Extrajudicial Killings

Remembering Celso Pojas


Slain peasant leader Celso Pojas is revered by poor folk.

By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today

On that early morning of May 15 this year, Celso Pojas, 45, was sipping a cup of coffee inside the Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas (KMP) office in Bugac, Maa when he got up, told a colleague he had to buy few cigarette sticks and went outside. Nobody had an inkling it was to be their last time to talk to him. As the secretary- general of Farmers's Association of Davao City (FADC), Pojas was preparing to go to Compostela town as part of the support groups to attend to hundreds of Lumads, who were fleeing their homes in Monkayo and Compostela because of military operations there.

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The irony and tragedy that is General Esperon

Commentary | Esperon's appointment as peace adviser is so contemptible it insults the common sense. What credibility, for example, does the ?Hello, Garci? general have in talking about the substantive agenda in the peace process such as socio-political, economic, and electoral reforms?

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Diarog murder: Duterte denies helping Quiboloy

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today

Davao city Mayor Rodrigo Duterte was furious over rumors that he is protecting Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the leader of the religious sect Jesus Christ: A Name Above Every Name, who has been dragged into the murder of tribal leader Dominador Diarog.

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