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What we know so far on Toboso 19
DAVAO CITY, Philippines - A probe is sought over the killing of 19 people that included two teens, American solidarity workers and civilians in a military operation in the rural…
Ka Maria Malaya (Photo from 4th ID, Philippine Army)
Ka Maria Malaya remembered as an iron-willed fighter
The CPP paid tribute to Malaya, while grieving for their loss, but saluted "her heroism to persevere in the difficult path of revolution that she trudged throughout her life."
Political detainee, Ariel Arbitrario (left) says they are hopeful that the peace negotiations between the government and the NDF will be successful. Beside him is Eduardo Genelsa, also a political prisoner. They will attend the peace talks in Oslo, Norway on Monday, August 22. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
NDF consultant from Davao summarily executed by soldiers, says CPP
While the military announced that Arbitrario was killed in an encounter with troops, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) claimed Arbitrario was earlier captured, tortured then shot dead.
Photo from 10th Infantry Division's Facebook page
Arrested CPP leader in Davao not ‘a terrorist’, groups and family say
While authorities hailed the arrest of Casilao and labeled him as a "communist terrorist," his lawyers and family decry this tagging.
Hawudon Jomar Bucales, Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative of Lianga town, Surigao del Sur in an interview last September 2015. (Photo courtesy of Froilan Gallardo)
Militia leader, ‘mastermind’ of Lianga massacre killed in NPA ambush
The alleged leader of a paramilitary group in Surigao del Sur tagged in the 2015 Lianga massacre of a Lumad school administrator and two community leaders was among those killed in an ambush staged by the New People’s Army on October 4.