5TH CIVIL RELATIONS GROUP CIVIL RELATION SERVICE, AFP Camp Panacan, Davao City March 2, 2008 PRESS STATEMENT More apologies, No…
As you bravely admit your mistake in killing Centing, it is with much hope that you now also know the…
Based on the Interfaith Peace & Mercy Mission Held from February 22-24, 2008 in Sitio Dulyan, Brgy. Palma Gil, Talaingod…
Activists speak out against the Balikatan in Cagayan de Oro City.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today
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A day before the joint U.S.-Philippine Balikatan military exercises, young Moro protesters led a barricade in barangay Sarimanok in Marawi City, which ended up with protesters hurling stones at a passing convoy of vehicles loaded with U.S. soldiers. Not contented, the protesters chased the fleeing Hi-Ace and Toyota vans and hit the car windows with stones. Aida Ibrahim, chair of the Moro youth organization Liga ng Kabataang Moro (LKM) in Marawi said the Moro youth will do everything they can to drive the U.S. troops away.
PHOTO ESSAY From the towns of Baganga, Cateel and Boston in Davao Oriental, more than 200 Mandaya farmers walked the five-kilometer distance from the downtown area of Mati, the province’s capital, to Barangay Dahikan, the seat of legislative power, to criticize the military for the alleged human rights abuses in their villages.
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
After the New People’s Army (NPA) admitted their mistake in the February 2 killing of Davao businessman Vicente Ferrazini, the family of the slain businessman asked the Communist rebels to leave Davao and the entire family in peace.
Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontires – www.rsf.org 13 February 2008 Annual Press Freedom Report 2008 REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS CRITICISES LACK…
Cotabato City- Students from Cotabato City State Polytechnic College (CCSPC) stage a mass walkout to condemn the commercialization of education….
Salupongan believed that their opposition to the Integrated Forestry Management Agreement logging project must have prompted the military to intensify their operation in the area. The lumads have been fighting against the government-backed IFMA for a long time now because it threatens to intrude into their ancestral domain. Your browser may not support display of this image.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ordered no let up against drugs and crime syndicates despite criticisms from international human rights groups and the report by United Nations (UN) rapporteur Philip Alston on extra-judicial killings.
