VOL. 8 ISSUE 197 • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2015
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HORNPIPE WAR. Two vendors playfully blow their hornpipes into each other’s faces along Ilustre Street yesterday. Hornpipes have replaced firecrackers as Davao City’s noisemaker every New Year’s celebration as the city government banned the use of firecrackers 14 years ago. Lean Daval Jr.
LEGAL AID FOR IP, MILITANTS EDGE By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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HE Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) is now extending legal assistance to the tribal leaders and members of progressive groups who were charged for bringing groups of Indigenous People (IP) to the Haran Compound of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) in Fr. Selga Street, Davao City. In a press briefing yesterday, IBP National president
Rosario Reyes said she promised that the IBP will help in a dialogue during the Manalikabayan last October in Manila. “To the best of our abilities we will extend legal assistance especially for the trumpedup charges, militarization of schools, and extra-judicial killings,” she said. Reyes said it is unfortunate for the IPs that their stay inside Haran has been marred by hearts and uncertainty
over their safety. She said next month the IBP is set to conduct a dialogue with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Human Rights (CHR), and the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) to explain the situation of the IPs in their ancestral domains. She said she will call for a special meeting of all mem-
bers of the IBP Board of Governors to set the timeline for the dialogue in January. “We need to make sure that there will be no miscommunication and we can pinpoint accountability and responsibility,” she said. For his part, IBP Eastern Mindanao governor Caesar Europa said the IBP wants the officials of the AFP to explain why the exodus of IPs from
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