Politics

My father was tortured, says Ka Emong?s daughter

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.

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Supreme Court dissenters expose unequal Philippine-U.S. ties

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.

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Ka Oris: Global financial crisis will strengthen Communist Party


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.?

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NPA releases Special Forces army officer as ‘goodwill gesture’


Convenors of Interfaith Movement for Peace and the Release of Cammayo and Tumol (IMPACT) welcome 1Lt. Vicente Cammayo (right) during his release on Jan. 6. Escorted by the New People's Army custodial force and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Cammayo was released in Loreto, Agusan del Sur, after being held as "prisoner of war" for almost two months. According to the Merardo Arce Command of the NPA, Cammayo was the team leader of the 11th company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion of the AFP who surrendered on Nov. 7 last year when his unit was ambushed by the NPA in Monkayo, Compostela Valley. His release, according to the NPA regional command, is a "gesture of goodwill" in celebration of the Communist Party of the Philippines's 40th anniversary. (davaotoday.com photos by Barry Ohaylan)

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