by Davao Today
By DAVAO TODAY
Davao Today
“The military has been committing grave abuses against civilians through its peace and development operations under the Aquino government’s counter-insurgency operational plan Bayanihan.” – Pastor Sadrach Sabella, Karapatan-Socsksargends coordinator
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“Legislators seem to be missing the point. There is a deeper social context why our so-called ‘young offenders’ are being pushed to commit petty-crimes and sometimes used by organized syndicate crimes.” – Arlene Brosas, spokesperon for Akap Bata
By ACE R. MORANDANTE
Davao Today
Human rights lawyer Carlos Zarate, the legal counsel of Tentorio’s case, said “Loloy” is the missing link and has urged the CHR to find him.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today
Gary Martinez, International Chairperson of Migrante says their organization has helped 15 of these OFWs finally return to the country last Saturday, two of them are from Davao City. “They can talk about how they were treated by embassy officials in Riyadh,” he says.
By DAVAO TODAY
Eddie Cañon, 43, a resident of Sitio San Isidro was killed in Nuevo Iloco village. He sustained 13 multiple gunshot wounds in his head and body.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
In a phone interview, Father Cristopher Ablon of rights group Karapatan-Northern Mindanao, confirmed it was Estelita Tacalan whose mug shots were furnished to them by the local media.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Rights activists here can’t simply brush the idea that the newly appointed officer-in-charge of the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division has a hand on this matter. For after all, they claimed, Brigadier General Ricardo Visaya and Palparan “had been working closely in the past and share the same image of being human rights violators.”
By GILBERT L. PACIFICAR
Davao Today
“We should emulate the life of our lumad heroes who died in the struggle for defending the ancestral domain.” — Datu Monico Cayog, Kalumaran chairperson
By GILBERT L. PACIFICAR
Davao Today
The 18 ethno-linguistic tribes of the island together with other support groups have converged to hold the government of Noynoy Aquino accountable for the destruction of the IPs’ ancestral lands and the many cases of rights abuses against the peasant and lumad communities including extrajudicial killings.
