JOURNEY FOR JUSTICE
Hundreds of Lumads and peasants from Arakan town and Kidapawan City join the protest outside the Davao City’s Garden Oases Resort Friday, the last day of the Commission on Human…
PRIME SUSPECT
Jimmy Ato (facing CHR officials), one of the prime suspects in the killing of Italian priest Fr. Fausto Tentorio, denies any hand on the crime during the last day of…
SLOW GRIND OF JUSTICE
Sympathizers of slain Italian priest Fausto ‘Pops’ Tentorio picket outside the Garden Oases Resort in Davao City where the Commission on Human Rights hold its first three-day public inquiry on…
RECANTATION
Dominador Mantangkil Damlayon (with his back to camera), one of the witnesses presented by Task Force Tentorio in 2012, tells the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Wednesday that he wasn’t…
IN DEBT. Carlos Anacleto shares how lack of government support forced them to go to traders or money-lenders and incur heavy debts. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Farmers lament heavy debts, low incomes
Usurious schemes and failure of the government to support farmers bury them in a vicious debt cycle. Farmers are left fending for themselves.