By DAVAO TODAY
The NPA warned it will continue to inflict blows against the AFP, PNP and paramilitary groups; detain POWs and “fortify people’s defense against the onslaught of the rabid Oplan Bayanihan.”
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By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
The arrest and detention of Pansoy as “prisoner of war” and the confiscation of firearms, Ibarra noted, is a warning not just against Uy and his party mates, but to all candidates who are armed for they will be targets of the NPA “to protect the people” and to defend their territories.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
Romulo Serot and his son Remly, volunteers of the DSWD’s cash-for-work program after they lost their house, were surprised to learn that they received an amount lower than what the department’s liquidation report posted. What appalled them more was someone else signed the job orders for them.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Sobbing while delivering his speech under the late morning sun, Datu Matunao of the Matigasalog tribe in Sitio Bermuda, Mangayon village in Compostela town said, “Mag-unsa na lang mi? Among mga kayutaaan na-bar down na. Ang kabukiran nanga-opaw na tungod sa pagpangawkaw sa mga dagkong kompanya sa logging (What will happen to us now? Our lands have been destroyed, our mountains denuded by these big logging companies).”
The victims of typhoon Pablo whose houses were partially, if not totally, damaged need materials for repairs and rebuilding such…
Small-scale miners and peasants in this town have been up in arms against the no-habitation policy, saying it displaced and deprived them of their livelihood. They reckoned, the move is in favor of big and foreign mining capitalists.
DISCUSSION. A liaison officer from the local government discusses with the leader of the small-scale miners the mechanics of distributing…
SEARCHING. Small-scale miners try to remove debris and mound of soil that swallowed 50 bunkhouses, hoping to retrieve…
WAITING. Small-scale miners wait for the advice to continue the retrieval operation. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel Hernani)
MORE BODIES. In the morning of January 7, three dead bodies were found, right before the retrieval operation was stopped…
