By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“We demand that they admit to the crime; they should be punished for the loss of lives of the innocent civilians in the massacre”– Pastor Sadrach Sabella, secretary-general of Karapatan-Socsksargends
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Indigenous peoples’ activists cited 27 cases of extra-judicial killing have occurred under the present administration.
By PAUL RANDY P. GUMANAO
Davao Today
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines ‘corporal’ or ‘physical’ punishment as any punishment that makes use of physical force to cause pain or discomfort. Unicef goes on to say that corporal punishment usually involves hitting, for example, slapping or spanking children with the hand or with an implement. The CRC views corporal punishment as invariably degrading.
By KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA
Davao Today
She was not simply the wife of an indigenous anti-mining activist. Juvy Capion, the woman killed in what is now called the Tampakan massacre, was a farmer, mother of four, and leader of the Blaan community.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Bishop Melzar Labuntog said UCCP leaders and workers join with the indigenous peoples in their struggle for their ancestral lands, the protection of the environment and uphold human rights. “We dedicate these candles to them who died defending their rights,” Bishop Nabuntog said at the caravan’s kick-off ceremony at Freedom Park in Davao City, Monday.
By WARREN CAHAYAG
Davao Today
They are demanding the military to account for such “act of barbarity”, saying that relieving the perpetrators is not enough but the pull-out of these troops “who have become attack dogs against lumads who are only defending their land from being turned into ugly mine sites.”
By RG PALUA GUMANAO
Davao Today
April Grace Mirasol observes that justice for Fr. Pops seems elusive, but she cannot understand why the investigators are yet unable to find all the perpetrators that she believes are not unknown to the authorities.
By Danilda L. Fusilero
DAVAO TODAY
The notorious rape of one university student involving the kin of influencial Montawal clan in adjacent Datu Montawal municipality in Maguindanao also took place in one lodging house in Kabacan in 2008.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
The Philippine Senate ratified on Tuesday a bicameral report on The Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012. If enacted, it would make the Philippines the first country in Asia to criminalize enforced disappearances.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Karapatan-Socsksargends, however, said Bravo was lying. What happened, he said, was an attack by Philippine Army troops against hapless lumads who are opposed to the operation of foreign and large-scale mining SMI-Xstrata, in their ancestral land.
