A Manila-based group of journalists condemned the red-tagging and sexual harassment of a reporter by one of the lawyers in the case involving retired Army General Jovito Palparan related to the disappearance of two UP students.
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.
Two members of the Army and an identified member of the Magahat-Bagani paramilitary group were accosted for taking footages of the funeral of massacre victims in Surigao del Sur on Sunday.
Despite being called “the most vulnerable of sectors,” Lumad women chose to be at the forefront in the defense of their ancestral land.
Children of victims of paramilitary killings in Surigao town urged President Benigno Aquino III to end the killings of indigenous peoples or Lumads.
Yosie, wife of Emerito Samarca who was killed by members of the militia group Magahat Bagani Force, said he was a good man who did not have enemies.
DAVAO CITY – Convenors and delegates of the Barug Katungod Mindanao Conference in Cagayan de Oro City Saturday apprehended an…
A tribal leader worries over the pronouncement of a congresswoman that she will create a measure to recognize and regulate indigenous defense system in the country.
The military is quick to insist that it was an “encounter” with members of the New People’s Army, while the family cries “massacre” over the death of five Lumad individuals in Sitio Mandum, Barangay Mendis, Pangantucan Bukidnon.
An organization from Belgium has expressed its concern on the killings of Lumads in Mindanao and expected the government to investigate the involvement of soldiers in the killings.
