The New People’s Army (NPA) owned up the killing of a Cotabato province security chief on Sunday, February 7, saying it was meant to punish one of those who connived the deaths of several human rights defenders in Mindanao.
The assailant behind the death of an anti-mining activist in Compostela Valley could be motivated by personal grudges, without yet considering the 60-year-old's vocal opposition towards large scale mining in Mindanao, a police report said on Saturday, January 30.
Three days after she was shot by a still unidentified assailant, a 60-year old activist in Compostela Valley died early morning Saturday bringing the number of victims of extrajudicial killings in the region to four in just a month.
Teachers at schools serving indigenous peoples (IP) in remote areas in Mindanao fear for more attacks coming from paramilitary group Alamara as they received a new death threat over the weekend.
A church worker and a farmer who were recently cleared of the ambush of Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona are facing a new set of criminal charges, extending their time in detention, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) said on Monday, January 25.