“Now, we can hardly buy rice, we can’t even gather root crops for fear that soldiers might caught us,” — George, a lumad peasant in Magpet By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today MAGPET, North Cotabato — “You’re prohibited to go to your farms within 40 days,” George (not his real name) recounted in the vernacular…
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Military’s False Claims of Child Combatant in North Cotabato and Compostela Valley Endangers Rural Children
NEWS RELEASE 27 March 2010 A nationwide child rights advocacy group lambasted the military’s false claims in news reports that the 15 year old boy they arrested in Makilala, North Cotabato was allegedly aiding the New People’s Army detonate a bomb in Brgy. Old Balatukan, and another girl arrested by the 25th in Moncayo, Compostela…