When President Rodrigo Duterte declared Marawi City liberated from terrorists’ influence last Tuesday, October 17, reporters covering the crisis in the country's only Islamic city got a glimpse of the face of the destruction inside the battle zone.
Children in Barangay 76-A in Davao City race to scour for wood and metal scraps and other materials they can salvage a day after a fire gutted the community of Muslim Village last Thursday, October 12. (Medel V. Hernani / davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte confers the Legal Award for Outstanding Lawyer in Community and Legal Aid Service to Social and Welfare Undersecretary Luzviminda Ilagan on behalf of her husband, the late Atty. Laurente "Larry" Ilagan, during the First Davao Legal Awards on September 30, 2017. (Malacañang Photo)
As people recall the day when American military bases were kicked out from the Philippines on September 16, 1991, thousands of Lumad and Moro people who joined the Lakbayan of National Minorities protested outside the US Embassy in Manila on September 15 to oppose the increasing US interventions and presence in the country under the Duterte administration.
MANILA, Philippines – More than a thousand Lumad and Moro trooped to the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Monday, September 11, in time with the celebration of Marcos’ 100th birthday.…