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January 27, 2017
Davao Oriental placed under state of calamity MALAYBALAY CITY — The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Davao Oriental on Tuesday made a declaration placing the province under a state of calamity due to massive flooding in several towns, according to provincial information officer Karen Deloso. Cateel and Boston towns had earlier made state of calamity declarations due to damage caused by the floods. Deloso said Baganga town was also planning to declare a state of calamity. Flood waters cover most of Kapalong town in Davao del Norte in this photo taken on January 24, 2017. Photo courtesy of Davao del Norte Provincial Information Office B oston, C ate el and Baganga lie on the province’s eastern coast. The same towns were badly hit by typhoon Pablo (Bopha) in December 2012. In Lupon, Davao Oriental the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and See calamity, page B3
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NDFP sees finished CASER draft this year
BILATERAL talks between the reciprocal working committees on socio-economic reforms (RWC-SER) of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) ended, with agreements already reached on the Preamble and Declaration of Principles, and common ground found in the Bases, Scope and Applicability (Part II) and Desired Outcomes (Part III). Discussions have also already begun on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (Part IV). In an interview, NDFP RWC-SER spokesperson Randall Echanis said that with the SER talks proceeding as scheduled so far, they expect to finish the draft Comprehensive Agreement on Socio-Economic Reforms (CASER) within the year. The RWCs of both panels held four working meetings between January 20 and 24. Talks on SER comprised the bulk of the working meetings in the third round of the peace negotiations held in Rome. In the second President Rodrigo Roa Duterte greets a boy whose father was among the 44 members of the Special Action Force round last October, the who were killed in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on January 25, 2015. The President met with the families of the fallen parties agreed on a compolice commandos at the Heroes Hall in Malacañan Palace on January 24, 2017. ROLANDO MAILO /Presidential Photo
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Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces and five civilians. Duterte told relatives of the 44 slain SAF members during a dialogue in Malacanang Tuesday afternoon that he would appoint people of “integrity and honor” and give them until the end of the year to submit its findings so “(we) can have the truth” about what happened. Earlier in his speech, however, he said former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III has to “answer to the nation” for the trag-
edy that was “an American adventure with the cooperation of some and apparently with your (Aquino’s) blessing.” He asked why the SAF was deployed there when it is trained for urban settings and the Army is practially surrounding the Mamasapano area. ” And why was it under wraps? At bakit ninyo itinago na actually it was an operation of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency of the United States)?” Duterte said it was not
Duterte to create commission to probe Mamasapano tragedy By Carolyn O. Arguillas of Mindanews
DAVAO CITY — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the creation of a seven-person commission similar to the Agrava Commission that investigated the 1983 assassination of former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. to investigate the January 25, 2015, Mamasapano Tragedy that left 66 persons dead — 44 of them from the Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Fellow police officers carry the caskets of slain police commandos to transport them Police, 17 from the Moro home aboard Philippine Air Force C-130 planes in January 2015. Islamic Liberation Front’s MindaNews
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