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CAMP Alagar, Cagayan de Oro City--The anti-illegal drug campaign in Northern Mindanao now shifted a notch higher, a police official said Friday.

Police Supt. Surki Sereñas, police regional spokesman, said that the regional police command would not implement the second phase of the anti-illegal drug campaign in the region known as “Oplan Double Barrel.”

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MISAMIS Oriental--The province of Misamis Oriental has introduced a “hazard map” that identifies calamity and disaster prone areas in the province.

Provincial Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano said that the hazard m a p would serve as EMANO a guide for provincial residents See MAP, page A2

Barangay, SK registrations end July 30 THE registration for the synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections started Saturday (July 15). It will last until July 30 this year.

Akbayan Youth spokesperson for SK affairs Von Yacob, however, said 15 days of voters’ registration may not be enough if people are not informed.

Likewise, Yacob urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to conduct massive voters’ registration “so as not to disenfranchise the young people.”

He said that the Comelec should partner with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to excuse student when they register to vote during school hours.

In a press statement, members of the Akbayan

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Several hundreds of illegal drug users, peddlers and dealers come to the open to swear before Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo “Aldong” Parojinog and state prosecutors to stop from using and selling illegal drugs, Tuesday (July 12, 2016) at the Ramiro City Gym. Mindanao Daily News photo by Gerry Lee Gorit

PNP data on the drug war

In 2 weeks: 135 killed, 1,844 arrested, 66K ‘surrenderees,’ 43K homes ‘visited’

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BY OFFICIAL POLICE DATA, from July 1 to 13 this year, the Duterte administration’s war on crime has already chalked up big, if macabre, numbers: 135 persons killed or about 10 persons a day on average, and 1,844 arrested or about 141 persons a day on average.

In two weeks’ time, the campaign has also nudged the “surrender” of 60,393 alleged drug users and 5,914 alleged drug pushers, apart

from 43,026 houses “visited” by local and village officials to target and flush out suspects, according to official police reports obtained by the PCIJ. But the PNP data show a curious ratio: Only one “drug pusher” for every 10 “drug users” have been located or compelled to surrender to the authorities in the last fortnight.

In contrast to the big numbers of those killed, arrested, or have “surren-

dered,” the police also reported only pithy volumes and values of illegal drugs seized in the operation — sachets and kilos of shabu, a sprinkling of marijuana, and just one tablet of the designer drug “Ecstasy.”

The total amount of the seizure is listed at “146,345 by estimated DDB value,” which presumably translates to P146.3 million. The PNP report, however, does not show a peso sign; neither does it state if the amount

is in the thousands of pesos or some other currency.

PCIJ asked the PNP to clarify the matter but the officers contacted could not give any explanation as of posting time.

Shabu, by the latest published estimates of the DDB, could fetch at least a million pesos a kilo.

Interviewed by the PCIJ and GMANewsTV’s Investigative Documentaries staff, PNP’s chief,

Priest: Where’s the moral outcry for life?

AMID the rising death toll of drug-related violence, a Catholic priest said what is more alarming is the public silence against extrajudicial killings.

R e demptor ist Fr. Amado Picardal, a known human rights advocate, said the problem is unlikely to stop because “there is no moral outcry” for life.

“It is not only the killings but the reaction of the citizens, majority of them are Catholic,” Father Picardal said over Radio Veritas.

“Others are quiet or they approve of it, the thing is justified until a member of their families are included and that is

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in stormy weather and earthquakes.

The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) has a list of vulnerable areas in Misamis Oriental during heavy rains and earthquakes.

For storm and heavy rains and earthquakes, the hazard map points to flood prone and landslide areas in the province.

Emano said that the hazard map would also serve as a guide to prospective investors who want to invest in the province.

“The investors would be provided an objective assessment about risks and a recommendation of safer areas in the province,” Emano said.

The provincial hazard map could be different from the “Geo-hazard” map of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

The DENR Geo-hazard map identifies only flood prone areas, flooded areas, and landslide prone areas during typhoon and heavy rains.

The Misamis Oriental hazard map includes areas with cases of soil and ground movements resulting to “sink holes” and the “fault line maps” of the Philippine

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Volcanologist and Seismology (Phivocs).

Emano, however, said that the “hazard map” is flood prone and rain induced land slide only, which is certified as of the requirements submitted to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) for the seal of local governance evaluation.

police regional command is still encouraging those engaged in illegal-drug drug activities to surrender to the law enforcers, he said.

Sereñas said that the option for drug personalities to surrender is much better than becoming a subject of a region wide manhunt under “Oplan Double Barrel.” (PNA)

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“Oplan Double Barrel” is actually an initiative of the national police as an active operation where suspected drug personalities would be arrested and charged in court.

Since June, the police regional command has implemented “Oplan TokHang” (Toktok Hangyo/Knock and Appeal), which resulted in the surrender of about 25,000 drug personalities in Northern Mindanao, Sereñas said.

In Cagayan de Oro City, about 2,500 drug personalities surrendered and pledged to reform and stop using drugs or be part of the illegal drug trade as of Friday, he said.

Sereñas said that “Oplan Tokhang” has already been deactivated following the implementation of “Oplan Double Barrel.”

While “Oplan Tokhang” has ceased to operate, the

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youth trooped to Comelec national headquarters on Saturday to mark the return of SK to call for the active participation of the young people for the upcoming local youth council elections on October 31, 2016.

“A better, bolder and stronger SK awaits young people”, said Yacob, adding, “we are excited to participate in the SK elections because after several postponements and an enacted SK reform law, it is finally here.”

The reformed youth institution is historical, being the first enabling law against political dynasties.

Among the reforms are the expansion of the agerange from 15-30 years old and the creation of local youth development councils.

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Police forms task force to probe slay try on Surigao radio journalist SURIGAO City––The police here has formed a task force to probe deeper the slay attempt on a Surigao radio journalist.

The newly installed provincial police director of Surigao del Norte, Senior Supt. Anthony Maghari, told MindaNews that a task force has been convened for the first time on Thursday to solve the case of Saturnino “Jan” Estanio Jr., anchor of dxRS-RMN-Surigao.

Maghari, who was installed as chief of the province’s police office last Saturday, said he would spearhead the task force. “We need to conduct a thorough probe and find the suspects, including the mastermind of this case,” he said.

He said the task force is composed of representatives from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Surigao City PNP, Crime Laboratory and Police Provincial Office.

Maghari said they are now doing a facial sketch of the suspects based on eye witnesses.

Estanio, 41, suffered

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Surigao City radio anchorman Saturnino “Jan” Estanio, Jr. survived a slay attempt outside his house Thursday (30 June 2016). He suffered gunshot wounds on his back while his 12-year-old son JV was hit in the chest. Both are now in stable condition and recuperating at a hospital. A neighbor who was passing by was also hit by the riding-in-tandem assailants. Photos courtesy of Jocelyn Ferol / Media Association of Surigao

three gunshot wounds on his back during the gun attack by riding-in-tandem assailants last June 30 outside his house in Sitio Bioborjan, Barangay Rizal here.

Estanio’s 12-year-old son was hit by a bullet in the chest.

Estanio’s neighbor, Allan Tinambakan Canibel, 52, was also hit on his right shoulder. Canibel was just passing by when the gunmen fired at Estanio.

The three victims are now in stable condition and recuperating from gunshot wounds in an undisclosed location.

Estanio has been waging

a campaign against illegal gambling, illegal drugs and criminality in his radio program.

Prior to the attack, Estanio claimed he had been receiving threats from a big-time operator of illegal game slot machines in the city.

“It’s been 14 days already that me and my son, including my neighbor, were shot and still not a single suspect has been arrested,” Estanio lamented.

“I’m thinking that my case will be among the unsolved cases like the other crimes that happened in Surigao,” he said.

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been killed in less than a month.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines earlier expressed alarm at a sharp increase in police killings of suspected criminals since.

Archbishop Socrates Villegas, CBCP President, said signs of vigilantism and the offering of bounties for criminals are “equally disturbing.”

Father Picardal warned that the lack of public outcry and the seeming normality of summary executions will only make the problem worse.

“If this will continue and this will worsen, I think there is madness that is happening in our country today,” he said. (Ysabel Nicole Hilado/CBCPNews)

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my worry that (killings) will not stop because there is no outcry from the citizens,” he said.

More than a hundred suspected illegal drug pushers and users have already

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‘Peace is for Everyone’ book of Bangsamoro stories: read, weep, hope

By Carolyn O. Arguillas of MindaNews

COTABATO City––“A very good book… I could not help but cry when I started reading the stories,’’ Executive Secretary Laisa Alamia of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) said at the launch Wednesday of “Peace is for Everyone: Bangsamoro Stories of Hope, Survival, Pain and Resilience.”

The 96-page book is a collection personal testimonies of some 300 survivors of massacres in Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-tawi, Lanao del Norte, North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur, and the cities of Marawi, Iligan, Cotabato and Isabela.

These are narratives from the communities are not only about the horrors that they experienced but also about their “hopes for a peaceful, better and more harmonious future.”

Alamia said the stories in the book are a “reflection of stories of every Bangsamoro.”

“All of us have experienced how it is to be displaced, how it is to be in community that has been massacred, in a community that has been hurting for decades,” she said, adding the book is “one way of easing the pain… for all the atrocities committed against the Bangsamoro.”

She hopes the book can help stop the cycle of violence, the intergenerational violence that the Bangsamoro people have been experiencing, as she acknowledged “di pa rin tapos itong violence na ito, pain na ito” (This violence, this pain is not yet over), Alamia said.

Earlier in the morning, in Barangay Meta, Datu Unsay town in Maguindanao, a 15-year old girl name Fatima Elian was killed by stray bullets in a clash between the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and government forces.

5 chapters, 5 kinds of stories A project of the Cota-

bato City-based Institute of Bangsamoro Studies (IBS) and the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) in Cambodia, the book contains five chapters representing stories “of the past, before the conflict,” of “suffering, pain, dispossession and dislocation,” of “resilience and resistance,” of “the reaction to the events around them” and of “hope, generosity and longing for peace.”

At the launching venue in Ebrahim Hall in Em Manor hotel, two women survivors of massacres spoke in Maguindanaon about what happened — Fatima Nagli, on the June 19, 1971 massaacre in Manila, Carmen, North Cotabato where some 70 residents were killed in a mosque and Samsiya Taja on the September 24, 1974 massacre in Malisbong, Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat where some 1,500 residents were also killed in a mosque.

On the 40th anniver-

sary in 2014, then Commission on Human Rights acknowledged the victims as martial law victims. CHR personnel facilitated the filing of the claims with the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board and then CHR chair Loretta Ann Rosales visited the area.

In her welcome remarks, Emma Leslie, CPCS Executive Director, said of the Bangsamoro: “You are people who have lived in this land for generations, you are people who have suffered, you are people who have been massacred, you are people who have been targeted and victimized for decades. But that is not just what this story is about. You are equally people who have showed resilience, you are people who have resisted, you are people who stood up and said that this is not OK, and that is what this book is about,” she said.

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Bangsamoro Stories. Survivor Fatima Nagli narrates at the July 13, 2016

Cotabato City launch of the book “Peace is for Everyone: Bangsamoro Stories of Hope, Survival, Pain and Resilience” what happened in their mosque on June 19, 1971, in Manili, Carmen, North Cotabato, in what is now referred to as the Manili Massacre.

Around 70 of her neighbors and relatives were killed. MindaNews photo by GG Bueno

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Suzuki goes all out with Autofest Extravaganza

Suzuki Philippines, Inc. will hold a series of auto extravaganza tagged as Suzuki Auto Festival in different SM Supermalls to celebrate with their fans and customers.

Everyone is encouraged to join the festivities and get a feel of the stunning Suzuki models on the following dates and venues: SM Sta. Rosa on July 16-17; SM City Pampanga on August 6-7; SM City Baguio on August 20-21; SM City Cebu on October 1-2; and SM City Davao on December 3-4.

The exhibit will feature a line-up of Suzuki automobiles including the Department of Energy Fuel Economy Run 2016 top-notcher Celerio CVT (Overall Gasoline Category), the all-new Ciaz GLX (Best Fuel Rating, Sedan / Gasoline Category), the newly-modified Ertiga GLX, Swift 1.2 (M/T or

A/T), and Jimny, as well as the Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle.

The automobile brand also encourages everyone to bring along their families for exciting games and fun activities such as Buzzwire challenge and Just Dance XBOX kinect dare where smartphones and Suzuki freebies will be given away. There will also be a kid’s corner where children can play.

Suzuki Philippines, Inc. General Manager for Automobile Shuzo Hoshikura said, “Every auto festival is a celebration with our market. It is the time where we showcase our greatest inventions and innovations, which we attribute to all our fans and customers who are our inspiration to achieving what we have accomplished so far.

We will not be having these affairs without their tireless support, so

we hope to return the favour by celebrating with them.” He also encouraged everyone to drop by to one of the auto festivals. “We encourage everyone to be part of this showcase that may get them onboard and experience the Suzuki way of life. See you there!”

For more information about Suzuki Philippines and their automobiles, please visit http://suzuki. com.ph/auto/ and like them on www.facebook. com/SuzukiAutoPH, https://twitter.com/ SuzukiAutoPH and follow on Instagram at @ suzukiautoph.

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The pure sport roadster – Suzuki GSX-S1000

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rev range. It produces 107kW@10,000rpm and 106N-m@9,500rpm.

New pistons were engineered with use of FEM (Finite Element Method) analysis to achieve optimal rigidity and weight. The new cam profiles are designed to optimize the valve timing to tune the GSX-R1000 engine – which is designed keeping in mind racetrack use – to obtain the GSX-S1000 power character that’s more suited to the streets and winding roads. Iridium spark plugs heighten the spark strength and combustion efficiency, thereby contributing to higher power, more linear throttle response, easier engine startup, and a more stable idle compared to conventional type.

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Electrochemical Material (SCEM)-plated cylinders integrated into the upper crankcase reduce friction and improve heat transfer and durability.

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Dunlop radial tires, D214F (front) and D214R (rear) provide great grip in sport riding on the public roads. Handlebar is Renthal Fatbar. Its aluminum made, tapered design increases the rigidity of the handlebar, and reduces weight and vibration.

The Suzuki GSX-S1000 is available at a price tag of P 599, 000.

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Is there still time for happy moments?

By KLAUS DORING TERROR attacks in Nice/ France! Breaking news-just a minute ago. Coup in Turkey. Clashes in Kashmir.

From time to time I love silence. I need quietness. - Do you observe that we live in a real frightful loud world? At every corner of our daily life are innumerable chances of being covered up with sometimes unbearable din and noise. The loud outcry gives me the needle. We don’t have nerves of steel forever.

I strongly agree with Davao Acting Mayor Paolo Duterte prohibiting the conduct of street parties and concerts downtown during the Kadayawan festival next month. Yes, the order is consistent with the festival’s central theme this year - that is to focus on the plight of the 11 tribes of Davao City.

Let’s get to know more the culture and traditions of the Lumads and Muslims.

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Anyway, I am not really a fan of going out at night. If you ask me how to spend a lovely evening after a hectic and stressful and, especially, noisy day - plain and simple.

The nicest occurrence is the silence, the intimate taciturnity, which can even “weld” people or partners together. It might sound just like an idiomatic expression, but believe me; not being forced to talk is great! No, I don’t mean that we have nothing to say to each other any more or, he or she won’t listen

to a special reason... . I am talking about a deep understanding between people, who are together and are able to share time in quiet and silent happiness.

After a long and strenuous day, it is a real big comfort to sit and lean back, read all the (old!) newspapers and magazines from the last days and weeks while enjoying a glass of wine and a handful peanuts. A crossword puzzle is easier to solve while having a “silent” radio program in the background, instead a “roars to hell” television show.

Try it. It’s indeed relaxing after traffic woes, the heat and dust of the day, telephones’ ringing, machine rattlings, meetings and never ending discussions. Why should we talk right now?

Feeling safe and secure, inseparable, indestructible with peace in our minds and our surroundings, this is what we really mean to each other, understanding

without words. At home, somewhere in the garden, at a beach - there are many wonderful places. And, suddenly out of the blue from the bottom of our heart and from the depth of comfort and ease, we might be able to speak about things, which couldn’t be discussed earlier. A good talk grows - but without compulsion or constraint or obligation, desperate or being forced.

Try it, and might feel like walking hand-in-hand on a lonely sand beach, such as “once upon a time” with our first partner. And, unexpectedly: we become silent again AND thankful for it.

We really seldom take a break. We spend too much time in this terrible and frightful loud world... +++ Email: doringklaus@ gmail.com or follow me on Facebook or Twitter or visit www.germanexpatinthephilippines.blogspot.com or www.klausdoringsclassicalmusic.blogspot.com.

Fear of Duterte gov’t eroding

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…

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or not cases had been filed in court. The names of the smugglers must also be disclosed, of course!

-oooFEAR OF DUTERTE GOV’T ERODING: The erosion of the Fillipino’s fear of the Duterte government is taking place very fast and, if President Duterte and his boys will not pay serious attention to it, it could happen that many of our countrymen who have been accustomed to routinely doing crimes before Duterte came in, and who slowed down with their old nefarious ways after he took office, are now back with a vengeance.

Indeed, there was much fear hereabouts shortly before and after the President was sworn in on June 30, 2016. Consequently, many drug addicts and small time

pushers literally fell one over the other in surrendering to the authorities, for fear of being killed. Also, an eerie silence akin to that when martial law under President Marcos was just declared pervaded many places after the Duterte oath taking.

Many Filipinos got very happy with this, and hailed what was happening during the first few days of the Duterte presidency as the advent of the change that was promised during the campaign. Yet, at this point, there is a perceptible return to criminality and disorder in many places, fueled by a growing perception that Duterte could not really monitor what is happening around.

-oooPEOPLE ARE LOSING FEAR OF DUTERTE: Let me cite just a few examples.

When Duterte was installed president, many truckers, truck owners, and operators whose trucks have been passing through Northbay Boulevard, from its northern tip in Malabon to its southern part in Manila, dutifully observed the longrunning truck ban. This meant that trucks did not pass through Northbay Blvd. before 10 a.m. on any given day after Duterte came in.

Also, the slimy-looking characters who had been

extorting money from truck drivers violating the truck ban along the same Northbay Blvd., disappeared from the scene, after Duterte’s inauguration. But both the trucks running while the truck ban was still in effect, and the extortionists plying their trade in Northbay Blvd., have returned, and so are the policemen and traffic aides who are known to coddle the bad eggs in the area.

What gave them the renewed “bravery’ to violate truck ban and proceed with their extortionate ways once again? It could only be the removal of their fear that they could be caught and then punished under the Duterte presidency. It is exciting to ponder about what could be behind the growing removal of their fear of Duterte, don’t you think so, my dear readers?

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‘Time is eternity’ “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

Time is what we make of it. We can allow fear to control us, grief to invade our lives, unhealthy relationships to waste our future, wait helplessly for

chronic habits to change, or welcome good times and situations to celebrate.

What ultimately becomes the most complete cup of courage is when one embraces “time” for the purpose of loving others. Would you be interested in applying for this career path? Time truly is what we make of it. So let’s make the most and make a difference.

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to clarify the matter but the officers contacted could not give any explanation as of posting time.

Shabu, by the latest published estimates of the DDB, could fetch at least a million pesos a kilo.

Interviewed by the PCIJ and GMANewsTV’s Investigative Documentaries staff, PNP’s chief, Director General Ronald ‘Bato’ M. dela Rosa, said ‘Oplan Double Barrel’ is the Duterte administration’s blueprint for its war on drugs.

PCIJ asked for a copy of whatever PNP document has been issued clarifying the goals, scope, guidelines, and protocols for the implementation of the anti-drug war but did not get any from dela Rosa.

Instead, the PNP head said that President Rodrigo R. Duterte would issue shortly an executive order creating an inter-agency committee that will take charge of the police, legal, social, health, and other myriad aspects of the war on drugs.

Dela Rosa added that the PNP’s Internal Affairs Service has also started to investigate complaints of alleged abuses by the police and other officials in specific operations that had led to the death of some alleged drug users and pushers.

For now, dela Rosa said ‘Oplan Double Barrel’ is “the big picture” in the anti-drug war. It supposedly involves unleashing “the upper barrel” – ‘Oplan HVT’ — to snare “high-value” and supply-side targets; and “the lower barrel” or ‘Oplan Tokhang,’ to flush out “lowvalue” and demand-side targets.

‘Tokhang’ is a combination of Visayan words “toktok” or to knock, and “hangyo” or to plead or request. ‘Tokhang’ was first launched in Davao City in 2012 under then Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte.

Local government units have adopted the campaign, but some have infused it with their own branding.

The Quezon City government calls its campaign ‘Oplan Kapak,’ or short for “katok” and “pakiusap.”

In Tanuan, Batangas, the mayor has required alleged drug users and pushers to take their “walk of shame” across the city, with posters declaring “Drug Addict Ako: Huwag Pamarisan (I am a Drug Addict. Don’t Follow my Example)” either hanging from their necks or taped to their clothes.

‘Accomplishments’ As of July 13, 2016, reports of the National Operations Center (NOC) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) showed these “accomplishments” of the new administration’s twoweek-old war on drugs.

135 suspects killed, including two PNP members; 1,843 arrested, including 1,836 civilians, 6 foreign nationals, and 1 “govern-

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ment/elected official”; and 4,016 “surrendered”, including 4,011 civilians, 3 “government/elected officials”, 1 policeman, and 1 security guard.

Of the countr y’s 18 regions, no killings have been reported as of July 13 in only seven regions: the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Western Visayas, Cagayan Valley, Zamboanga Peninsula, Mimaropa, Eastern Visayas, Northern Mindanao, and Negros Island Region.

In the 11 other regions, however, the PNP reports showed that the bodies of alleged drug pushers have shown up in alarming numbers, notably: • 55 killed in Central Luzon; • 44 in Metro Manila; • 17 in Calabarzon; • 6 in Ilocos Region; • 5 in Soccsksargen; • 3 in the Bicol Region; • 2 in Central Visayas; • 1 in the Cordillera Administrative Region; • 1 in the Caraga Region; and • 1 in the Davao Region.

‘Hostile’ and ‘killed’ Media reports have quoted police authorities as saying that the drug suspects ended up dead because they resisted arrest or fought back – “nanlaban.” Two PNP reports on Oplan Tokhang in fact show a match between the figure of those killed and that of drug pushers who were “hostile” or had denied they were involved in the illegal trade.

Interestingly, the NOC report on its “Monitoring on Project Tokhang,” show “hostile” drug pushers in only four areas: Metro Manila, Ilocos Region, Mimaropa, and Cordillera.

But according to another NOC report, “Monitoring on the Anti-Illegal Drugs Accomplishment,” which covers Oplan Tokhang during the same period, the fatalities are spread across 10 areas – which even excludes Mimaropa, which had the highest number of “hostile” drug suspects (124).

Metro Manila, which had only seven drug suspects listed as “hostile” in one report ended up with 44 fatalities under Oplan Tokhang in the other document. Central Luzon and Calabarzon also had no “hostile” drug suspects listed in the “Monitoring on Project Tokhang” report, yet according to the other NOC tally, they had the second and third highest number of dead respectively under the same police operation.

Alleged pushers In any case, the PNP says that Project Tokhang has snared 5,914 “drug pushers” from July 1 to 13, including: • 5,693 listed under the category of “voluntary surrender”; • 86 under the category of “surrender of drugs”; and • 135 under the category of “hostile/denial.”

In the meantime, a “surrenderees” tally of 4,016 is enrolled in “Monitoring on the Anti-Illegal Drugs

Accomplishment.”

But the supplementary “Monitoring on Project Tokhang,” which draws the participation of local government units and barangay councils, showed much bigger numbers of “surrenderees.”

In this second report, the NOC said that from July 1 to 13, 2016, a total of 60,393 “drug users” have been located in the 18 regions of the country, but only 5,914 “drug pushers.”

The numbers indicate that only one “drug pusher” for every 10 “drug users” have been covered by Project Tokhang in the first two weeks of the government’s war on drugs.

In addition, the report said that as of last July 13, a total of 43,026 houses have been “visited” as part of Project Tokhang.

Alleged users The 60,393 “drug users” who have been located or identified across the country in the last two weeks, included: • 2,903 in areas covered by the National Capital Region Police Command (Metro Manila); • 1,348, Police Regional Office 1 (Ilocos Region); • 416, PRO 2 (Cagayan Valley); • 6,650, PRO 3 (Central Luzon); • 1,075 PRO 4A (Calabarzon); • 391, PRO 4B (Mimaropa); • 1,553, PRO 5 (Bicol Region); • 307, PRO 6 (Western Visayas); • 4,472, PRO 7 (Central Visayas); • 962, PRO 8 (Eastern Visayas); • 5,869, PRO 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula); • 20,061, PRO 10 (Northern Mindanao); • 4,801, PRO11 (Davao Region); • 338, PRO 12 (Soccsksargen); • 5,700, PRO 13 (Caraga); • 921, PRO-Cordillera (Cordillera Administrative Region); • 153, PRO-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao; and • 2,473, PRO 18 (Negros Island Region).

Houses ‘visited’ The 43,026 “houses visited” under Project Tokhang consisted of big numbers for certain areas: • 7,663 houses in Zamboanga Peninsula; • 5,939 in Northern Mindanao; • 4,672 in Central Luzon; • 4,233 in Metro Manila; • 4,077 in Caraga; • 2,971 in Central Visayas; • 2,249 in Calabarzon; and • 2,227 in Eastern Visayas.

In contrast, fewer houses have been “visited” in these regions from July 1 to 13, 2016: • 1,712 houses in Bicol Region; • 1,704 in Ilocos Region; • 1,530 in Davao Region;

• 1,239 in the Cordillera Administrative Region; • 668 in Mimaropa; 541 in Negros Island Region; • 474 in Western Visayas; • 442 in Cagayan Valley; • 416 in Soccsksargen; and • 269 in ARMM. Seized drugs Finally, as part of the “results of operation” of its war on drugs, the various PNP regional offices reported the seizure or surrender of relatively small volumes of illegal drugs during the same period. These included: • 2,906 sachets of shabu or methamphetamine hydrochloride; • 230 kilos of shabu; • 1,094 grams of shabu; • 26 packs of shabu; • 57 sachets of marijuana; • 42 marijuana leaves; • 33 marijuana rolls; • 10 marijuana plants; and • 1 Ecstasy tablet.

The PNP report put the “estimated DDB value” of this cache of seized illegal drugs at only “146.345.

All the PNP regional offices reported that they had seized sachets of shabu, which is also known as the accessible drug of choice of the less affluent.

Yet the 230 kilos of shabu listed in the report were apparently confiscated from only two operations conducted in Metro Manila (50 kilos) and in Cagayan Valley (180 kilos).

The seizure of the single tablet of Ecstasy — “the drug of choice of the rich” — was credited to the PNP regional office in Calabarzon. — PCIJ, July 14, 2016

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approach Leslie later told MindaNews while the book’s aim was to collect the stories of survivors of massacres, “what was interesting is that they had much more to say than just about the massacres.”

The book, according to the Introduction, used a “Peace History” approach which looks at the “intersection between personal experiences and collective accounts” and that by “weaving together individual stories, we aim to present a complex, nuanced, rich description of shared experiences,” as well as a diversity of opinions and sentiments about the future following the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) between the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in March 2014.

Mo Bleeker, Special Envoy of the Swiss Foreign Ministry on Dealing with the Past and Prevention of Atrocities, and chair of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) in the GPH-MILF peace process said the book “bears witnesses to the urgent and essential need and obligation to build a lasting peace for the Moro community and the entire

Philippine nation.”

Bleeker said coming to terms with the past is “essential to building the foundations for a just and lasting future peace” and she hopes that the report of the TJRC which was submitted to the government early this year, will be read and that its recommendations “in particular the establishment of a historical commission of historical memory – will be put into practice.

“Peace is what is needed now. Peace cannot wait any longer,” she said.

Raissa Jajurie, TJRC Project Consultant who spoke on behalf of the TJRC’s Ishak Mastura at the launch, echoed the need to bring the TJRC’s recommendations to fruition.

“Certainly, having initiatives such as ‘Peace is for Everyone’ is a welcome first step towards ensuring that we do not lose our historical memory and that we use them towards reconciliation and healing.

Leslie, a member of the International Contact Group in the GPH-MILF peace process, explained that the book does not offer any recommendation and is not a tool for people to go around and start lobbying for changes in government policy but is “a tool for you to start dialogue.”

She noted a major learning from the January 25, 2015 Mamasapano Tragedy that left 66 persons killed – 44 members of the Special Action Force of the Philippine National Police, 17 from the MILF and five civilians – that “in Manila, in Northern Luzon, in the Visayas, they still do not fully understand the story of the Bangsamoro. And we need to use this book, not as a tool for meeting people, but start a dialogue, and for people to accept that the narrative of the Bagsamoro

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is real.”

While celebrating resilience, Leslie said “today is also the day to remind the new administration that such fortitude, strength, hospitality should not be taken advantage of. People cannot wait for peace and justice forever. This new administration will be well advised to understand that the historical injustices must be addressed now. The time is now. It cannot wait forever.”

The narratives in the book are accompanied by colored photographs of survivors taken by journalist Karlos Manlupig.

Leslie urged the audience to “please embrace this book, share it, take it everywhere you go; read the stories; tell your children and your grandchildren, and let us carry forward and honor those who survived, those who were resilient; demand peace and nothing else.”

Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga, IBS Executive Director opted to speak in Maguindanaon in his closing remarks. He talked about the importance of documenting the Bangsamoro experience “as evidence that the Bangsamoro narrative is real.”

The book was launched at the Mindanao State University in Marawi City on July 12 and will be launched in Manila soon.

A PDF of the book can be downloaded from http:// www.centrepeaceconflictstudies.org/peace-is-foreveryone-bangsamoro-stories-of-hope-survival-painand-resilience/. (Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews)

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