LUMADS TARGETTED. Isidro Indao, Spokesperson of the Lumad group Pasaka-Southern Mindanao Region with Manobo leader Datu Doloman Dawsay appealed for the “pull-out” of Army troops from the Manobo communities of Talaingod, Davao del Norte. The Lumad leaders alleged that the Army has been “committing human rights violations and acting as a clearing force in order for logging and mining operations to enter their communities.” (Medel Hernani/davaotoday.com)
A Manobo tribal leader in Davao Del Norte claimed that new troops sent near their village threatened both men and women and scared schoolchildren as they accused the village of harboring New People’s Army guerrillas.
By KAI A. ROSELLO & MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
By CJ KUIZON
Kabiba fears that increased deployment of soldiers in the region by the 10th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army based in Camp Panacan will drive up the number of child victims of human rights violations.
The Bangsamoro’s age-old problem had something to do with self-governance. The Bangsamoro people, who used to be under the rule of a Sultanate, lost their self- governance when Spain included Mindanao in the sale of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1898, despite the fact that Spain never really conquered Mindanao as part of the colony.
Villagers said soldiers mauled and illegally detained three men from Simulao for two days and tied them to a tree. They also allegedly robbed a civilian’s motorcycle and destroyed several properties in Barangay Caatihan. In the hinterlands of Tubungan, in Barangay Caatihan of Boston town, soldiers stopped and confiscated three sacks of rice that two men bought from Boston upon suspicion that these are supply for Communist rebels.
SPECIAL REPORT Despite efforts by the country’s call center companies to glamorize the industry, call center agents are resigning, job-hopping, transferring or being fired by the hundreds as fast as they are being hired. That image of a “successful call center executive making it in the business world is lost to these call center agents who are just too glad to quit the industry.
Addressing the impact of the lowering peso value requires more than the mitigating measures government has so far implemented, including the hedge fund set up by the DBP, and Malacaangs fiscal stimulus program.
Reverend Fr. John Yuji Kanzaki, chair of the Philippine committee of the National Christian Churches of Japan (NCCJ), remembers growing up in Japan, where he used to love bananas as a boy. Bananas are expensive in Japan, he tells reporters here, When I was a boy, I cant stop eating them. But a recent visit in banana plantations in Compostela Valley made him change his mind.
Datu Guibang Apoga, the chieftain of the Ata-Manobo tribe in the hinterlands of Talaingod, has been in hiding for a decade now.
