By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today KIDAPAWAN CITY — About 600 farmers belonging to the Arakan Progressive Peasant Organization (APPO) and church people trooped to the municipal gym, January 20, to meet head on the commanding officer and spokesman of the 57th Infantry Battalion (IB) and the 10th Special Forces (SF) of the Philippine Army. The…
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Human rights in Aquino’s ‘righteous path’
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We have a democracy in name but not in fact.” – Manuel Diokno, president of the Free Legal Action Group
Shared lives, shared deaths
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star This week I was in Kidapawan City to attend the wake and funeral of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, the now-famous martyred Italian missionary about whom I wrote last week. I stayed a day longer to visit another wake in Arakan town, Fr. Tentorio’s parish, where…
Another victim killed in Arakan Valley
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Ramon Batoy, 35, was killed a mere three days after Fr. Fausto Tentorio was killed also in Arakan Valley.
Five years passed, impunity still reigns, people still suffer
Press Release October 27, 2011 Five years ago, on October 26, my parents, Federico and Nelly Intise were abducted by armed men believed to be government operatives in General Santos City. Five years had passed now, I still worry, with dim hopes on their whereabouts, or if they’re still alive. This is my recollection while…