Following Sunday’s violence in SK Pendatun town in Maguindanao that led to the killing of the education district supervisor, the Commission on Elections has put the town under its control, with deputized police officers taking the lead as Board of Election Inspectors.
A grenade was fired towards the polling precinct in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao on Monday morning apparently to scare off voters on Election Day, according to local officials.
Unidentified men on Wednesday night set afire the provincial headquarters of President Benigno Aquino III’s Liberal Party in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao but no casulaty was reported, the police said Thursday.
Outrage from varied groups continues to snowball over the government’s issuance of an environmental compliance certificate (ECC) to mining giant Xstrata’s Sagittarius Mines Inc.
Unidentified men on Wednesday killed at least four members of a family, including a pastor, in an ambush in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat, the police said Thursday.
Eid Kabalu, a former spokesman for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), believes the Sulu sultan’s insistence on reclaiming Sabah is part of a plot to derail the peace process between the government and the rebel group.
South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Pingoy Jr. on Wednesday downplayed the issuance of an environmental compliance certificate (ECC) to mining giant Xstrata’s Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI), saying the provincial government ban on open-pit mining stays.
Lolong, the world’s biggest reptile in captivity, is dead.
The death toll in the fighting between Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) forces and Abu Sayyaf bandits in Patikul, Sulu, has reached 20, a police official said Monday.
The government is optimistic that the final peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front will be signed by March, government peace panel head Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said Saturday.
Two rival Moro factions embroiled in a land conflict clashed in Central Mindanao on Tuesday, leaving four combatants killed and six others wounded, and driving hundreds of other people out of their village.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front forces have been told not to carry firearms especially near town centers in deference to the gun ban the Commission on Elections has imposed, a senior rebel official said Tuesday.
Three years after the Maguindanao massacre, fear still stalks surviving relatives of the 58 people slaughtered in the worst political violence in the nation’s history.
