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President Rodrigo Duterte graced the 10th year anniversary of the Eastern Mindanao Command on Friday evening, August 26, at the Naval Station Felix Apolinario in Panacan, Davao City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Duterte graced the 10th year anniversary of the Eastern Mindanao Command on Friday evening, August 26, at the Naval Station Felix Apolinario in Panacan, Davao City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Guerrilla fighters of the New People's Army prepare their formation at the start of the ceremony for the release of its two captive police officers in a village in Lupon, Davao Oriental on Friday, August 26, 2016. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Police Chief Inspector Arnold Ongachen, chief of the Governor Generoso Municipal Police in Davao Oriental is released by the New People's Army on Friday, August 26 after almost three months in captivity. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Police Officer 1 Michael Grande of Banaybanay Municipal Police station, who was one of the two prisoners-of-war released by the New People's Army in Davao Oriental on Friday, August 26, marched in between NPA guerrilla fighters during the ceremony. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
Tribal advocates, together with Lumad evacuees who are staying in a church compound ?in Davao City, seek help from the Department of Education to free Amelia Pond, a development worker in a Lumad school in Mindanao. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)