Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said that he was trying to educate North Cotabato Representative Nancy Catamco when he told her that someone should talk to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in order to resolve the issue of the indigenous people (IP) evacuees in the Haran Mission Center compound.
The United Church of Christ in the Philippines criticized a police assault on its compound here on Friday and described it as "disrespectful" of the sanctity of the Church.
Members of Congress' Makabayan bloc condemned as “forcible and violent” the attempts to evict tribal families from a church compound here.
Lumads said that like the Army who allegedly hurt them in their villages, the police also did it to them in the city amid an attempt to force them to go home.
Local officials here intervened in the commotion inside an evacuation camp, which the Davao City Police Office raided on Thursday morning.