A columnist for a local newspaper, whose son is among those charged with kidnapping and serious illegal detention of tribal residents inside a church compound here, appealed to her colleagues in the press to help out in setting the records straight that those accused are not kidnappers.
?The f?a?mily of slain anti-Communist Ata tribal leader Ruben Labawan ?insisted on his innocence to the accusations hurled by the New People’s Army (NPA), who owned responsibility to the killing.
Two teachers of a community school in Paquibato district left their school early in the morning Thursday, July 7 after receiving death threats from the paramilitary group, Alamara.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Southern Mindanao denied reports that the evacuation of Lumads in a village in Davao Oriental last week was brought about by the presence of the New People’s Army.
Davao Region, which ranked fifth, posted a rate on teenage fertility higher than the national average of 14 percent.