Former GMA reporter among 4 NPA dead in Negros
Magbanua revealed that Dela Cruz, 26, was a former television reporter of GMA Network’s “Balitang Bistak” after graduating from the Catholic University of San Jose-Recoletos in Cebu City with a journalism degree.
Retired NDFP consultant ‘abducted’ in Parañaque
Karapatan-Southern Tagalog said retired NDFP peace consultant Ernesto Lorenzo, along with Maria Fe Serrano, their driver Andrei Medina, their aide Plinky Longhas and another unidentified person, were “abducted” by the police while queuing up for COVID-19 vaccines at the Nayong Pilipino mega-vaccination site.
Family asks, ‘Where is NDFP consultant Esteban Manuel?’
“My father is 73 years old and of fragile health. He has hypertension and needs medicines. But we have not received replies to our queries to locate him,” Albert wrote.
A Call to the Philippine Army: Respect for Press Freedom in Word and Deed
Since the military by its function is not a repository of democratic values, we call on our soldiers to cease forthwith this insidious campaign to silence media and its members; to limit citizen access to views and perspectives that may differ from those held by the government in power.
CPP slams CHR for ‘echoing AFP lies’ on landmines
“By condemning wholesale the use of landmines, the CHR mouthpiece is not helping educate the public with regard the Ottawa Treaty. He should understand that the treaty specifically bans the use of landmines that are ‘designed to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person’ and does not prohibit the use of command-detonated landmines,” CPP public information officer Marco Valbuena said.
Bicol NDF says Masbate ‘clash’ another police canard
The group said the three massacre victims were civilians and not communist guerrillas.
NDFP: AFP blurs distinction between banned and allowable landmines
“There are the tendentious, misinformed and even maliciously distorted claims of the GRP (Government of the Republic of the Philippines) and other entities on the issue of the legitimacy and acceptability of the use of certain types of landmines in warfare in the context of the present armed conflict and in accordance with an accurate reading of international humanitarian law and instruments on the matter,” the NDFP said.
NUJP to military: Why blame the journalists, not the Chinese?
“[T]he better question might be aimed at the AFP: What were you not doing there? An even more important question is what the Chinese military was doing in our waters and how the (Rodrigo) Duterte administration plans to address this incident,” the NUJP said.
Groups welcome Senate bill criminalizing red-tagging
“This is a very welcome development in the people’s fight against State-sponsored red-tagging and human rights violations. We are hoping for the approval of this measure. Farmers will lobby for the passage of this bill,” KMP chairperson Danilo Ramos said.
Communist leader and wife executed; corpses left in military safe house—CPP
Cabanatan, known as Manlimbasog (To Strive) by his comrades, was a member of the CPP Central Committee, served as secretary of its Mindanao Commission and member of its Political Bureau and Executive Committee until his reported retirement due to health problems in 2017.