BREAKTIME. A day in the life of an NPA guerrilla in San Agustin, Surigao del Sur on December 29. After January 3, scenes like this will be rare as the mutually-declared ceasefire between government and the National Democratic Front ends.
SAN AGUSTIN, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews/02 January) – “We can stop them 0nly to a certain degree,” Jorge Madlos, spokesperson of the National Democratic Front (NDF) in Mindanao said of the mining firms operating in resource-rich Mindanao, seven of which
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 January) — The Communist New People’s Army said the government has violated the mutually-declared ceasefire with the NPA, with the New Year’s day arrest of their comrade Edwin Brigano in Toril district. Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesperson of
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/02 January) — The New Year’s celebration here was marred by two vehicular accidents on December 31 and January 1 that left 14 persons, including a four-year old boy, injured. Traffic investigator Noel Jaroy told MindaNews Sunday that
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 January) — The prospects for a negotiated peace settlement looked more promising for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) than for the National Democratic Front (NDF) at the start of the Aquino administration on June 30. Five
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 January) — Start the peace talks. Begin at the end. Pre-empt history. It’s easy enough to just demand that the talks begin. But the government has boxed itself into a wee bit of a tight corner by
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/01 January) — I hated school as a kid. Many a morning I’d have to be dragged off, kicking and screaming, to the cursed halls of education and sameness/vagueness where another perfectly good day would wilt like an
