DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 Nov) — Lumad leaders will not oppose the signing of a peace agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front but stressed they should be included in the negotiations to determine the territories included in the Bangsamoro Homeland, Datu Joel Unad, chair of the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Conference on Peace and Development (MIPCPD), said.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) urges the Philippine National Police (PNP) to stop treating journalists who covered the failed Magdalo uprising as enemies of the state.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 Nov) – Energy secretary Angelo Reyes, former Defense and Environment Secretary, wants sectoral representation for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in Congress. Reyes said the Lumads need to be empowered because they are the most neglected.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/29 Nov) — The North Cotabato Provincial Peace and Order Council has ordered malls and other business entities in the province to install security cameras in their establishments.
ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews/29 Nov) — Col. Danilo Garcia, commander of the 601st Infantry Battalion based in nearby Tacurong City, stood out among those in the presidential table at the entrance of the palatial provincial capitol here.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/Nov 29) – Some 30 volunteers of the Citizens Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reforms (CARE), a Cotabato-City based poll watchdog, completed over the weekend a three-day assessment of the October 29 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 November) — A website launched Thursday by the Magdalo group of soldiers in time for their takeover of the Manila Peninsula Hotel
in Makati City right after their prominent leaders, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, walked out of their hearing on coup charges, posed a challenge to Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Hermogenes Esperon to tell the truth behind the "Hello, Garci" scandal that has continued to cast doubts on the legitimacy of the Arroyo presidency.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 Nov) — As Senator Antonio Trillanes' group continued to hold out inside the Manila Peninsula, military officials in Mindanao said their troops were all accounted for.
