Blog Posts on insurgency

Xmas truce needs OK from higher ups by durianburgdavao on Dec 18, 2011Police and military commanders in the Davao Region are willing to silence their guns in a truce with communist rebels during the Christmas season but need the ceasefire go-signal from police and military top brass. Major General Jorge V. Segovia, com...

PHOTO ESSAY: RAGE AGAINST IMPUNITY! by Davao Today on Dec 1, 2011                                                                       ...

PHOTO ESSAY: Justice for FR. FAUSTO “POPS” TENTORIO! by Davao Today on Nov 9, 2011Read more [...]...

PHOTO ESSAY: Release of Mayor Dano and 2 Escorts by Davao Today on Nov 4, 2011Read more [...]...

Scholars to pursue legacy of Fr. Pops by Davao Today on Nov 4, 2011By Marieta Baste-Hernani and Marilou Aguirre-Tuburan ARAKAN, North Cotabato -- The coffin where the body of Fr. Fausto “Father Pops” Tentorio lay was bedecked with flowers. As the vigil continued day and night, so was the outpouring from ord...

3 camps, in a spirit of camaraderie NPA detainee town mayor Henry Dano recounts 64 days in the hills by Davao Today on Nov 4, 2011By Marilou Aguirre-Tuburan Trento, AGUSAN DEL SUR -- Her voice rising above the soft hum of radio songs, Amelia Dano could not hide her restlessness. Sitting at the front of a four-wheel drive vehicle, Dano waits in trepidation as the 10-vehicle...

Basilan bishop wants GPH-MILF talks to continue despite bloody encounter by durianburgdavao on Oct 21, 2011DURIANBURGDAVAO News Forum For Peace In Mindanao COTABATO CITY, Oct. 21 (PNA) — A Catholic bishop in Mindanao, who has seen armed conflicts regularly happening in his diocese, appealed to the Aquino administration to continue the peace talks wi...

Art on insurgency and freedom by Karl Ramirez | Music, Film, Activism on Oct 11, 2011First published at The Philippine Online Chronicles.

DUTERTE: ‘War not the answer to Mindanao’s woes’ by durianburgdavao on Aug 16, 2011Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday called on the government to open more windows for talking peace with all rebels groups, as fighting erupted anew in Datu Piang and Maguindanao in Centeral Mindanao between the Moro Islamic Liberation Fr...

DUTERTE ADVISES PRESIDENT AQUINO TO TALK PEACE WITH THE OTHER MORO REBEL GROUP by durianburgdavao on Aug 10, 2011by ROGER M. BALANZA What about the MILF? Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has praised President Benigno Aquino for his backdoor approach to talking peace with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), but advised the government should also engaged the Moro...