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IN PHOTOS: Ampatuan massacre eight years later

Families, including colleagues of the 58 killed in the Ampatuan massacre at Sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman, Ampatuan, Maguindanao, were here on Sunday, November 19, to commemorate the single deadliest election-related violence in the history of the Philippines.

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Read more about the article DepEd says schools are ‘zones of peace’ despite reported attacks
Lumad students, teachers, and support groups led by Save Our Schools rally at the Department of Education’s central office in Pasig City. They ask Education Secretary Leonor Briones to condemn alleged military attacks on their schools spread across Mindanao. (Photo courtesy of Save Our Schools Network)

DepEd says schools are ‘zones of peace’ despite reported attacks

Despite the barrage of criticisms it received, the Department of Education maintains that public schools across the country are “zones of peace” despite groups contradicting such claim.

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Read more about the article ‘Declaring NPAs terrorists a threat to Lumad children’
SAVE SCHOOLS. Lumad students, teachers, and support groups led by Save Our Schools rally at the Department of Education's central office in Pasig City. They ask Education Secretary Leonor Briones to condemn alleged military attacks on their schools spread across Mindanao. (Photo courtesy of Save Our Schools Network)

‘Declaring NPAs terrorists a threat to Lumad children’

President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to declare the New People’s Army as a terrorist group have caused a chilling effect to the Lumad children in Mindanao, progressive groups said.

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