UPDATED MAKILALA, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 04 April)- — A trailer truck loaded with bananas was “intentionally burned” by suspected New People’s Army (NPA) along the national highway here Monday night. Police reports reaching Mayor Rudy Caoagdan said unidentified armed
MAKILALA, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 04 April)- — A trailer truck loaded with bananas was “intentionally burned” by suspected New People’s Army (NPA) along the national highway here Monday night. Police reports reaching Mayor Rudy Caoagdan said unidentified armed men
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 03 April) — As government casualties mount, President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday renewed his conditions for the peace talks with the National Democratic Front. Duterte said a document should be signed by the NDF
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 02 April) — The National Democratic Front in Southern Mindanao indicted former President Benigno S. Aquino III, North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, Kidapawan City mayor Joseph Evangelista, North Cotabato Representative Nancy Catamco, among others, for “war
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/01 April) — The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Saturday said it did not issue a declaration of interim ceasefire Friday, after the Philippine government (GRP) announced it will not issue a similar declaration. In a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/31 March) – Expect the New People’s Army to launch attacks even while the peace process is ongoing because the rebels want to “negotiate from a position of strength,” Labor Secretary and concurrent of the government panel in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 March) — The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said it will support the forging of a bilateral ceasefire agreement between the government (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and vowed
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 March) – Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Friday announced that her government is giving the Philippines some A$40 million for the peace efforts in Mindanao and another A$90 million for education development in the Autonomous Region
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 March) – The next rounds of peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines will push through despite recent attacks reportedly staged by the New People’s Army, Labor Secretary and government peace panel chair Silvestre
TALUNTALUNAN, Makilala, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 13 March) — A newly-acquired passenger bus on its second day of plying the Marbel-Tacurong-Davao route was burned by suspected communist rebels at Purok 6 here at around 8:30 a.m. Monday, after asking its
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 March) — The business leaders here said they welcome the revival of the peace negotiations between the government (GRP) and National Democratic Front (NDF) but called on the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 March) — The peace process between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front (NDF) is back on track, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza announced Sunday from Utrecht, The Netherlands, where backchannel
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 March) – The government and the National Democratic Front must resume peace negotiations that have been stalled since early last month after both sides terminated their unilateral ceasefire declarations amid mutal accusations of bad faith, Philippine National
SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN MINDANAO (MindaNews/26 July) – Communist rebels are still willing to continue the peace negotiations with the government even if President Benigno Aquino III failed to say something about it in his third State of the Nation Address
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 June) – The Philippine government (GPH) and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace panels are talking again. The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) announced in a press statement on June
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/10 October) — The government peace panel will meet on Wednesday to discuss calls made for the release of detained National Democratic Front (NDF) peace consultants in light of the latter’s release of its captives in
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) – The demand for the release of the National Democratic Front’s (NDF) detained peace consultants prior to the resumption of formal talks with the government is not “just any precondition” but an “expressed requisite
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/06 September) – The peace panels of government and the National Democratic Front should “exert more effort in ironing out” snags that led to the postponement of talks on the Comprehensive Agreement on Socio-Economic Reforms (Caser),
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/1 September) – The communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) on Wednesday said it has tapped Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as resource person in the ongoing peace talks with the Philippine government even as its chief
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 Apr) – One of the top negotiators of the National Democratic Front (NDF) said the passports granted to three NDF consultants to join the Oslo talks last February were not “gifts” from the government but a compliance
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 April)—The National Democratic Front (NDF) will agree to a truce with the government if President Benigno S. Aquino III signs the 10-point agenda earlier proposed by the rebel alliance to address the root cause of the communist-led
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 April) – Two peace negotiators, one coming from the Philippine government and the other from the National Democratic Front (NDF) yesterday said the prospects for the recently resumed peace talks between the two parties were looking good.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 March) – An official from the Office of Vice President Jejomar Binay appealed to the public not to be swayed by emotions over the spate of attacks staged by the communist New People’s Army (NPA) against security
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 Feb) — Peace advocates in Mindanao hailed the renewed talks between the government and the communist rebels saying the negotiations can become an opportunity to better understand the problems of the peoples in the region. In a
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 Feb) — A militant group here on Monday urged the inclusion of the labor row and land use issues at the fruit giant Dole Philippines, Inc. (Dolefil), in the first formal peace negotiations on February 15
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 January) – His disappointment over the arrest of an alleged New People Army (NPA) leader on New Year’s Day was “nothing personal” but “a question of principle,” Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said. “It’s a question of principle
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 January)—Accusations of harassment and other abuses against civilians and groups suspected of supporting the underground movement greeted the initial deployment of the Army’s so-called peace and development teams implementing the Bayanihan counterinsurgency campaign in Davao del Norte
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/15 January) — The 4th Infantry Division announced it was willing to extend medical assistance to National Democratic Front – Mindanao Spokesperson Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos who has been suffering from a renal ailment. A source
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 January) — The military had nothing to do with the arrest of a New People’s Army rebel in Toril district here at dawn of New Year’s Day, and nor was it a violation of the 19-day ceasefire
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
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 December) — Soldiers also look forward to the resumption of peace talks between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) but it should take place under a ceasefire, the spokesperson of the 10th Infantry Division
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 December) – Civilians will continue to bear the brunt of the armed conflict in Southern Mindanao unless the peace talks between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) will resume, a leader of the partylist
SAN AGUSTIN, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews/27 December) — With barely two kilometers and a hill separating a large column of communist rebels and a platoon of government soldiers, Asia’s longest running insurgency celebrated its 42nd founding anniversary before thousands of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 December) – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today issued a ceasefire order to its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), that will take effect for 19 days starting December 16.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 December) – From December 16 to January 3, 2011 the guns will hopefully be silent, as the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) have agreed to a ceasefire in observance of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 November) — The National Democratic Front (NDF) in Mindanao urged peace advocates in the island to convince the Aquino government not to ”dilly-dally” on the resumption of peace talks with the communist-led rebel group and with the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 October)- Indigenous peoples and civil society groups today called on the Aquino administration to resume the peace talks with the communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) to stop the further displacement of communities affected by hostilities between the
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 September) — The communist-led New People’s Army has branded as pure propaganda claims by the military that it is using landmines that endanger civilians.[] The NPA was responding to statements coming from the military that
