPAs because we live in the mountains. But I told them that we lumads don’t live in urban areas, rather in the hinterlands because it is where we get our source of living” — Datu Tinoy Noa
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
The Mindanao Lumad Alliance, Kalumaran, urges Aquino to “put an end to the killings, abuses, and military recruitment of Lumad paramilitaries in our communities that failed to bring peace and development” as it called to “stop this deception that mines, dams, and agribusiness will bring in development.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Data from the provincial Department of Social Welfare and Development reveals that 309 families or 1,108 individuals fled and are now seeking temporary refuge in the different evacuation sites in Batulawan village and in Poblacion Pikit.
