MINDANAO DAILY T H E P U RV E YO R O F T R U T H , J U S T I C E , A N D D E V E LO P M E N T
Volume VI, No. 213
Website: www.mindanaodailynews.com
Wednesday
February 15, 2017
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Group hits ‘ethnocide’ Give peace a chance, not ‘all-out’ war--solons
By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN de Oro City-Indigenous peoples organization has condemned the series of killings tribal community leaders in Mindanao calling it “ethnocide”
as they expressed fear of President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of an all-out war against the Communist rebels. Tribal group Kalumbay said since Oplan Kapayapaan, the counterinsurgency program of the Duterte
administration, there has been reported four lumad leaders killed. Those slain were T’boli chieftain Venie Diamante in South Cotabato, last Jan. 5; Veronico Delamente, a Mamanwa, in Caraga, Jan. 6. On Feb. 3, Renato An-
glao, secretary general of the Tribal Indigenous Oppressed Group Association and a Manobo-Pulangion from Barangay Botong, Quezon town, Bukidnon, and Matanem Lorendo Pocuan from Sitio Tapayanon, Barangay Mangaod, Caban-
Some lawmakers at the House of Representatives on Tuesday appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to reconsider his stance over the peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in the wake of the military’s declaration of an “all-out war” against the New People’s Army (NPA). Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana made the pronouncement following President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to lift the government truce and suspend peace talks with the communist group. Gabriela Rep. Emmi De Jesus said an “all-out war” against communist rebels would only bring the Duterte administration House in shambles. The semi-concrete house of Jocelyn Caytuna in Lipata Village whcih government engineers aid it is within the Philippine fault line in total shambles after the ;powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake “back to square one”, See peace, page 7
that hit Surigao City on Friday night. Photo by Chris V. Panganiban for Mindanao Daily News
Quake survivors recall scary ordeal
glasan, also in Bukidnon. “We fear of the ‘all-out war’ of the Duterte government against the New People’s Army (NPA)… as it will become the license to execute more people and the human rights See hits, page 7
First health summit set on March 2 IT is all systems go for the First Health Summit scheduled on March 2 to be held at the Xavier Estates Convention Hall in Upper Balulang, Cagayan de Oro City. Councilor Maria Lourdes S. Gaane said the Health Summit aims to empower the city’s 80 barangays with regards to health services in their respective areas. Gaane said participating agencies will be allotted 15 to 20 minutes for their presentations during the summit. Target participants See summit, page 7
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
SURIGAO City––Four-yearold JM Monato Ariar died of internal hemorrhage after a concrete wall on their bedroom fell and hit his head on that fateful night when the powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck the city on Friday. “I tried to grab him but I was thrown away and we were groping in the dark,” said the mother Jane,38, who lives with his four children in a semi concrete old rickety small shelter in the interior sub village of Aton, 15-kilometers away from the city proper where five other small shelters were in total shambles. JM expired while he was treated at the Caraga Regional Hospital because of the serious head injury when the 3-meter wall made of hollow blocks and weak steel bars collapsed on them while everybody in the house was already fast asleep. The young boy was among the eight people killed by the tremor, according to a report by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council of Surigao del Norte. Some 209 others were injured by the quake, considered as the See recall, page 7
Bridge. The 100-meter Anao-aon bridge that connects Surigao City and San Fran-
cisco town in Surigao del Norte has totally collapse like fallen dominoes at the height of the powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Surigao. The bridge needs P150 million to repair. Photo by Chris V. Panganiban for Mindanao Daily News
JM’s wake. The coffin of Surigao earthquake victim JM Monato Ariar who has died of head injuries when the concrete wall fell on them during the powerful 6.7 magnitude tremor. The mother Jane said he tried to grab his youngest son but she was thrown away by the strong shaking of the ground. At left, the dangerous cracks on the concrete post of the P1.3 million 2-storey bungalow of Allona Amarillo in Lipata has prompted engineers to declare the house unfit for occupancy. Photo by Chris V. Panganiban for Mindanao Daily News
This young girl embraces a big crucifix which her family believed the icon of Jesus Christ saved them from the 6.7 magnitude earthquake that hit Surigao City on February 10. Photo by Chris V. Panganiban for Mindanao Daily News