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 rescued Saturday after drifting on a raft in Celebes Sea…
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