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Sayyaf-trained Malaysian militant, 2 others arrested

Resting of Ampatuan case premature, massacre fund misused

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Disaster risk reduction summit tagumpay

Killer of radio broadcaster arrested in Bukidnon

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MNLF SOLIDO PA RIN KAY NUR MISUARI

Si MILF chairman Murad Ebrahim and MNLF chairman Muslimin Sema kasama ang iba pang mga lider ng OIC sa Jeddah, Saudi Arabia nitong Hunyo 18, 2014 sa larawang ito na inilabas ng Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process.

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indi kinikilala ng Moro National Liberation Front sa ilalim ni fugitive leader Nur Misuari ang faction ni dating Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema na siyang tumatayong chairman ng MNLF. Maging ang self-pro- Moro Islamic Liberation claimed MNLF chairman Front sa pangunguna ng na si Abul Khayr Alonto lider nitong si Murad na biglang lumitaw sa Ebrahim nitong Hunyo 18 kasagsagan ng peace sa Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Ngunit mistulang talks ng pamahalaang Aquino sa Moro Islamic namamangka naman sa ilog ang Liberation Front ay hindi dalawang rin kinikilala ng grupo ni pamahalaang Aquino Misuari na hanggang dahil pareho nitong ngayon ay siyang kinikilala ang pamunuan tumatayong pinuno ng ni Sema at Alonto.

Ginagamit rin karamihan sa mga miyembro ng MNLF sa diumano ng Office of the Basilan, Sulu at Tawi- Presidential Adviser on the Tawi, gayin rin sa ibang Peace Process sa ilalim ni Sec. Teresita Deles si bahagi ng Mindanao.

Si Sema ay kasama sa Alonto upang buwagin ang pagpupulong ng Organi- impluwensya ni Misuari sa zation of Islamic Coop- hanay ng MNLF. Maging eration (OIC) at ng ang mga ibang lider ng pamahalaang Aquino at MNLF na dating kasama ni

Misuari ay ginagamit rin ng pamahalaan upang tuluyang alisin sa Misuari sa pagiisip ng ibang mga commanders ng dating rebeldeng grupo.

“Wala kaming kinikilalang iba kundi si Chairman Misuari bilang lider ng MNLF. Hindi si Sema o si Alonto at si Maas (Nur Misuari) pa rin ang sinusunod ng lahat ng MNLF,” ani ng isang tagasunod ni MNLF commander Khair Ajibun, na kilalang loyalist ni Misuari sa Sulu province.

Nais naman ng OIC na pag-isahin ang MNLF at MILF upang mapagtibay ang peace agreement ng pamahalaan sa dalawang grupo. Nabatid pa sa OIC na kinontra diumano ng lahat ng paksyon ng MNLF ang Bangsamoro peace

agreement ng pamahalaang Aquino sa MILF na nilagdaan nitong Marso dahil sa September 1996 peace deal ng pamahalaan sa MNLF. “Another conflict area is southern Philippines where the Bangsamoro Muslim people are still struggling to prove their identity and confirm their history and rights. In the light of the agreement signed recently between Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Philippine government under the auspices of Malaysia in the presence and witness of some Member States, and opposed by all factions of Moro National Liberation Front, and the fact that the declared texts of the new agreement do not mention or build explicitly on Tri-

poli and Jakarta Agreements of 1976 and 1997 respectively - being the two conventions which establish the position of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation towards that conflict - the General Secretariat has spared no effort to bring the two fronts together.”

“They actually met a few days ago and reached a memorandum of understanding which we hope will be the basis for bridging the gap between them and establishing a united national front that follows up the implementation of the new agreement and links it to the previous agreements overlooked by the Philippine government.

In this context, the support of the rapprochement of both fronts and legal follow

up of the implementation of the new agreement and the compliance of the Philippine government to its text and soul is unavoidable if we want Bangsamoro Muslim people in the Philippines to obtain their most basic rights,” wika pa ni OIC Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani sa pulong ng Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers.

Si Misuari ay nagtatago pa rin matapos na lumusob sa Zamboanga City noon nakaraang Setyembre ang mga miyembro nito at nagtagal ng halos tatlong lingo ang sagupaan na kung saan ay halos 400 ang nasawi at sugatan.

Mahigit sa 120,000 rin ang apektado ng labanan dito.

(J. Magtanggol)

Gunmen abduct 2 in new Sabah intrusion

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uspected Filipino gunmen seized two people in the town of Kunak in Tawau District in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah, reports said.

The two victims – a Chinese fish breeder Chan Sai Chiun, and an unidentified Filipino worker – were snatched at gunpoint and dragged to a waiting boat that sped off towards the southern Philippine province of Tawi-

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It was not immediately known whether the gunmen were Abu Sayyaf militants or members of a kidnap gang operating in Sabah and southern Philippines.

There were no immediate reports from Philippine authorities about the latest abductions, but it occurred 10 days after suspected Abu Sayyaf militants seized a Chinese fish farm manager Yang Zai Lin in Lahad Datu

town after raiding the Wonderful Terrace.

Last month, the Abu Sayyaf released a kidnapped Chinese tourist, Gao Huayun and Filipina resort worker Marcy Dayawan in Sulu province in exchange for some 2.2 million ringgits or about 300 million pesos paid by Gao’s family.

The duo was kidnapped on April 2 at the Singamata Adventures and Reef Resort in the town of Semporna also in Sabah

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where Dayawan works.

The kidnappers originally demanded 36.4 million ringgit as ransom or an equivalent to almost P500 million for the safe release of the Chinese woman.

Sources in Sulu told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner that a leader of the Moro National Liberation Front, Nameh Sangkula, helped negotiate the release of the hostages in the village of Bawisan in Parang town. It was un-

known who tapped Sangkula to secure the freedom of the hostages.

Then victims were fetched by security forces and handed over to Malaysian officials who were in Jolo town. The freed victims were then whisked to a waiting speedboat that brought them to Sabah.

In November last year, the al-Qaeda linked Abu Sayyaf group also kidnapped a Taiwanese tourist Chang An Wei after killing

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her husband Hsu Li Min in a daring cross-border raid in Sabah’s Pom Pom Island. The woman was eventually released a month later near the village of Liban in Talipao town in Sulu after paying ransom.

The Abu Sayyaf has resorted to ransom kidnappings to raise money for the purchase of weapons and to fund terror attacks in the country.

(Mindanao Examiner)

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Dr. Carlito Robares, chief of the Crop Division of the Zamboanga City Agriculture Office, shows a leaf infected with coconut scale insects, and coconut trees now dead due to infestation in the village of Baluno. (Mindanao Examiner Photo - Ely Dumaboc)

Coconut scale insects invade Zamboanga City THE INVASIVE species of coconut scale insects have already reached Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines and agriculture officials expressed alarm over the infestation that is now threatening fruit trees.

Dr. Carlito Robares, office to prevent the chief of the Crop Division spread of the infestation.

“We are now working of the Zamboanga City Agriculture Office, said the double time here and this infestation has affected is very alarming now bethe village of Baluno after cause the coconut scale the insects attacked not insects have reached only coconut, but other Zamboanga City where fruit trees such as there are many plantaLanzones (Lansium tions not only of coconut, but various fruit trees,” he domesticum).

He said the same spe- told the regional newspacies have wrought havoc per Mindanao Examiner.

The Philippine Cocoin nearby Basilan province, particularly in nut Authority has previIsabela City where more ously warned that the cothan half of its 33 villages conut scale insect infestawhere huge plantations of tion in Basilan may spread coconuts and rubber, and to other areas. It has Lanzones were infected formed an inter-agency with coconut scale insects. task force to address the problem Robares said they are worsening monitoring other villages brought about by the inin Zamboanga City and festation in Basilan, one of has urged farmers and vil- 5 provinces under the lage officials to take imme- Muslim autonomous rediate actions or coordi- gion.

Rudy Corsame, the nate with the agriculture

PCA provincial manager, said the task force involves various government agencies such as the Basilan Agriculture Office, the Coast Guard, the Philippine National Police, the Maritime Industry Authority, Department of Labor and Employment, and the Bureau of Plant Industry, among others.

He said the Task Force CSI (coconut scale insects) will quarantine all plants and seedlings coming to Basilan - one of five provinces under the Muslim autonomous region to ensure that no invasive species of insects such as the coconut scale would be able to enter the island.

Efren Carba, the PCA provincial coconut development manager, said the invasive species of coconut scale have destroyed over 76,000 coconut trees in Isabela City in Basilan alone. He said they are yet to receive funding to control if not eradicate the co-

conut scale infestation in the Basilan.

The same infestation has ravaged the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon – all in Luzon Island and officials were trying to determine how the insects (Aspidiotus Rigidus) managed to find its way to Basilan.

Carba said the infestation of the coconut scale is at the moment within Basilan and there were no reports of attacks on coconut plantations in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces, and also Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga del Norte, all in western

Mindanao.

He said pests attack the leaves and fruits of coconut trees and there were reports that mangoes, bananas ang other fruit trees are also at risk of infestation in Basilan.

He said there were other species of coconut scale in Basilan, but not the same species bow wrecking havoc to coconut plantations in the province and in Luzon.

Carba said the life cycle of a coconut scale insect - a small, flat, yellowish scale with a semitransparent or whitish, waxy covering - is 30-32 days with each insect can spawn up to 50 eggs in

just one week. Eggs are laid under the scale cover and hatch into a stage called crawlers that are dispersed by the wind, on clothing of people, or on the feet of birds and other flying animals.

He said they are now using biological and chemical spray to kill the insects and stop the spread of the infestation.

He said the species Aspidiotus destructor is endemic in Basilan and a minor pest of coconut, but the newly reported, Aspidiotus rigidus, is invasive and causing outbreaks and not known to be present before in the province. (Ely Dumaboc)

Sayyaf-trained Malaysian militant, 2 others arrested ZAMBOANGA CITY – Three Malaysian nationals, one of them trained by the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiya in the southern Philippines, had been arrested in Sandakan town in the Malaysian eastern state of Sabah, reports said on Friday.

Malaysian authorities did not release the names of the three men, but one of them is a naval personnel and the other is a civilian who were said to have aided the entry of the militant to Sabah through the southern Filipino province of Tawi-Tawi.

The men were arrested during an anti-ter-

rorism operation, the second in Sandakan since April where authorities also arrested 11 other militants.

It was not immediately known how Malaysia was able to track down the militants in Sabah, but it earlier foiled a terror plot which was supposed to be carried out in targets in India.

In the Philippines, the police said it heightened patrol at sea in the southern part of the region as part of a measure to strengthen security in area.

Senior Superintendent Rollen Arino, commander of the regional

maritime police force, the efforts are aimed at securing the coastline and the sea against lawless elements and to ensure the safety not only of the region, but the citizens as well, especially those sea travelers.

“We have heightened security and double our patrol to ensure the safety of the region and the people against lawless elements,” he told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.

He also appealed to the public to help authorities fight lawlessness by providing information to the police and military.

(Ely Dumaboc)

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Resting of Ampatuan case premature, massacre fund misused MANILA - The private prosecutors in the Ampatuan Massacre trial have asked Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to reconsider the state prosecutors' move to rest their case. They also allege that the funds for the trial have been misused.

In a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila de Lima and the state's panel of prosecutors dated 5 March 2014 lawyer and private prosecutor Nena Santos said "The resting of the case is premature," particularly against suspects Andal "Unsay" Ampatuan Jr., former mayor of Datu Unsay town, Maguindanao province, and Sukarno Dicay, former officer-in-charge of the Maguindanao Provincial Police Office.

On 28 February 2014, state prosecutors submitted to Branch 221 of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court a manifestation that they were no longer inclined to present more evidence against all arraigned accused and were ready to rest their case against 28 accused.

On 27 March 2014, a report from the Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted de Lima as reacting to Santos's argument, telling reporters that "We (the state prosecutors and I) will still decide on that . . .

We will discuss about it until I make my final decision."

Santos argued in her letter that the Court had

not yet fully admitted the testimonies presented to prove conspiracy behind the massacre, pending the decision of the Court of Appeals on motions to discharge suspects who have been asked to become state witnesses.

Santos represents the families of 27 Ampatuan Massacre victims, including Maguindanao governor Esmael Mangudadatu, husband of victim Genalyn Mangudadatu.

On 23 November 2009, 58 people, 32 of whom were journalists and media workers, were killed in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province, in a single incident of election-related violence connected to the political rivalry between the Ampatuans and the Mangudadatus.

Santos added that the Court cannot grant the resting of the case because Andal Jr.'s defense first has to present counter evidence. "It only created a false hope on the part of the victims and the public that the conviction will soon come to pass."

Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) lawyer Prima Quinsayas agreed with Santos's observation. In a text message to CMFR on 3 April 2014, Quinsayas said the state prosecutors should have at least waited for the Court's ruling on the Formal Offer of Evidence (FOE) in the bail petitions of Andal Ampatuan Sr.,

Kelot nag-amok, waswit at anak pinatay COTABATO CITY – Isang lalaki ang nag-amok at napatay nito ang kanyang asawa at anak at isa pang trabahante ng Japanese fruit exporter na Sumifru sa bayan ng T’boli sa lalawigan ng South Cotabato.

Nabatid na hinahanap umano ni Gerry Piyang ang kanyang asawa sa bunkhouse ng kampanya sa hinalang may kalaguyo ito.

At ng hindi matagpuan ang asawa ay pinagbabaril naman nito ang naturang lugar at napatay si Alvin

Sumili.

Isa pang trabahador ang sugatan, samantalang ang iba naman ay agad na nakasibat ng marining ang putok ng baril sa akalang umatake ang mga rebelde sa Barangay Datal.

Napag-alaman na pinatay ni Piyang ang pamilya ng ito’y bumalik sa kanilang bahay at maabutan ang asawa at anak. Agad rin tumakas si Piyang at ngayon ay pinaghahanap ng mga awtoridad. (J. Magtanggol)

No leads on attacks on twin Zambo brothers ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police have not released any new information on the investigation to the shooting of two brothers - both working in the government - in Zamboanga.

Motorcycle gunmen shot and wounded Michael Cuevas, manager of the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office in Zamboanga City, and Angelo Cuevas, the supply officer of the Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Health Office. They were shot last week by two motorcycle gunmen in the village of Tetuan.

The two brothers were heading home on their motorcycle when one of the

gunmen shot them. The assailants fled after the attack thinking they had killed their targets. Despite their wounds, the victims managed to drive to the nearest hospital.

Police said crime investigators recovered bullet casings of .45-caliber pistol in the area.

The motive of the attack is still unknown, but police said it launched an investigation into the shooting. Gun attacks are not uncommon in Zamboanga City where hired killers are actively operating and largely blamed for the spate of murders here. (Mindanao Examiner)

Andal Jr., and a number of accused police officers and the defense's presentation of rebuttal evidence. (Read FFFJ's full statement on the matter.)

FFFJ represents families of 17 massacre victims.

It is a coalition of five media organizations. CMFR serves as its secretariat.

The judge hearing the trial, Judge Jocelyn SolisReyes, told the state prosecutors herself during a hearing on 12 March 2014 that "Under the rules, the petition for bail must first be resolved before the evidence-in-chief," and that the petition for bail will only be resolved after the defense presents rebuttal evidence.

Judge Solis-Reyes ordered the state prosecutors to instead rest their case only for those accused who have waived presenting rebuttal evidence.

DOJ undersecretary Francisco Baraan III, head of the department's team investigating and prosecuting cases of journalists killed, defended the state prosecutors' move in an interview over the news program Bandila aired on 26 March 2014.

"We had an opening to ask for separate trials for some of the accused whom we know, based on our evaluation, we have good evidence against,"

Baraan was quoted as saying in Filipino, referring to the new guidelines released by the Supreme Court (SC) on 10 December 2013 to speed up the trial.

Two of the guidelines compelled the Court to order the prosecutors to manifest against which of the accused they had no more evidence to present.

"I don't want to mention it in public … (but) there's a strategy here," the Bandila report quoted Baraan as saying.

Both Santos and Quinsayas said state prosecutors had been keeping private prosecutors out of the loop since the start of 2013.

On 3 April 2014, Judge Solis-Reyes rejected from the prosecution panel's FOE against the bail petition of Andal Jr. the testimonies of the following accused being eyed as state witnesses: former councilor Mohammad Sangki and former police officers Rex Ariel Diongon and Rainer Ebus. This was despite petitions still pending in the appellate court for those suspects to be discharged, as now allowed by the SC's new guidelines.

Massacr e fund assacre misused In a separate letter Santos sent de Lima on 14 February 2014, the private

prosecutor alleged that government funds for the trial have been misappropriated, based on several occasions that Santos mentioned in her letter.

In one instance, Santos alleged that the massacre fund was made to appear as if it was used to pay hotel costs for a meeting of private and public prosecutors with Baraan and Witness Protection Program (WPP) director Martin Meñez, when it was really the private prosecutors who footed the hotel bill of PHP120,000.00 (about USD2,600.00).

In the same 26 March report in Bandila, the DOJ said Santos's accusations were baseless, quoting Meñez who said that he already discussed the letter with Santos and showed her that the funds were properly accounted for.

But after TV Patrol's report aired, Santos told CMFR she was surprised Baraan and Meñez granted interviews for TV and that she was still planning to file a complaint with the Ombudsman, with other private prosecutors testifying for her.

In a letter dated 7 April, Secretary de Lima replied to Santos's complaint, saying there was no need for an internal investigation.

"Considering such

satisfactory explanation (from Baraan, Meñez, and the panel of state prosecutors), it appears that you got your facts wrong and the issues in your letter are without basis," de Lima said in her reply.

Sought for comment, Santos told CMFR that in a one-on-one meeting in February, "SOJ (Secretary of Justice de Lima) said she will remove Baraan and Paula (executive assistant Paula Garcia, who Santos alleged Baraan assigned to handle funds and expenses) but will retain Emily (Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Emilia Victorio, Garcia's supervisor). As a classmate and a friend daw namin, we spare her. That is her decision – not mine."

DOJ records confirmed Garcia was "dropped from roll," effective 1 April 2014, because of her "failure to report to work." The last time she showed up for work could not be verified.

CMFR sent a letter on 19 May 2014 to de Lima asking for confirmation of or comment on Garcia and Baraan's removal. De Lima's office acknowledged receipt of the letter, but the secretary has yet to reply. (Ifex, Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility)

Bata sugatan sa pagsabog ng shotgun sa Pagadian PAGADIAN CITY – Isang 11-anyos na bata ang sugatan matapos itong mabaril ng security guard ng isang rice mill ng Instik sa Pagadian City sa Zamboanga del Sur. Sinabi ng pulisya na agad rin nadakip ang security guard ng Chun Rice

Mill na si Kurt Cadungog matapos ng pamamaril.

Nabatid na unang itinutok ni Cadungog ang kanyang shot gun sa mukha ni Celso (hindi tunay na pangalan) at pagkatapos ay saka nito inumang sa ibaba ang baril at ipinutok.

Nahagip naman ng mga splinter ang mukha ni Celso kung kaya’t kumaripas ito ng takbo upang humingi ng saklolo. Naisugod rin sa pagamutan ang bata.

Hindi pa mabatid kung bakit pinaputok ng security guard ang

kanyang shot gun. Hindi pa makunan ng pahayag ang biktima ukol sa naganap. Nakapiit naman ngayon sa bilangguan si Cadungog.

Walang karagdagang detalye na ibinigay ang pulisya ukol sa naganap. (Mindanao Examiner)

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Amasona ng NPA sumuko sa militar PAGADIAN CITY – Isang 19-anyos na amasona ng New People's Army ang sumuko sa militar matapos itong iwan ng mga kasamahan makaraang makasagupa ang mga tropa ng militar sa bayan ng Leon Postigo sa Zamboanga del Norte.

Sinabi ni Capt. Franco Suelto, ang spokesman ng 1st Infantry Division, na kusang nakipag-ugnayan sa militar si Mary Sadia, alias Ka Lisa, uopang sumuko at dala pa nga umano nito ang kanyang M16 automatic rifle pati na rin ang 5 magazines at isang rifle grenade, ng sumuko kay Lt. Levie Jolly Bulawan, ng 10th Infantry Battalion.

“She revealed that her comrades abandoned her during the firefight with the government troops. Instead of re-joining his comrades, she opted to surrender to

rejoin the mainstream society and live a normal and peaceful life with her family,” ani Suelto.

Ayon kay Suelto, inamin umano ni Sadia na grupo niya ang nakasagupa ng mga sundalo sa pangunguna ni Bulawan noon Hunyo 14 sa naturang bayan na kung saan ay isang sundalo a ng sugatan.

Pinuri naman ni Colonel Aminkadra Undug, ang division commander, ang mga sundalo sa pagsukop ni Sadia, at maging ang rebelde ay pinuri rin nito sa kanyang pagbabalik-loob sa pamahalaan. “Her surrender is a proof of our sincerity in promoting peace and we urge other rebels to come and join us and live peacefully with your family,” ani Undug.

Matagal ng nakikibaka ang NPA upang maitatag ang sailing estado sa bansa.

(Mindanao Examiner)

Man takes partner, 4 children hostage in Dipolog City DIPOLOG CITY – Police on said a 29-year old man has surrendered peacefully after holding his partner and the woman’s four children by her first marriage for 13 hours following a heated argument inside their house in Dipolog City in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Norte.

Police said the drama began when Junrey Duhaylungsod engaged his partner Shahani Señoron, 23, in a heated argument and eventually holding the woman and

her children hostage.

The argument broke out after Duhaylungsod told his partner to discipline her children.

Police convinced Duhaylungsod, who was armed with a kitchen knife, to free all hostages and he released them all, one after the other, and surrendered without a fight to the police led by Superintendent Joven Parcon.

Duhaylungsod has been detained the police jail while officers prepare charges against him.

(Mindanao Examiner)

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2 Sayyaf militants captured in Zamboanga City SECURITY forces arrested two Abu Sayyaf militants tied to the kidnappings of Australian and American citizens in an operation in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines, officials said.

Inspector Dahlan Samuddin, a regional police spokesman, said Jimmy Nurilla and Bakhrin Haris were arrested by policemen and soldiers in their hideout in Sangali village.

He said two others who were only identified by their first names Leo and Walid managed to escape and are being hunted down by security forces. “There is an operation right now and we are tracking down those who escaped,” he told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.

Samuddin said both Nurilla and Haris have ties with the group of Abu Sayyaf leaders Puruji Indama in Basilan province in the Muslim autonomous region; and bomb expert Khair Mundos, who was recently captured by soldier and policemen in Parañaque City.

Police also linked them to the kidnapping of Australian Warren Rodwell in Zamboanga Sibugay province on December 2012 and US citizens Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann and her son Kevin in Zamboanga City on July 2011. And also Filipina teacher Cathy Mae Casipong, who was kidnapped on December 2013 in Zamboanga City and Sabrina Voon in Zamboanga City on February this year. Voon remains in captivity.

Last month, govern-

ment soldiers also captured an Abu Sayyaf militant Najil Ajijul following a brief gun battle in Zamboanga del Norte’s Siocon town.

Troops also recovered a .45-caliber pistol from the militant, who was tracked down in the province following the arrest recently of another Abu Sayyaf bomber Nujir Ahidji in a village outside the military’s Western Mindanao Command headquarters in Zamboanga City where the US maintains a high-security facility under the command of the Joint Special Operations Task ForcePhilippines which is helping local troops fight terrorism.

Also in May, policemen captured a 36-year old Abu Sayyaf member Harijin Jinny in downtown Zamboanga while working as a security guard on a

store just outside the police headquarters. His arrested came after commandos raided an Abu Sayyaf hideout in Zamboanga’s Santa Maria village and killed 2 militants and captured 6 others following a firefight that wounded one policeman.

In January, security forces in Zamboanga City captured another member of the notorious Abu Sayyaf group, Jun Akilan who was implicated in several kidnappings in the region. Akilan was arrested in the village of Talabaan while visiting his family.

Akilan is being linked to the kidnappings of teachers in Zamboanga City and also traders in Basilan and Zamboanga Sibugay provinces. (Mindanao Examiner)

Pinas tikop ang bibig sa hijacking ng oil tanker, Pinoy crewman ligtas WALA pa rin impormasyon na inilalabas ang mga awtoridad kaugnay sa isang Pinoy seaman na kasama sa mahigit

dalawang dosenang crew ng isang oil tanker na binihag ng mga pirata sa karagatan di-kalayuan sa bayan ng Bintulu sa

Sarawak sa Malaysia.

Galing ang MT Budi Mesra Dua sa Singapore karga ang halos isang milyon litro ng langis ng ito’y lusubin ng mga pirata kamakalawa at ninanakaw ang kargo at nilimas pa ang mga kagamitan ng crew.

Wala naman nasaktan sa atake at mabilis na tumakas ang mga pirata matapos na pagnakawan ang barko.

Walang ibinigay na pahayag ang Philippine Navy, Coast Guard at ang Department of Foreign Affairs ukol sa identipikasyon ng kaisaisang Pinoy crew sa naturang tanker.

Hindi pa mabatid kung sino ang nasa likod

ng atake, ngunit pawang armado ng itak ang mga pirata at may dalang sariling barko na kung saan ay inilipat ang mga laingis. May hinalang mga lokal na pirata ang mga ito.

Nitong Abril lamang ay inatake rin ng mga pirata sa karagatan ng Malaysia ang isang oil tanker mula Thailand na may kargang diesel at ninakaw ang kargo nito.

Tatlong Indonesian crewmen ng isang Singaporean tanker rin ang dinukot ng mga pirata sa isang pang atake sa kahabaan ng 805kilometer Strait of Malacca sa pagitan ng Malay Peninsula at Sumatra sa Indonesia. (Ely Dumaboc)

MATAGUMPAY ang kadaraos lamang at kauna-unahang Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Summit na ginanap sa Su'Madja Hall sa Sulu Area Coordinating Center Building sa bayan ng Patikul sa Sulu.

Tumugma rin ang tema ng naturang summit na “DRRM Way to a Safer, Better and Brighter Future” sa mga programa ng pamahalaang ng Sulu kaugnay sa paghahanda kontra kalamidad.

Mismong si Manuel Luis Ochotorena, ang Executive Director ng Office of Civil Defense sa Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao at Dr. Sharifa Pearlsia Dans, ang Assistant Secretary ng Department of the Interior and Local Government sa ARMM, ang dumalo sa summit kasama ang mga

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Disaster risk reduction summit tagumpay alkalde at opisyal ng ibatibang bayan at ahensya sa lalawigan ng Sulu.

Sa mensahe ni Sulu Gov. Totoh Tan na binasa naman ni Vice Gov. Sakur Tan ay sinabi nito na lubhang mahalaga ang kahandaan ng bawat isa sa anumang kalamidad dahil buhay at ari-arian ang nakasalalay dito.

Inihalintulad pa ni Vice Gov. Tan ang epekto ng bagyong Yolanda (Haiyan) sa Visayas at ang malaking pinsala na iniwan nito noon nakaraang taon sa rehiyon na kung saan at libo-libo ang nasawi.

“Concerned local government units, government departments and agencies and other stakeholders will be putting their heads together to

fuse ideas and inputs on how best the province can respond to incidences of natural disasters and the responsibilities of all stakeholders in risk reduction efforts leading to minimizing the damaging effects of weather disturbances to lives and properties.”

“The devastation

brought about by Typhoon Haiyan or locally called as Yolanda, has been the barometer in gauging responses to a disaster of such magnitude and the gargantuan rehabilitation efforts in the aftermath. It also stood as testament to the strong human spirit of rising from the ruins by resolve and determination.

While Sulu is not normally in the path of violent storms such as Yolanda, the images of destruction of the areas caught in the eye of the typhoon are too much bear. If not from the Grace and Mercy of God, we, too, would have suffered the same fate,” wika pa nito.

Nanawagan rin si Vice Gov. Tan sa mga mamamayan na maging responsable sa kanilang kapaligiran at ingatan ang kalikasan.

“We must exert all possible human efforts we can muster; then and only then, we subsume to fate.

Mere awareness or knowledge of natural disasters will not qualify as preparedness unless it leads to changes in the attitude and mindset of the people.

Proper waste disposal and solid waste management are part and parcel of mitigating steps to lessen flooding and water surges.

The haphazard construction of houses blocking waterways compounds the problem.”

“Local government units should strictly enforce laws and ordinances governing these matters, and the community should also be responsible and cooperative enough to ensure that we can live in safer environments. There is much we can do, if we do it together,” ani Vic Gov. Tan. Matatandaan na ilan beses na rin binaha ang Sulu at pinsalang iniwan nito sa mga mamamayan, ngunit dahil sa mga programang inilatag ni Vice Gov. Tan ay naisaayos na ito. (Franzie Sali)

Si Sulu Vice Gov. Sakur Tan sa DRRM Summit kamakailan lamang sa bayan ng Patikul. (Kuha ni Franzie Sali)

Notre Dame College may bago nang presidente

Si Father Romeo Saniel bilang ika-15 presidente ng Notre Dame of Jolo College (NDJC) sa lalawigan ng Sulu at si Vice Gov. Sakur Tan at Hajja Nurunisah Tan, ang presidente ng Sulu Provincial Women’s Council. (Kuha ni Franzie Sali) PORMAL ng inilagak si Father Romeo Saniel bilang ika-15 presidente ng Notre Dame of Jolo College (NDJC) sa lalawigan ng Sulu.

Si Sulu Vice Gov. Sakur Tan, na siyang presidente naman ng Notre Dame Alumni Associtaion, ang nagsilbing guest of honor sa nasabing event.

Nagbigay rin ng kanyang mensahe si Gpv. Totoh Tan at naroon rin si Hajja Nurunisah Tan, ang presidente ng Sulu Provincial Women’s Council (SPWC).

Sa kanyang talumpari ay naging emosyonal pa si Vice Gov. Tan dahil sa mga ala-alang nanumbalik ng ito ay estudyante pa ng Notre Dame at pinasalamatan pa nito ang Diyos at ang kahalagahan ng

eduksasyon sa tagumpay na tinatamasa ngayon.

“As the only alumnus of Notre Dame who have risen to occupy the highest executive office of the province of Sulu and presently its Chief Legislative Officer, I’m glad to again set foot on the grounds of my Alma Mater and join the Notre Dame family in welcoming Fr. Romeo S. Saniel as the 15th President of this institution.

Every individual seeks to fulfil his calling and shapes his destiny, by God’s Will and Mercy.”

“Growing up with my late father, who was a Mayor of Maimbung, I was nurtured in the world of politics and I knew from the start that politics is the discipline of my choosing. Fate has been kind to me through the years and Notre Dame de-

ser ves my acknowledgement for having added a stone to strengthen the foundation from which I took off to pursue my career. In any establishment, be it in education or in public service, people come and go. Nothing or nobody lasts forever and changes are inevitable. What matters most is that we have laid a strong path tread upon of those who will come after us as they journey towards fulfilling aspirations for the common good. I believe Fr. Romeo S. Saniel will find a Notre Dame which has proudly survived the many challenges and tests of time.

Accept our good wishes on your assumption as the 15th President of NDJC,” sabi pa nito.

Maging si Gov. Totoh Tan ay nagsabi na malaki

ang nai-ambag ng Notre Dame sa sektor ng edukasyon sa Sulu na kung saan ay marami ang nagtapos doon na ngayon ay may kanya-kanya ng career at tagumpay rin sa kanilang mga buhay.

“Notre Dame of Jolo College is already a part of the history of Sulu and has grown with the province as it is developing and progressing for the welfare of its people and the preservation of its proud heritage. I share the felicitations of NDJC as it welcomes the installation of Fr. Romeo S. Saniel as its 15th President with expectations that the institution will continue to be active and partner with the Provincial Government in many of our program, particularly those leading to community outreaches

and efforts towards preserving the peace and the promotion of goodwill among the people. Fr. Romeo S. Saniel will be leading a strong institution which we pray will be more prolific under his administration,” ani naman ni Gov. Tan. Sa kanyang mensahe ay sinabi naman ni SPWC President Hja. Nurunisah A. Tan na ang assumption ni Father Saniel bilang presidente ng Notre Dame ay magiging bahagi rin ng kasaysayan ng paaralan sa lalawigan.

“The installation of Fr. Romeo S. Saniel as 15th President of Notre Dame of Jolo College marks another colorful milestone in the history of the institution. NDJC stands as a familiar landmark in the landscape of Sulu, but more than its

physical presence, the par ticipation and involvement of the institution in the various community ser vices embarked upon by the SPWC.” “In most of our activities, not only do we share tasks with NDJC students, but also with the priests and nuns who are equally active and rendering efforts oblivious to fatigue and the hectic demands of service. We hope NDJC under the new President will continue to carry on that same tradition particularly to the most vulnerable of our people the women, children and the needy. Our hopes and prayers are for the success of Fr. Romeo S. Saniel in his undertakings,” wika pa ni Hajja Nurunisah. (Franzie Sali)

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June 23-29, 2014

Minahan sa Zambales sinuspinde

The marching landless farmers from Negros, Batangas and Quezon provinces stage a protest to dramatize their call for the completion of agrarian reform program at the intersection of Ayala and Buendia Avenues in Makati City. (Photo by Vincent Go)

Lands for farmers assured MANILA - The Aquino government said it will continue distributing lands to farmer-beneficiaries even if the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program ends this month.

Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said the Department of Agrarian Reform continues to issue Notices of Coverage for the land distribution.

"What is important is the issuance of Notices of Coverage for lands covered

by CARP and despite the expiration on June 30 this year, land acquisition and distribution could continue," she said.

"Medyo paspasan na talaga ang Department of Agrarian Reform dahil palapit na ang deadline. At

kung mapapansin niyo sa inyong mga pahayagan ay halos araw-araw may makikita kayong napapublish na Notice of Coverage at mahahaba ho ‘yung mga pangalan," she added.

Valte said President Aquino has certified the CARP extension bill as urgent, but Congress failed to act on it.

Farmer groups expressed fear that the expiration of the CARP will affect land distribution in the country, especially poor farmers who rely on parcels of land they till.

Some 600 landless farmers from Negros, Batangas and Quezon provinces have marched to Manila in their bid to meet with Aquino anew.

Task Force Mapalad, the federation of landless farmers seeking the full implementation of the CARP, said the marchers will link up with another delegation of 300 farmers from Mindanao, mainly from Bukidnon, Davao and Surigao provinces in Mindanao who are demanding that 10,000 hectares owned by big landlords be covered by CARP and distributed to them.

Cagayan de Oro City Archbishop Antonio Ledesma and TFM President Alberto Jayme said direct presidential action is needed to spur the DAR to act in issuing Notices of Coverage over properties covered by the program before June 30.

PHILIPPINE Police Director General Alan Purisima has ordered an increase in patrol and to strictly enforce gun-control in an effort to curb the rising criminality following the spate of highprofile killings in the country, government spokesman Herminio Coloma said.

He said Purisima issued the order during a command conference on June 16 where police forces were told to increase visibility through intensified patrols and checkpoints, stricter enforcement of gun-control measures, neutralization of guns-for-hire and implementation of search warrants for loose firearms.

Coloma said the increased police visibility and checkpoints would deter criminals.

He said Purisima also ordered to fast track the processing of applications to fill up 18,568 vacancies for police officers, and 13,000 positions for non-uniformed personnel as authorized by the National Police Commission. The hiring of additional police officers will improve the ratio to one police officer for every 579 citizens from the present ratio of one cop for every 675 citizens.

“Another important move taken by the Philippine National Police is the stricter enforcement of gun control pursuant to its duty as the chief implementing agency for Republic Act No. Republic Act No. 10591 or the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act passed in

2013,” Coloma said.

Before the May 2013 elections, the PNP conducted Oplan Katok, a nationwide door-to-door campaign to verify ownership of registered firearms.

“This was also aimed at neutralizing partisan armed groups or private armies. The successful conduct of this campaign resulted in a significantly lower incidence of electionrelated violence, especially in known hot spots,” Coloma said.

But legitimate gun owners said the police should run after hired killers and not those people, particularly businessmen and professionals, who carry guns for their own protection against lawless elements.

SINUSPENDE umano ni Environmental Management Bureau Region 3 Director Normelyn Claudio ang hauling operations ng Benguet Nickel Mineral Inc. at Eramen Minerals Inc. dahil sa bintang na pagsira ng mga ito sa kapaligiran at kabuhayan ng mga mamamayan sa bayan ng Santa Cruz sa lalawigan ng Zambales.

Ang desisyon na ito ay bunga diumano ng walang humpay na kampanya ng Concerned Citizens of Santa Cruz, Zambales (CCOS) na tatlong taon ng tumututol sa mapanirang operasyon ng mga minero sa Santa Cruz at Candelaria.

Ang mga inirereklamo ng CCOS ay ang pagkasira ng mahigit na 300 ektarya ng sakahan; 200 ektarya ng palisdaan; pagbaba ng ani mga magsasaka sa 70 kaban kada ektarya mula sa dating 100; pagbaba ng produksyon ng pinakamahusay na mangga sa buong mundo na matatagpuan lamang sa Hilagang Zambales; pagaksira ng halos lahat sapa at ilog sa Sta. Cruz; pagkasira ng baybay dagat.

At ang pagbagsak ng huli ng mga mangingisda sa dagat; pagakwala ng huling isda at iba pang yamang tubig sa mga sapa

at ilog; pagkasira ng mga kalsada; pagkakasakit ng mga tao at marami pang iba.

Ang suspensyon ng EMB sa naturang operasyon ngf minahanay malugod naman tinatanggap ng CCOS dahil umano'y napatunayan ng mga mamamayan na mayroon silang magagawa laban sa mapanirang pagmimina; napatunayan ng mamamayan na matagal na silang niloloko ng mga opisyales at ng mga minero sa pagpapaniwala sa kanila na wala silang magagawa laban sa pagmimina dahil ang permit ay galing sa pambansang gobyerno kahit kapalit nito ay perwisyo sa mga sibilyan.

Nakita din umano ng mamamayan na sa samasama nilang pagkilos ay maipagtatanggol nila ang kanilang karapatan at mga kagalingan, kabuhayan, kaayusan ng kapaligiran, at ang tahanan ng kanilang salinlahi at dahil sa tagumpay na ito ay lalong lalakas ang tiwala ng mamamayan sa kanilang mga sarili na may magagawa sila laban sa mga dambuhalang umaapi sa kanila.

Ang suspensyon ay mananatili hanggat hindi

naaayos ng mga minero ang kanilang mga perwisyo lalo na ang mga sakahan, palaisdaan, mga sapa at mga ilog, at baybay dagat at walang klarong planong pag-ayos at rehabilitasyon sa iba pang mnaperwisyo; walang maayos na pagtupad sa iba pang kundisyon na nailataga na noon pang ika-2 ng Mayo.

Marami pa ang kakulangan sa order na ito tulad ng pag-aayos ng mga kalsada, pagrerehab ng mga nasirang corals, pagsagot sa mga gastusin ng mga taong nagkakasakit at iba pa.

Dahil sa mga ito ang CCOS ay patuloy na nananawagan sa mamamayan ng Santa Cruz at Candelaria na ipagpatuloy ang laban sa lahat ng minero at iba pang mga grupo na sumisira sa ating kapaligiran at buhay.

Nananawagan din tayo sa mga kagawaran ng gobyerno na gawin ang nararapat upang mapangalagaan ang yaman at mamamayan ng dalawang bayan.

Hindi naman agad makunan ng pahayag ang Benguet Nickel Mineral Inc. at Eramen Minerals Inc. ukol sa mga bintang at akusasyon ng CCOS.

Killer of radio broadcaster Police to intensify patrol, anti-crime ops arrested in Bukidnon

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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Police arrested a man accused as behind the killing of a Filipino radio broadcaster Joas Dignos in the southern Philippines.

Police said Dionisio Daulong was arrested in the house of his partner in the village of Paitan in Bukidnon’s Quezon town.

Daulong, a member of a notorious criminal gang, is being accused in the murder of the broadcaster in November 29 last year.

A village official was also arrested for allegedly protecting Daulong, a known killer-for-hire, who is also being linked to several more murders and frustrated murders and robberies in the province.

Dignos, a commentator at dxGT Radyo Abante

in Maramag town, was shot and killed by two motorcycle gunmen in front of the CAP Building along Sayre Highway in Valencia City in Bukidnon province.

Just recently, another radio broadcaster Nilo Baculo, 67, was shot dead by an unidentified gunman near his home in Calapan City in Oriental Mindoro province, about 140 km southwest of Manila.

The murder of Baculo, who previously sought court protection following a death threat, remains unresolved and so were hundreds of other journalists murdered across the country the past decades.

Baculo in 2008 asked a court for protection after

learning of a plot to kill him from the hired gun contracted to carry out the hit, but it was turned down for a reason that the broadcaster failed to substantiate his request.

Following the court’s denial to protect him, Baculo said: “Our justice system is rotten. You have to die first before you can prove that a threat does exist.”

Baculo, who hosted a news talk and public service program “Isumbong Mo kay Ka Nilo” over radio station dwIM in Calapan City, was the 165th journalist murdered in the Philippines – the 33rd under the watch of President Benigno Aquino, and the fourth this year. ( J. Magtanggol)

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC This is addressed to any third persons who have entered or might have entered into a transaction with Felicity Hills Homeowners Association, Inc., for the purchase of any lot within the said subdivision located at Divisoria, this city.

The concerned third person can contact or communicate with Engr.

Renato Dagalea, with business address at RV Dagalea Enterprises, Don Toribio St., Tetuan, Zamboanga City, to thresh-out said transactions with Felicity Hills Homeowners Association, Inc., considering the said development of the said subdivision is under new management.

All transactions will be entertained only up to July 31, 2014.

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June 23-29, 2014

PHL accused of human rights violations

Two caretakers watch as fire eats up the bungalow owned by the Dela Cruz family in Zamnboanga City's Putik village.

(Mindanao Examiner Photo)

Fire eats up Zambo bungalow ZAMBOANGA CITY – A bungalow burned in after its owner left a rechargeable fan plugged in an electrical outlet in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines, official said.

Officials said there were no casualties in the fire that gutted the house of the Dela Cruz family in the village of Putik, but the blaze spread to the garage where a Pajero sport utility vehicle was parked.

A caretaker of the house said it took fire fighters over 30 minutes to respond to the fire call and

the first to arrive came from the central headquarters in downtown Zamboanga, although there were fire engines in nearby villages.

“We don’t know why it them so long to come. The fire has already consumed much of the house, including the Pajero and it’s good that the vehicle did not explode,” the caretaker told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.

The extent of the damage was not immediately known. (Mindanao Examiner)

Floods submerge Maguindanao towns COTABATO CITY – Thousands of villagers were affected by flash floods in Maguindanao province in the Muslim autonomous region in southern Philippines, authorities said.

At least a dozen towns have been submerged under water after the Rio Grande River overflowed following days of heavy rains. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but the flooding has affected farmlands, mostly rice fields.

Authorities said the ar-

eas flooded were the towns of Kabuntalan, Shariff Saidona Mustapha, Sultan sa Barongis, Mamasapano, Datu Salibo, Datu Sangki, Datu Montawal, Rajah Buayan, Ampatuan and Pagalungan, among others.

Maguindanao has been experiencing flash floods every year during the past decades and rhetoric promises of politicians to address the problems only added to the woes of the locals who blamed their leaders for the poor flood system in the province. (J. Magtanggol)

Motorcycle man dies in road accident TACURONG CITY – A motorcycle driver was killed in a head on collision with a van in Tacurong City, police said.

Police said the van driver, Alejandro Guire, 53, of General Santos City, surrendered to the police after the accident that killed Daryl Barri, 22, a resident of Sultan Kudarat’s Bagumbayan town.

The accident occurred before dawn at the national highway where both

vehicles were travelling on opposite directions.

Barri’s family has claimed his body, but it was unknown whether the victim’s parents would press charges against Guire, who is now detained at the local police jail.

Police said the motorcycle driver had no helmet and was also travelling without a driver’s license.

(Rose Muneza and Sheen Pania)

MANILA - International human rights group Civicus and the Philippine-based rights group Karapatan issued an appeal the other day to the 47 member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to urge the Philippine government to stop the attacks against indigenous peoples and environmental activists in the country.

In an oral intervention delivered by Karapatan Secretar y-General Cristina Palabay before the UNHRC and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights during the 26th Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva, she cited the forcible evacuation of indigenous Manobos in Talaingod town in Davao del Norte province on Mindanao Island due to military bombings and operations against the New People's Army rebels.

Palabay also indicated that the Manobos’ refusal to allow mining companies to encroach on their

lands exposed them to threats and harassment.

“They have become victims of the Aquino government’s counter-insurgency program, Oplan Bayanihan, and they are tagged as members or supporters of the New People’s Army,” she said.

“Mining companies, including Indophil Resources, have applications covering the land where the indigenous Manobos live, for gold, silver, copper, and other minerals.

Their plight is akin to the situation of the indigenous communities where SMI Glencore/Xstrata has mining projects. Antimining activists, indigenous leaders and children were killed by military and paramilitary groups, and justice remains elusive for them,” she added.

Both human rights groups appealed to the UN Human Rights Council to urge Manila to recognize and respect the rights of communities and human rights de-

fenders, who bear the full adverse impact of business, especially big mining, activities. They asked the Council to call on the Philippine government to adhere to international human rights standards, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Palabay also spoke on the issue in a side event on civil society space and protection of human rights defenders jointly organized by international organisations Article19, CIVICUS, ICNL, ECNL, the World Movement for Democracy and the Permanent Mission of Ireland. Mr. Maina Kiai, UN special rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association, and Mr. Frank la Rue, UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, were also in the said panel.

Citing Karapatan’s documentation and reports of London-based non-governmental organization Global Witness, Palabay said that aside

from extrajudicial killings of indigenous peoples and activists, arrests based on false charges of environmental and antimining activists are on the rise, including the arrests of physicist Kim Gargar and Tampakan anti-mining activist Romeo Rivera.

Palabay is among the members of the Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights delegation of human rights defenders and church workers at the 26th sessions of the UN HRC. Others who joined her were Atty. Edre Olalia, Secretary-General of the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers, Rev. Irma Balaba, Assistant Program Secretary of the Christian Unity and Ecumenical Relations Program of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines; and Dr. Angie Gonzales, Atty.

Mary Kristerie Baleva and Julie Palaganas of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines.

1 soldier killed, another wounded in Zambo clashes PAGADIAN CITY – Communist rebels killed one government soldier and wounded another in separate clashes in the southern Philippines, officials said.

Officials said New People’s Army rebels attacked a soldier, who was a member of the 53rd Infantry Battalion, in the village of Ocapan in Zamboanga del Sur’s Guipos town.

The soldier, whose identity was not released by the military, tried to fight off the attackers, but had been killed, according Capt. Franco Suelto, a

spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division.

“The soldier managed to return fire but was outnumbered by rebels and he sustained gunshot wounds on his chest and head that caused his instantaneous death. Troops of 53rd Infantry Battalion Immediately responded in the area found the lifeless body of the victim without his issued firearms,” he said.

Suelto said troops were tracking down the attackers. “A pursuit operation was immediately launched to bring the suspects to justice. The name of the soldier was withheld prior in-

forming his nearest of kin,” he said.

He said the slain soldier was also a member of the army’s peace and development team involved in various humanitarian programs in the province.

“We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the soldier killed. He died protecting the Filipino people and in pursuit of peace and development. It is unfortunate and sad that our soldier was ambushed while serving the people. Our troops are in the community to bring peace and development as part of the

Bayanihan Activities,” Suelto said.

He said one soldier, from the 10th Infantry Battalion, was also wounded in a clash over the weekend in the village of Midatag in Leon Postigo town in Zamboanga del Norte province.

He said troops, led by Lt. Levie Jolly Bulawan, were patrolling the village when they encountered a group of rebels and a firefight ensued. The fighting lasted over 20 minutes.

The NPA has been fighting for a separate communist state in the country.

(Mindanao Examiner)

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June 23-29, 2014

Norwegian man arrested on sex charges MANILA – Philippine policemen arrested a 61year old Norwegian man accused of sexually abusing two Filipino teenagers in Olongapo City in Zambales province just outside Manila.

Police said a local judge Richard Paradeza ordered the arrest of Hoverstad Torgeir, who also goes by the alias Thorn, for abusing two

girls, both age 15, after their parents sought assistance from authorities. Policemen led by Superintendent Rogarth Ocampo arrested the foreigner in his rented room where cops found sex toys and nude pictures of Filipino children.

Officials said the victims told police investigators that Torgeir - who passed himself off as a film-

maker to be able to lure minors to pose in nude in exchange for money - allegedly abused them in three different occasions from March to April this year.

The victims said their photos were allegedly sold

by Torgeir to other foreigners through the Internet.

The foreigner did not give any statement about the accusations against him.

(Mindanao Examiner)

Dahil sa away kay misis, mister nagbigti sa Zambo ZAMBOANGA CITY – Isang lalaki ang nagpatiwakal matapos na ito’y makipagtalo sa kanyang misis dahil lamang sa pagsasaing ng bigas sa Zamboanga City.

Natagpuan na lamang ni Roselyn Careon, 24, ang asawang si Saldavor Estabiel, 23, sa loob ng kanilang kuwarto sa Atilano Drive sa Barangay Baliwan

Grande. Hindi umano akalain ni Roselyn na dinibdib ng husto ni Salvador ang kanilang pagtatalo.

Nabatid na nag-away ang dalawa kamakalawa ng gabi at matapos nito ay naglaba umano si Roselyn ngunit lingid sa kanyang kaalaman ay dumiretso pala ng kanilang kuwarto ang asawa at doon ito nagbigti.

Laking gulat na lamang

ni Roselyn ng pasukin nito ang kuwarto upang ayain ang asawang kumain ng hapunan at tumambad sa kanya ang kagimbal-gimbal na hitsura ng mister.

Humingi pa ito ng saklolo sa mga kapit-bahay upang mailigtas ang asawa ngunit huli na ang lahat dahil wala ng hininga ang mister nito. (Mindanao Examiner)

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Ilegal na droga, ilegal na sugal, kaya nga ba?

By Leo Diaz REPUBLIC ACTS, Revised Penal Code at marami pang ibang kahalintulad at isahog mo na rin ang hindi ko na kayang isiping mga "Task Force", "Special Units" mula mismo sa hanay ng ating tagapag-patupad ng batas kaugnay sa aking tatalakayin subalit sa tinagal-tagal ko na sa industriya; mukhang hindi ko man lamang maramdaman at ng ating mga kababayan kasama na ang ilang sektor sa lipunan ang masasabi kong kalutasan ng lahat ng usaping ito!

Ang illegal na droga ay hindi lamang usapin sa ating bansa kundi maging sa marami pang bahagi ng mundo at hindi lingid sa ating kaalaman na higit na mas bihasa at mas komprehensibo ang mga gamit ng ibang bansa kaugnay sa naturan bunga na rin ng madalas ay "tatag at desididong" operasyon ng mga illegal na droga.

Kartel? mga ilang "mahihina" na nagagamit upang magdala ng illegal na droga idagdag mo na rin ang nakakatuksong halaga at tila wala man lamang halos kahirap-hirap na pagkamal ng pera.

Kung sa illegal na sugal naman sa ating bansa; marahil ako mismo ay naniniwala na mas likas sa sambayanang pilipino mula sa antas ng lipunan o kabuhayan sa "middle at lower class" ay nababaling ang atensiyon sa sinasabing "pakikipagsapalaran" upang kumita ng madalian gamit lamang ang sinasabing suwerte o buwenas.

Iyan lamang ba kaya ang kadahilanan kung bakit sa kabila ng mga umiiral na mga batas sa kaugnay na usapin ay patuloy pa rin sa pamamayagpag ang mga "sindikato" o di kaya ay mga "big time" sa larangang ito at tila hindi tuluyang mawala sa lipunan?

"Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency" (PDEA) mga CAIDSOTF, MAIDSOTF at iba pa na kung bibigyang puna mo nga naman ay sandamukal na ang mga huli, ikinulong, kinasuhan ay ano at nariyan pa rin ang problema sa kanilang tungkulin?

Kung ang batas na umiiral ay wasto o tama nga sa mga gumawa nito; kung ganoon nasa nagpapatupad nga ba ang diperensiya at patuloy sa pamamaygpag ang mga sangkot? O, baka naman ang ugali rin ng marami sa atin na mahilig mag-"eksperimento" na maski mali ay sige pa rin?

O, baka naman sa panig ng ating otoridad ay iyang aking napuna sa ilang kaso na napawalang sala ay ang "planting of evidence" upang masasabi lamang ninyo na kayo ay may nagagawa sa inyong gawain gayong sa katotohanan ang mga naglipanang mas "malalakas, maimpluwensiya o protektado" ay mas madalas na "malibre sa bintang" at mabaling ang pansin sa mas di naman

gaano sana at "nagpapa-gamit lamang?

Katulad na rin ng illegal na sugal lalung-lalo na at partikular tayo na mismong ang "Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office" PCSO)sa pamamagitan ng kanilang araw-araw na bola ng lotto at idagdag mo na rin ang legalidad sa mga "casino operators" na aprubado ng "Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation"(Pagcor) ang pangahulugan kung aking susumahin mismo palang ang pamahalaan ay nagpa-pahintulot ng sugal dahil sa malaking tulong sa ating "revenues"; bakit tila ang nababalingan nga naman ay itong mga "maliliit lamang?"

Ganoon ba ang sinasabi ng batas? Para lamang ba sa piling lunan at uri ng tao sa lipunan?

Hindi ko magawang sisihin ang ating PNP sa partikular sa usaping ito dahil sa lantaran ding may indulhensiya ang ilan sa hanay ng ito bagamat hindi naman sana dapat subalit sa aking pag-aanalisa; ang nasabing pamamaraan ay maibsan man lamang ang pangamba ng maraming sangkot o "operators" ng illegal na sugal upang mamayagpag isahog ko na rin ang sinasabing "continues patronage" ng marami nating kababayan.

Hindi rin ako sang-ayon sa ilang sinasabi ng lokal na pamunuan base umano sa suhestiyon ng ilang sektor na gawing legal na lamang ang operasyon ng illegal na sugal; unang dahilan na lamang ay ang katotohanang hindi maaring saklawan ng lokal na batas ang umiiral na batas sa kapuluan habang sa kabila nito ay tanging ang mga otorisado lamang ng batas na mga ahensiya ang may karapatang magbigay ng tamang aksiyon sa nasabing bagay at kapag ito ay naisa-katuparan, mas naniniwala ako na higit na marami ang aabuso.

Ang "Jueteng" sa bahagi ng Metro Manila at Luzon, ang mga sugal sa Visayas at Mindanao na "Last four, three, at two" na pawang hango sa bola ng lotto; sinu-sino nga ba ang mas nakikinabang?

Droga at sugal- basta napapaloob sa illegal batay sa isinasaad ng batas: ang kalutasan lamang na aking nalalaman ay ang pagsama-sama ng sambayanan at mga sektor sa lipunan upang ang mga ito ay labanan kasabay na lamang ng pang-unawa sa mga "naatasan o tagapag-patupad" na nalalabuan lamang.

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Nag courtesy call rin ang apat na mga negosyanteng Arabo kay Sulu Vice Gov. Sakur Tan na siyang officer-in-charge ngayon sa lalawigan. Nais umano ngayon ng mga Arabo na makatulong sa Sulu at mabigyan ng library at paaralan at sapat na guro

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Nakilala naman ang mga Arabo na sina Ahmad Alhamdan, Saud Alzaram, Othman at Mohammad Alhelo.

Nakipagkita rin kay Vice Gov. Tan ang mga opisyal ng non-governmental organization na Center for Humanitarian Dialogue sa pangunguna ni Ali Saleem, ang Senior Program Manager; at Amelia Venezuela na siyang Finance Manager nito.

Nagpasalamat naman si Vice Gov. Tan sa pagbisita ng mga dayuhan at patunay lamang umano ito ng malaking pagtitiwala ng ibang bansa sa magandang patakaran at pamamahala dito.

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able because an average of 82,000 vehicles use the two existing bridges daily.

The number of vehicles using the bridges is increasing, he said.

Sitoy said that if the third bridge will be realized, it will be easier for motorists from Cebu City and the rest of southern Cebu to go to Cordova and the Mactan Cebu International Airport.

Cebu Rep. Raul del Mar also proposed the construction of an underwater tunnel from Pier 1 in Cebu City to Lapu-Lapu City to connect straight to the MCIA. He said the tunnel will ease access to and from the country’s busiest airport outside Manila.

a panahon sa tinguwan, mga alternatibong medisina giduso sa nasudnong panggamhanan. Ang Department of Health mipahibalo nga tungod kay ania na kita sa panahon sa ting uwan, maayo usab ang pagdangop sa mga alternatibong tambal. Kini sumala sa mga nalatid sa Alternative Medicine Act of 1997.

Lakip sa maong balaod ang 10 ka mga medicinal plants nga anaa ra sa atong palibot nga napamatud-an na sa ilang katakus nga makaayo sa panglawas. Kini mao ang akapulko, paliya, ahos, bayabas, lagundi, erba Buena, ulasimang bato, sambong og niyog niyogan. Ang maong mga tanom adunay kapasidad sa pagayo o pag kibra sa mga sakit nga ma uso kun ting-ulan o kalit nga kausaban sa panahon sama sa sip-on, ubo, hilanat, arthritis, mga katolkatol, lakip na ang high blood og diabetis.

Giawhag usab ang mga barangay health works, city and municipal doctors sa pag endorsar sa maong mga tanom nga naapil sa Traditional Health Program” sa DOH. Nasayran nga bisan gani og ting-uwan makasinati usab og grabeng pagsaka sa temperatura og adlawng huwaw, samtang bisan gani sa mga bulan sa ting-

init, adunay bagyo. Mao kini ang mga sintomas sa climate change. Gawas sa komersyal nga medisina, mas gipaboran ang paggamit usab sa mga natural nga tambal. (Ferliza Contratista)

Inilabas ng pulisya ang composite image ng salarin na siyang nasa likod ng pagpatay kay Cebuano hotelier Richard King.

Itinaas na rin ang pabuya sa P1.3 milyon sa sinuman na makapagtuturo o makapagbibigay ng impormasyon para sa agarang pagdakip sa salarin.

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SINO ANG TUMIRA KAY RICHARD KING?

Cebu toll bridge, sea tunnel proposed

ordova Mayor Adelino Sitoy said the Metro Pacific Investment Corp. of business magnate Manny Pangilinan is eyeing the construction of a P15billion toll bridge linking his town to Cebu City.

He said if the project pushes through the construction of the bridge will start from the village of Pilipog to Shell Island and once operational, it will impose a toll up to P100 per vehicle to recover the cost of the project.

Sitoy said the groundbreaking of the third bridge that will link Mactan Island and Cebu could start next January, adding the project is vi-

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indi pa rin natutunton ang salarin sa pamamaslang kay Cebuano hotelier na si Richard King sa kabila ng malaking pabuya sa sinumang makakapagturo sa pumatay sa milyonaryong negosyante.

Si King, na siyang mayari ng Crown Regency Group of Hotels at iba pang mga negosyo, ay pinaslang

noon Hunyo 12 sa harapan ng kanyang mga empleyado sa Davao City.

Pinasok ng salarin ang Vital C Building ni King na kung saan ito nag-seminar ukol sa kanyang mga health products at saka binaril sa ulo sa harapan ng mga empleyado. Mabilis na tumakas ang salarin sakay ng motorsiklo na minamaneho ng kanyang kasamahan sa labas ng gusali.

Inilabas na rin ng pulisya ang composite image ng lalaking tumira kay King, subali’t limitado pa rin ang impormasyon ukol

sa salarin. Hinihinalang hindi ito taga-Davao at posibleng mula sa ibang lalawigan.

Itanaas na rin sa P1.3 milyon mula P500,000 ang gantinpala sa sinumang makakapagturo sa pumatay kay King. Mahigpit ngayon ang imbestigasyon ng pulisya ukol sa kaso ng milyonaryong negosyante.

Sinabi naman ni Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte na patuloy ang imbestigasyon sa kaso at sinabihan nito ang pulisya na huwag munang maglalabas ng anumang balita ukol dito upang hindi

ito madiskaril.

Nakausap na rin ni Duterte ang pamilya ni King, subali’t hindi naman nito sinabi sa media ang mga detalye ng kanilang meeting. Negosyo at ang personal na buhay ni Kung ang siyang sinisipat ngayon ng imbestigasyon upang mabatid kung may kinalaman ang pamamaslang sa kaso.

Inilibing si King sa isang mausoleum sa Cebu Memorial Park nitong Hunyo 18 at hustisya ang hinihingi ng pamilya nito.

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matrikula ug miscellaneous fees, samtang laing P2 mil ang madawat sa scholar sa matag buwan sa pagtungha.

Matud sa GSIS, tanang sakop niini nga nakabayad sa ilang premiums sa labing duol nga 6 ka buwan ug permanenteng empleyado sa kagamhanan nga may regular nga status sa iyang pagka membro sulod sa tulo ka tuig, mahimong moduso sa aplikasyon sa ilang mga anak o dependents.

Hinuon, aron dili usab makunhuran ang tsansa sa mga bata, kadtong anak sa membro nga midawat sa sweldo sa Salary Grade 24 pa-ubos ang mga mahimong mosalmot sa scholarship.

Mahimong isulod sa scholarship kadtong mosulod sa unang angang sa kolehiyo nga nadawat na sa kurso nga aprobado sa CHED alang

sa upat o lima ka tuig, sa us aka tunghaan nga gitugotan sa CHED. Kinahanglan lamang nga moduso ang kwalipikadong sakop sa GSIS sa application form, certificate of employment ug i-uban niini ang sertificate sa tunghaan nga na-enrol na ang kandidato sa scholarship.

Ang application ipasa sa GSIS Tagbilaran Branch Office, diin ang branch maoy unang mohashas sa applications.

Matud sa GSIS, kadto lamang miduso sa kompleto nga papeles ang iapil sa pagtimbangtimbang sa dili pa kini iduso nagdto sa kaulohan, alang sa pormal nga pagtumbok sa scholarships. Sa dugang pangutana, bisitahe ang local nga buhatan sa GSIS. (Rey Anthony Chiu)

COA questions calamity aid given to 4,200 Cebu City employees Scholarships sa GSIS giuswag

THE COMMISSION on Audit (COA) has questioned the P20,000 given last year to each official and employee of the Cebu City government following the twin calamities - a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on October 15 and super typhoon Haiyan on November 8 - that affected Central Visayas, the Philippine News Agency reported.

In its report on Cebu City’s financial transactions last year, COA said the grant violated section 12 of Republic Act 6758 or the Salary Standardization Law, provisions of the Local Government Code and COA Circulars. It said the P20,000 in calamity assistance was given to 4,224 recipients.

Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama wanted to give a Christmas bonus to city officials and employees last December, but because the expense would push the budget for personal services overboard, the grant was referred to as calamity assistance, according to reports.

The grant was approved by the City Council, but Councilors Margarita Osmeña and Lea Japson did not accept their share because they were not badly affected by the calamities.

Eugene Elizalde, head of the Program on Awards and Incentives for Service Excellence, the committee that recommended the grant, said the money would help hasten the recovery of employees who suffered from the calamities. COA pointed out, however, that it was given without prior approval of the Office of the President as provided for under Administrative Order No. 37 dated November 21, 1998.

It also found out that the calamity financial assistance was not sourced or taken from the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund or Calamity Fund, but charged against funds of the Office of the City Administrator and the transactions were recorded as donations.

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iuswag sa Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) ang pagpanawat sa 2014 Scholarship program alang sa mga dependents sa mga aktibong sakop niini.

Human sa pagtugot ni GSIS President ug General Manager Robert Vergara, giuswag ngadto na sa Hunyo 30 ang katapusang adlaw sa pagpanawat sa mga apolikasyon sa mga buot makakuha sa scholarship.

Nagtuo ang GSIS nga pinaagi sa programang scholarship, mahatagan niini og higayon ang mga anak sa mga banay nga sakop sa GSIS ug ubos lamang ang kita, sa pagtapos sa kolehiyo.

Duha ka gatus sa estudyanteng mo-entra sa kolehiyo sa tuig 2014-2015 ang mahimong kaabagan sa GSIS hangtud sa P20 mil matag semester sa

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