This documentary tackles the ordeal of the evacuees in the context of the repeated armed conflicts in Central Mindanao, their rights under the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the financial cost of war and its impact on public funds
ZAPANTA VALLEY, Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte (MindaNews/23 June) – Mamanwa “bakwits,” or internally displaced persons, returned to their homes in this hinterland part of Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte last Wednesday, with all the hope that government troops and communist rebels
MAKILALA, North Cotabato (MindaNews/14 June) – At least 212 villagers, mostly women and children, from a remote area in this town evacuated to safer places after elements of the Army’s Sixth Infantry Division Reconnaissance Company (DRC) and New People’s Army
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – Bayan Muna Partylist Rep. Teddy A. Casiño appealed last week to City Mayor Ernesto T. Matugas to assist the Mamanwa evacuees who have been camping for more than two weeks at a private lot in
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/08 June) – Facing pressure from some residents, City Mayor Ernesto Matugas assured that Mamanwas who fled their homes in a village in Kitcharao town, Agusan del Norte would only be staying temporarily in an evacuation site here.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/07 May) — Assistance to internally displaced persons, or bakwits, due to the armed conflict between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has reached a staggering P1.2 billion, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/14 February) — At least 96 families displaced by more than a month of armed fighting between two warring Moro clans in Barangay Nangaan in Kabacan town returned to their homes on Sunday, military reports said. Lt. Col.
KABACAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/10 February) — From the top of a hill, Sittie Tagigaya saw the houses in her village, Barangay Nangaan in Kabacan town, burn as the sound of the gun battle echoed along the Pulangi River last Wednesday. “The smoke was thick across the sky. It was very terrifying,” Tagigaya narrated.
MINDALANO, Salvador, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/22 December) – Two-year old Norhanif was a picture of serenity as he slept in a hammock fashioned out of a malong (multipurpose tube-like clothing) which his twin sister, Norhanifa, was swaying gently. The twins,
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/06 December) — Fill your hunger and ease a child’s empty stomach this holiday season. Eating at Pizza Hut and Taco Bell branches in the country will help feed the children affected by the conflict in Southwestern
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNe ws/05 December) – A land dispute has led to an armed clash between members of the Civilian Volunteers Organization and suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in a barangay in Pikit, North Cotabato, a police official
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 December) – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has announced it will “interpose no objection” to the Philippine government’s request for a three-month extension of the tour of duty of the Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team (IMT) but
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 November) – “War profiteers” taking advantage of relief goods for internally displaced persons (IDPs) face between six and 12 years of imprisonment under House Bill 48 filed by Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez. The proposed
DATU SALIBO, Maguindanao (MindaNews/12 October) - Unmindful of the ankle-deep floodwaters that greeted her arrival at the Pagatin Elementary School, actress KC Concepcion yesterday led a feeding program for children here sponsored by the World Food Program (WFP). “The last
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/21 September) — Internally displaced persons, more popularly known as “bakwits,” will be entitled to a hundred day “guaranteed employment” in a government project every year, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos-Deles told the ARMM Peace
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/03 September) — Displaced families from Barangay Salat in President Roxas, site of the recent armed fighting between warring Moro groups, have refused to return home for fear they might again be caught in the crossfire. Pandita Macalimbol,
