GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/8 Nov) – With exception of few references to reports from Luwaran, the MILF official website, and to statements of top MILF officials, reports in national media had the military, Malacañang, Senate leaders, and Office of the
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/07 November) — The ceasefire committees of the government peace panel (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are meeting with the International Monitoring Team (IMT) here on Wednesday, November 9, to finalize the schedule of the
MASSACRE SITE, Ampatuan, Maguindanao (MindaNews/07 Nov) – Families and friends who will visit the site of the 2009 Ampatuan Massacre for the second anniversary on November 23 will find the three gravesites fenced off, as workers rush to finish construction
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) – A school teacher died while 19 others were injured, many of them in serious condition, when a Forward-type passenger truck reportedly lost its brakes and fell off a steep hill along the highway in President
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) – Zubair Langilan left his home with his family as the call for the noon-time dhuhr, the second of the traditional daily prayers among devoted Muslims, is made in the public address system. Muslims here flocked
A P5 million check the Philippine government gave the Moro Islamic Liberation Front for the Bangsamoro Leadership and Management Institute (BLMI) in August became headline news two months later — specifically a week after the October 18 clash between the military and the MILF in Al-Barka, Basilan –- but with a spin: that the check was given by President Aquino to MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim in Japan; that the amount “may have been used” or “might be used” by the MILF to buy guns and ammunition that would be used against the military; and that the amount was not P5 million but P5 billion.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) – Agriculture officials in South Cotabato are eyeing a surplus of some 26,000 metric tons (MT) for its palay production for the last quarter of the year, the biggest for the period in the last
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) – The Department of Agriculture (DA) is working for the expansion of the Roll On, Roll Off (RoRo) transport system in the coastal municipality of Glan in Sarangani province in a bid to facilitate the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) – The New People’s Army has, in the past three days, been launching offensives within the area of jurisdiction of the Army’s Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom). At 5:30 this morning, Army reports said that 20 armed
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) – Provoking, shooting, blaming each other – that’s playing a dangerous, costly game. The government and Moro rebel armed forces never learn. They had done it many times before. They have just done it again. And many in the country – particularly Manila – cried for blood. Foul! Murder! All-out-war!
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/07 November) – When President Benigno S. Aquino III promised posthaste to give “all-out justice” to the 19 soldiers slain in an encounter with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Al Barka, Basilan, he must have intended it
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) – Irene or Ren is my sister’s household help who I learned comes from North Cotabato. She is 20 years old and a self-confessed tomboy. She giggles when I told her I am going to interview her. “Mura na diay ko inig artista kuya.” (I feel like a movie star.)
