DAVAO CITY – Five members of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA), including a volunteer teacher who was among the “Bakwit 7” arrested in Cebu for alleged kidnapping and trafficking of Lumad minors, were killed in an encounter with military troops in Purok-8, Barangay Andap, New Bataan, Davao de Oro...
State security forces figured in an armed encounter with suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Davao de Oro on Thursday, Feb. 24, killing an alleged volunteer teacher for indigenous people (IP) and four others who were tagged as communist rebels. Chad Booc (Courtesy of Chad Booc's Twitter...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Last February 15, Filipinos woke up to news that the police violently raided the Lumad Bakwit School in Cebu, and arrested seven teachers and students. Resorting to red-tagging, authorities claimed that the students and teachers there had all been “kidnapped” by communist...