By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
The CPP said it abbreviated the ceasefire order to ensure that NPA units and people’s militias “will not be placed in an unduly disadvantaged position” when the AFP supposedly ends its Somo by Wednesday midnight.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“Og ako lang, dugay na ning nahuman. Dugay na kong nisulti (sa mga Komunista) nga pili mo’g cabinet. Ayaw lang ng armed forces, ayaw lang ng BIR (Bureau of Internal Reveneu), DAR (Department of Agrarian Reform) ug DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development),” Duterte said.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Duterte only affirmed what the communist movement has been saying all along: that “imperialist logging, mining and agri-business plantations” exacerbate climate change and hasten the earth’s degradation.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
The ceasefire coverage, Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command said, is extended to other parts of their regional jurisdiction which are not directly hit by typhoon Pablo to help address the said crisis especially in the more than 24 towns in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental where over 33 percent of its “revolutionary forces” live and over a million of peasants, workers, lumads and ordinary poor are affected.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
During the special session of the City Peace and Order Council Monday at the City Hall, Mayor Sara Duterte expressed concern whether authorities manning the checkpoints know how to profile and identify suspected terrorists.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“It will have profound implications for improving the health and lives of women throughout the country,” said Carlos Conde, Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“To say that the NPA ”kidnapped” children who were also victims of Pablo, is indeed, a claim that only the fascist and devious AFP can readily concoct and spin.” — Ka Boyet Makatindog, spokesperson of NPA’s Guerilla Front 34
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
In a statement emailed on Wednesday and dated December 5, Ka Oris, spokesperson of NDFP-Mindanao said the ceasefire order given to the New People’s Army in the typhoon-hit areas is meant to “pave the way for a safe, unhampered and speedy rescue of victims, and to conduct a speedy and unhampered relief operations in the affected communities.”
By MICK M. BASA
Davao Today
Indonesian Consul General to the Philippines, Eko Hartono, said the latest Philippines-Indonesia Military Cooperation (Philindo MC), which is a joint training of the two countries’ air forces, navy and the army is aimed “to fight terrorist groups” known to have been operating in North Sulawesi and Mindanao which are considered a common border to both countries.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
Manobo mother Aisa Pinantao, 23 from Sitio Kalingahon, Noa village said they were forced to evacuate because the military has dropped bombs to their farms, just few meters away from their house. With her three children and other neighbors, they left their homes and livelihood and forced to stay at the village center for safety last December 3.
