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Benedictine nun held at gunpoint by Army tells their story

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Post published:March 5, 2009
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Benedictine nun held at gunpoint by Army tells their story (This is the statement of Sr. Stella Matutina, of the Benedictine Sisters (OSB) on the incident of how the 67th…

Secret AFP group calls on fellow soldiers to serve the people and abandon GMA

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Secret AFP group calls on fellow soldiers to serve the people and abandon GMA (Statement in reaction to announcement of 10th Infantry "Agila" Division of the Philippine Army of recruitment…

Australia aids RP law enforcement in Mindanao

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Australia aids RP law enforcement in Mindanao Davao City -- The Australian government has provided Philippine law enforcement agencies in Mindanao with new facilities including a bomb data centre and…

NPA asks AFP to surface abducted cadres

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NPA asks AFP to surface abducted cadres The Merardo Arce command-Southern Mindanao regional operations command of the New People's Army (NPA) strongly condemns the abduction of three NPA cadres of…

Mindanao group slams recruitment of lumads to fight the NPAs

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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.

Benedictine nun held at gunpoint by Army tells their story

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Mindanao group slams recruitment of lumads to fight the NPAs

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)

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