By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today Fr. Geremia said a witness in their custody narrated that former Arakan Police chief Benjamin Rioflorido was the one who accosted the paramilitary troops who were out to assassinate Tentorio on October 15, 2011. The paramilitary troops were said to have a sack of firearms and the military’s Capt. Mark Espiritu was allegedly the one who signed to release the firearms.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today For Davao police chief Dela Rosa, “diskarte na lang.” Loosely translated, this means that officers design creative ways to deal with the different situations especially if they involve minors and children.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today Retired professor Vilma Gonzales of the local Network of Women raised her doubts over the country’s international ranking in gender relations as “sexual abuses, rape, among others still abound with most perpetrators go unpunished.”
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today “This will refute the statement of General Bautista of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that Palparan is the last of his kind. In fact many Palparans exists and they have not been prosecuted” -- Bayan Muna Representative Neri Colmenares
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Bayan Intise, spokesperson of Pagkakaisa ng mga Biktima para sa Hustisya in Southern Mindanao, an organization of families of victims of political killings and other human rights violations, said both Alcover and Bello “do not have the right to become part of the investigating body since they themselves are instigators of such atrocities.”