PINALAYA NG BAGONG Hukbong Bayan (BHB)-North Eastern Mindanano Region ang 16 na bihag ng digma noong Pebrero 14-19. Sa unang bats, anim na myembro ng CAFGU Active Auxiliary (CAA) ang pinalaya ng BHB-Agusan del Sur noong Pebrero 14 sa Barangay San Juan, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur. Sa ikalawang bats, pinalaya ng BHB noong Pebrero 18 […]
MATAGUMPAY NA SINALAKAY ng Bagong Hukbong Bayan-Bukidnon ang base ng 1st Special Forces Battalion (SFB)-Civilian Active Auxiliary sa Sityo Green Valley, Barangay Dalwangan, Malaybalay City noong Pebrero 14, alas 9:40 ng gabi. Nakumpiska ng BHB mula rito ang anim na armas na kinabibilangan ng tatlong R4 (isa ang may M203 grenade launcher), dalawang M14, isang […]
A people’s conference was launched in Barangay Sugar, not a real name of a barangay in the Caraga region, to establish the barrio revolutionary committee (BRC) last December 2018. The BRC is the basic unit of the people’s democratic government (PDG). Barangay Sugar consists of seven sitios and has a mixed population of 1,000 Lumads […]
If Duterte’s reign was a television show or movie, it would come with an X rating—evil and harmful to children. The regime’s attacks against children have been relentless this past weeks and months. This January 30 alone, police and military forces arrested two innocents — a 1- and 2-year old—together with another minor, in a […]
The revolutionary movement, human rights and progressive organizations and broad sectors of the people condemned the killing of Randy Felix Malayao, 49. Malayao was a consultant to the peace negotiations of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. He wast shot twice while asleep in a bus on pitstop in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya last January […]
The coconut industry is important to the country’s agricultural sector. At present, almost 26% of all farmlands are planted with coconut trees, and provide livelihood to around four million coconut farmers. The country’s coconut industry, however, is in a slump. According to reports, the income of 60% of coconut farmers and farm workers are below […]
The US-Duterte regime’s attacks are worsening against the people of Mindanao, especially peasants and national minorities, under martial law. In Northern Mindanao, in particular, cases of extrajudicial killings, illegal arrests and detention, intimidation, harassment, forced surrender and militarization of entire communities have risen. These aim to silence the people’s struggles for land, ancestral land and […]
Four farmers were killed by agents of the US-Duterte regime this past two months, while its attacks and harassments against the church and other sectors critical to state fascism continue unabated. In Surigao del Sur, two Lumad farmers were killed by 36th IB soldiers. This is part of the worsening attacks against the people of […]
CHILD RIGHTS advocates protested in front of the Senate during its hearing of the lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility last February 4. The proposal was earlier approved by the Congress. Prior to this, Gabriela Partylist and Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns launched a series of protests against amendments to the Juvenile Justice and […]
RAFAEL BAYLOSIS (Ka Raffy), NDFP consultant, was ordered released in January 15, almost a year after he was detained, after trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives against him were dropped. He was freed, together with Roque Guillermo Jr., in January 18. According to Presiding Judge Editha Mina Aguba of the Regional Trial […]