DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – Norberto Manero, Jr., leader of the group that killed Italian priest Tullio Favali on April 11, 1985, affixed his signature to a five-page agreement with the Diocese of Kidapawan on February 3, 2005 where he “seriously committed to do and perform” nine things to make him “an instrument for the attainment of lasting peace and conciliation.”
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – The National Democratic Front has rejected the demand aired by high officials of the Arroyo administration that the resumption of peace talks between the government and the rebel group should be preconditioned on the surrender of the New People’s Army.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / January 25) —The Sangguniang Panlungsod here will invite Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco and two top-ranking police officers to its regular session next week to shed light on the issue of payoff to the Al Khobar extortion group.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / January 25) — Acting Mayor Sara Duterte turned down the appeal of storeowners to operate again soon to punish them for allowing students to smoke and drink liquor despite a city ban.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / January 25) – Sagittarius Mines, Incorporated (SMI) announced Friday that it has hired the services of Catena Security, part of a network of leading provider of security guards.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / January 25) – The past few months and recent weeks
have never been good for the senses. Not that the average Filipino is about to lose them. It is that this government has lost not only political sense but common sense as well in decision after decision that has defied the unwritten yet primary ingredient of good governance: decency.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez today signed a resolution ordering the release from the national penitentiary, of Norberto Manero, Jr., leader of the paramilitary group that killed Italian priest Tullio Favali in Tulunan, North Cotabato on April 11, 1985.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – “In a small and lonely sitio known as Crossing Kilometer 125, Barangay La Esperanza, Municipality of Tulunan, Province of Cotabato, Philippines, on April 11, 1985, the stillness of the place was shattered by a series of unusual closely related incidents which resulted to the filing” of Criminal Case 1881 for murder, Criminal Case 1883 for arson and Criminal Case 1884 for attempted murder.
So started the 45-page decision by Judge Benjamin Estanol who sentenced the accused to the maximum penalty of life imprisonment because the 1987 Constitution, ratified in February that year, had suspended the death penalty.
(Note from MindaNews: This chronology was first published in MISSSA* Monitor, March-April 1985 issue).
Oct. 11, 1979
Bishop Arliss together with all the priests of the Prelature of Marbel wrote Pres. Marcos about the Mamalumpong case, copy furnished to Ministers Juan Ponce Enrile, Deputy Minister Carmelo Barbero, Major Gen. Fidel Ramos and Justice Minister Ricardo Puno.
Thereafter, the Church-Military Liaison Committee (CMLC) took up the case.
