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on Page 12 October 29, 2014See story P15.00
Striking union files plaint against ‘illegal broadcast’
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By Davao Today
2 Lumads killed, 2 missing in Caraga
a v a o City––The union of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) Davao formally submitted Friday (October 24) before the National Telecommunications Commission their complaint against the “illegal broadcast” of RMN Davao.
By DEE AYROSO Bulatlat.com
See FULL STORY, page A2
MOA inked for cacao nursery in Sanghan ARC By PAT SAMONTE Regional Editor-Caraga and GIL MIRANDA 11TH MEDICAL MISSION. Second District Rep. Juliette Uy of Misamis Oriental with the support of her husContributor BUTUAN City––A memorandum of agreement for the establishment of a cacao nursery in Sanghan Agrarian Reform Community (ARC) in Cabadbaran City was recently signed by the Federation of Agrarian Reform Community Cooperatives (FEDARCCO), Avanceña Beneficiaries Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (ABFMPC) and Cacao Nursery Management Group. FEDARCCO chairperson Leonila Alindogan said that her group was to set up a three-hectare cacao nursery in the communal farm owned by ABFMPC in Barangay Sanghan, Cabadbaran City. “Through the nursery, FEDARCCO would supply the demand for cacao seedlings in the province and neighboring provinces in Caraga,” Alindogan explained. According to Alindogan, FEDARCCO would address the cacao seedling needs of local governments and See nursery, page A7
band, Villanueva town Mayor Julio Uy, the head of the Unity Movement, holds the 11th medical mission in Jampason in Jasaan town. Joining the couple in bringing the helathcare services nearer to the people are the top officials of Filinvest Development Corporation (FDC). Photo courtesy of Dodo Canoy
BANGSAMORO PUBLIC HEARINGS
Rodriguez to IPs in Bangsamoro: ‘Do not worry. IPRA will be applicable’ Last of two parts By Carolyn O. Arguillas of MindaNews
U P I , Ma g u i n d a n a o – – Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, chair of the 75-member Ad Hoc Committee on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (AHCBBL) and 10 other members came to the hearing attended mostly by IPs. The participants were clearly divided between those who are supporting the BBL without reservations and those supporting it with reservations, in the messages delivered not only through their representatives but also through their tarpaulins and sack streamers, and by their applause
RUFUS upon hearing a key word. According to an IP Dev 2013 survey among 80 barangays in 12 towns “with sizeable IP population” in the mainland of the ARMM the total Lumad population there is 117,189, with
the Tedurays numbering 110,559, followed by the Lambangian with 3,139, the Dulangan Manobo with 2,904, Higaonon with 161 and 17 other ethnic affiliations with less than a hundred each. The ARMM has a population of 4.7 million as of 2013, according to its website. BTC C ommissioner Ulama said IP leaders held consultations after IPRA was passed in 1997. He recalled that three months the National Commission on the Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) was established, they submitted a resolution to its central office, copy furnished Malacanang, to implement IPRA in the ARMM but they got no
response. Fatima Kanakan, Executive Director of the Office of Southern Cultural Communities (OSCC) in the ARMM, said “IPRA in truth and in fact was adopted in the ARMM through Resolution 269 of the RLA (Regional Legislative Assembly) way back in 2003.” She said the problem is that “the NCIP failed to devolve its functions in the ARMM so we cannot move with the delineation process and all aspects of identification, delineation” and blamed former NCIP commissioners like Unsad. Kanakan’s statement at the public hearing drew an angry reaction from Fr. Eliseo Mercado, See WORRY, page A7
SOLDIERS and paramilitary men are suspected in the killing of two people, including a Manobo leader, and disappearance of two farmers in the bordering provinces of Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Sur in the Caraga region, which are undergoing massive military operations. The Caraga region is in the northeastern portion of the island of Mindanao. Urgent Alerts sent by Karapatan Caraga on Oct. 26 identified the suspected perpetrators as operating troops of the 2nd Scout Ranger Battalion based in St. Christine, Lianga, Surigao del Sur under Lt.Col. Jesus Durante, the 36th Infantry Battalion, the 3rd Special Forces Battalion under the 401st Brigade, members of the Citizens’ Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu), and members of the paramilitary group of Calpit Egua. The Urgent Alert said that in the early morning of Oct. 24, villagers saw soldiers of the 2nd Scout Ranger Battalion on foot patrol in Upper Oregon, Logdeck, San Isidro, Lianga. Around 17 of them, including paramilitary men under Datu Calpit Egua proceeded to the adjacent sitio Cabalawan, still in San Isidro. At around 7 a.m., Henry Alameda, 44, resident of sitio Cabalawan and council member of the Malahutayong Pakigbisog Alang sa Sumusunod (Mapasu), had just finished breakfast when three men armed with M14 and M16 rifles forced their way in and dragged Henry out toward the forest. As they passed by a waiting shed, Henry tried to hold See missing, page A7
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