Davao to adopt surveillance cameras vs. anti-Arroyo forces

Police setting up
spycams in Davao
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Philippine National Police in the Davao Region said it would set up security cameras in Davao City but it is not due to the current political tension in wake of massive calls for President Arroyo to step down.
Police regional director Andres Caro said the plan to install [...]

Military vs. NPA in Davao City

Sex rap vs. trooper
inspired by NPA
A military official in Davao City said a 19-year old female who complained of being raped by a military officer was planted by communist rebels to smear the image of the military.
Col. Allan Luga, commanding officer of Task Force Davao, said the female upon investigation has been established as a [...]

CORRUPTION AT CITY COUNCIL – Update 5

Ethics body to Militar:
Tell all or be suspended
 
            The Davao City Council committee on ethics and good governance has warned it would mete sanctions on former floor leader councilor Bonifacio Militar if he could not back his accusation that some councilors are making money out of local legislation.
            Councilor Diosdado Mahipus, chair of the [...]

A LOVE LETTER TO THE NPA

From the Ferrazini family 
As you bravely admit your mistake in killing Centing, it is with much hope that you now also know the person behind the name “Centing”. In case you don’t know – let me tell you a very little bit about this wonderful man…the brother, the husband, the father, the friend…
Centing was a [...]

CORRUPTION AT DAVAO CITY COUNCIL – Update 4

Dad slams Militar for no-show
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Like Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, senior Davao City councilor Victorio Advincula yesterday urged councilor Bonifacio Militar to support allegations of corruption he leveled against some members of the city council.
This developed as Militar yesterday was a no-show at the city council session, sparking speculations he lost his balls [...]

Philippine military slam rebs for killing Ferrazini

Will the NPA indemnify other victims?
By ROGER M. BALANZA            
Military officials in Davao City yesterday ganged up on the communist New People’s Army which admitted a local businessman was killed by a low-level rebel unit based on “flawed decision.”           
The NPA has apologized for the killing and offered to imdenify relatives of Vicente Ferrazini, [...]

Military reaction to NPA saying sorry in Ferrazini slay

Colonel Benito de Leon, 10th Infantry Division spokesman: The apology issued by the rebel group is an acknowledgement of the atrocity that they have directed against an innocent civilian. The NPA should now submit itself to the police or the courts.
 
Major Rodrigo Sosmena, Eastern Mindanao Command, AFP: This is not the kind of justice that the [...]

MILF: GMA to survive crisis

While staying completely neutral to the on-going internal Filipino political squabbles, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has, however, predicted that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will survive the present scare of her presidency and will finish the rest of her term until 2010. “This is my view after assessing all the minus and plus factors against [...]

NPA apologizes for Ferrazini killing

By ROGER M. BALANZA
The communist New People’s Army has admitted the killing of businessman Vicente Ferrazini was a mistake, based on grounds “insufficient to warrant the maximum penalty of death.”
To make up for the error, the NPA said it would apologize to the Ferrazini family and would make indemnification for what it admitted was the [...]

NPA: Ferrazini killing a mistake

Posted at Philippine Revolution Web Central 
Statement of Self-Criticism on the Ferrazini killing 
After issuing a statement on February 4, 2008 claiming responsibility for the punitive action undertaken by operatives of the Ka Paking Guimbaolibot Red Partisan Brigade (KPGRB)-NPA against landlord-businessman Vicente Ferrazini in Davao City, the Southern Mindanao Regional Party Committee of the Communist Party of [...]