Duterte ends truce with Reds

Inquirer.net, Nestle L. Semilla 02/03/2017

  MLANG, North Cotabato — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday asked soldiers to “go back to your camp, clean your rifle and be ready to fight” as he said he was terminating the government’s unilateral ceasefire with…

CEBU HONORS YOU

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/29/2016

It will be a different way of remembering Gat Andres Bonifacio as seven Cebuanos will be honored today as heroes and martyrs of the martial law regime at the Plaza Independencia. In an event organized by the…

Peace talks moving

Izobelle T. Pulgo 10/31/2016

Three issues to be tackled in 3rd round negotiations with gov’t and CPP-NPA-NDF The Philippine government and the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) will tackle three contentious issues in the third round…

Court hears habeas petition of suspected NPA rebel

Izobelle T. Pulgo 08/23/2016

A HEARING on the petition for writ of habeas corpus filed in behalf of Amy Pond aka suspected New People’s Army (NPA) member Adelfa Toledo was heard this morning at the sala of acting presiding Judge Marivic…

CIDG nabs NPA member wanted for double murder

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/19/2016

CEBU CITY—An alleged member of New People’s Army (NPA) from Southern Mindanao was arrested on Friday by Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7) in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City to face charges for double murder…

Manipulation

Editorial 08/04/2016

Trust the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front-New People’s Army (CPP-NDF-NPA) to manipulate both President Rodrigo Duterte’s offer of a unilateral ceasefire and the public’s willingness to pursue a lasting peace with their own machinations aimed…

Central Command welcomes ceasefire

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Carmel Loise Matus 07/26/2016

THE Armed Forces Central Command welcomed yesterday President Rodrigo Duterte’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire with the New People’s Army (NPA). “If there are people who are happy with ceasefire and peace talks with communist rebels, that’s…

Duterte call for rebel truce drowns militant protest vs anti – drug killings

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 07/25/2016

Hours before President Rodrigo Duterte’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA) yesterday, militant groups in Cebu staged a march-rally calling for an end to extrajudicial killings. However as the SONA wound up, the estimated 500 people…

A personal history of Martial Law

Radel Paredes 05/07/2016

Crosshatching I was born in the year before Martial Law was declared so my childhood was spent in the shadow of the dictatorship. My father was a young sergeant in the Philippine Constabulary at that time. Marcos…

Tuburan security forces beefed up amid conflicting accounts

Jhunnex Napallacan, Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/06/2016

Tuburan ambush suspect Ludivico Oroquero talks to his wife Imelda at the Tiburan police station. Amid conflicting accounts on the whereabouts of the suspect of an ambush-slay of a Liberal Party (LP) campaigner in the northwestern town…

NPA frees 3 soldiers in Agusan

05/04/2016

SAN LUIS, Agusan del Sur — Communist rebels yesterday afternoon took a surprise move to free three Army soldiers and a militiaman in what was supposed to be an event in a remote village of Balit here…

Soldiers, NPA clash

04/19/2016

DAVAO CITY — Government soldiers on Monday clashed with communist guerrillas who overran an Army camp and took five policemen as captives in a series of attacks in Paquibato District on Sunday. Capt. Roda Leoncito, spokesperson of…

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