The Philippine Navy has relieved and placed under investigation one of its officers for allegedly issuing a life-threatening social media post against an executive official of the Kabataan Partylist (PL) group. Raoul Manuel (Courtesy of Raoul Manuel's Twitter account) Raoul Manuel, national...
"Chad is our hero." This was how the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman College of Engineering (COE) described its alumnus who served as a volunteer teacher for the Lumads. (Photo from Chad Booc's Facebook account) Chad Booc graduated cum laude from UP Diliman in 2017 with a degree of...
A supposed intelligence information about the transportation of supplies for communist rebels served as the starting point of a series of encounters between the military and alleged New People’s Army (NPA) rebels that led to the death of five individuals, including Lumad teacher Chad Booc, in...
There was no armed encounter that occurred between the New People’s Army (NPA) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Davao de Oro on Thursday, Feb. 24, which resulted in the death of five alleged communist rebels, including prominent Lumad volunteer teacher Chad Booc. Chad Booc...
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...
