Mother of missing youth files amparo petition
Davao broadcaster jailed for libel is depressed, thinks of suicide
Silenced and Abandoned. Lex Adonis inside the Ma-a city jail in June. (davaotoday.com photo)
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Gladys Adonis, the wife of jailed Davao Alexander "Lex" Adonis, said her husband has been admitted to the prison hospital in early October. She said Adonis, an anchorman of Bombo Radio-Davao sentenced to four and a half years in prison early this year, had been feeling utterly "abandoned and depressed," and is thinking of ending his life.
Man on the Run. Datu Guibang Apoga, shown here in an interview with Davao Today in the mountains of Talaingod in 2006, promises to keep fighting for his dispossessed people. (davaotoday.com photo)
The fugitive of Talaingod
Datu Guibang Apoga, the chieftain of the Ata-Manobo tribe in the hinterlands of Talaingod, has been in hiding for a decade now.
Muslims in Davao City start their observation of the fasting month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, today. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
In Mindanao, war shatters the Ramadan
The military continued attacking Muslim communities even during the Ramadan, according to human-rights and Moro groups. "When entire communities get displaced by war, how are you going to celebrate Ramadan?" one of them asked. "Ramadan completely loses its meaning. Foremost in your mind, when you're in an evacuation center, is how to survive, where to look for food, or to keep yourself from being harassed, or get hit by a bomb."
Ma-a National HS marks October as children’s month
Davao Teen Center, with the Ma-a National High School Supreme Student Government, celebrates the month of October as Children’s Month despite of the increase of children’s rights violation in the city, particularly the issue of Summary Execution and lacking of reproductive health services to children.
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