Mayor Lorenzo Gawilan, Jr. said he did not approve of a village captain’s move to close the operations of a community school here for indigenous people pupils.
Grade 7 and 8 pupils of Misfi Academy in Sitio Dao, Barangay White Culaman, Kitaotao, Bukidnon sing the national anthem before going to their classes at 7:00 in the morning Thursday. Their school is now threatened to be "closed or burned" by Barangay Captain Felipe Cabugnason because he said the school is built by the New People's Army. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Milagros Maglungsod-Tan, community education program coordinator of MISFI academy files a blotter at the National Police station in Kitaotao town of Bukidnon. She said Barangay Captain Felipe Cabugnason of Barangay White Culaman has been threatening school officials that they would burn down the school for allegedly teaching revolutionary ideas. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Relatives of the victims of the killings in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, turned to the United Nations to seek resolution to the unsolved killings of their kindred in the area.
Around 500 individuals joined the delegation from Davao and North Cotabato for a three-day mercy mission in Barangay White Culaman in Kitaotao, Bukidnon to "give assistance to victims of militarization" in the area.