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By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Lumads belonging to the Mindanao-wide indigenous peoples� group Kalumaran claim they�re being recruited to fight the NPAs against their will. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
Lumads are made to fight against each other so that big mining companies and plantations can come in and take control of the ancestral domain, said Norma Capuyan, Kalumaran vice chairperson.
Dulphing Ogan, secretary-general of the indigenous peoples� group Kalumaran, said that militarization remains to be the greatest problem facing the lumads, who are also fast losing their ancestral lands to big mining and plantation companies without their consent.
�In other places, a mining firm operates but there are no plantations,� he said, �But in all places, the military presence brings about widespread fear.�Read on.
By GRACE S. UDDIN and GERMELINA LACORTE | Davao Today
The daughter of the captive New People�s Army leader Regenaldo Alicaba, Sr. alias Ka Emong said her father could have been tortured during the early part of their ordeal in the hands of the armed men who took them away from their house in Panabo at half past midnight of January 18.
His ears, his knees and feet were swollen, recalled Rizalyn Manguilimotan, 28, when he saw his father for the first time at the Eastern Mindanao Command�s headquarters on Camp Panacan.Read on.
By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA)
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
The �dissenting opinions are valuable because, for once, significant parts of an institution of this country, the Supreme Court, exposed the narrative of inequality between the contracting parties of the Visiting Forces Agreement.Read on.
George �Ka Oris� Madlos, the Mindanao spokesperson of the National Democratic Front.(davaotoday.com photo)
By Grace S. Uddin
Davao Today
Communists in Mindanao say the deep economic crisis of capitalist countries like the US is a �favorable opportunity� to strengthen the Communist Party and to raise the people’s struggle to a �higher level.�
By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance | Davao Today
With all remaining options including attempts at another Cha-Cha diminishing the whole nation should brace for some extreme measures being resorted to in 2009.
