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"Walang kasaysayan sa mundo na natalo ang pakikibaka ng mamamayan, makibaka wag matakot!" Jong Monson. -Pasaka Secretary General.
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As we can remember, Two farmers and a civilian were killed while hundreds including policemen were injured in the April 1 incident
500 farmers protested in front of the National Food Authority office in Kidapawan City, last March 29 because of the effects of El Nino to their livelihood.
The 500 farmers who went to the protest ballooned to 6, 000 protesters that led to blocking Kidapawan Highway. The police in the area came to negotiate with them to clear the main road. However, tension grew worse and led to violent dispersal.
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How VIOLENT did the dispersal go?
During the hearing conducted at the University of Southern Philippines in Davao City, Human Rights Commissioner Gwendolyn Pimentel-Gana confirmed there were "disturbing findings" in the initial investigation they conducted.
Pregnant women and the elderly were among those detained by the police.
"I have talked to three pregnant women in the detention center," Pimentel-Gana said in a GMA News interview.
"We have observed that a lot of senior citizens have indeed been picked up, both women and men. There are questions whether they are even directly involved or the ones who committed the direct assault," Pimentel-Gana said.
The Davao City Council has approved to allocate the city's calamity funds to provide 15,000 sacks of rice that was demanded by North Cotabato farmers to the provincial government as food relief for the El Niño drought.
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After negotiations by the humanitarian mission, the police finally allowed the Makilala women farmers and their children to enter the Methodist Church Compound to rest. The farmers have been left along the highway since Sunday morning. The police, however, did not grant the male farmers to enter the compound.
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Delegates from a national fact-finding mission staged a picket at the streets after police blocked them at a checkpoint along Brgy. Taculudong, Tacurong.
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Close to 300 farmers under the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) in Soccsksargen staged a protest action at the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 12 and demanded the latter to release the calamity fund in order to provide sustenance and support for the affected farmers of the El Nino phenomenon.
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One of the detained farmers in Kidapawan Gym, Jun candiban. 49. from Brgy. Bagumbayan, Magpet shows the wounds from the beatings during the dispersal yesterday. He said he is still reeling from the beatings.
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One of the detained farmers in Kidapawan Gym, Jun candiban. 49. from Brgy. Bagumbayan, Magpet shows the wounds from the beatings during the dispersal yesterday. He said he is still reeling from the beatings.
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One of the detained farmers in Kidapawan Gym, Jun candiban. 49. from Brgy. Bagumbayan, Magpet shows the wounds from the beatings during the dispersal yesterday. He said he is still reeling from the beatings.
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One of the detained farmers in Kidapawan Gym, Jun candiban. 49. from Brgy. Bagumbayan, Magpet shows the wounds from the beatings during the dispersal yesterday. He said he is still reeling from the beatings.
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PNP North Cotabato is serving a search warrant to enter the Spottswood Methodist center where about 6,000 farmers stayed after the massacre yesterday at the barricade. The warrant is to search for firearms.
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One farmer was killed and eight others wounded when police fired their M16 rifles on them to disperse the 6,000-strong barricade demanding for the delayed food relief and calamity funds.
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One farmer was killed and eight others wounded when police fired their M16 rifles on them to disperse the 6,000-strong barricade demanding for the delayed food relief and calamity funds.
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One farmer was killed and eight others wounded when police fired their M16 rifles on them to disperse the 6,000-strong barricade demanding for the delayed food relief and calamity funds.
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The family of Darwin Sulang, one of the farmers killed during the Kidapawan massacre last April 1, 2016 , never thought that they would be peppered with bulletsbecause they only asked for the much needed relief due to the el niño phenomenon that hit their land. Now, apart from hunger and devastation, Darwin's family are mourning over his death and the continuous demonization of his fellow farmers who fought for their rights. His remains are now at Barangay Malibatuan, Sitio Kawayan, Arakan, North Cotabato.
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Some public figures and groups donated sacks of rice, canned foods and shelter for the farmers
400 sacks of rice arrived at the sanctuary of protesting farmers from Kilusang Mayo Uno-National office.
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Farmers taking their meals and resting while waiting for the chance to return home after receiving food relief. Some farmers complained that their belongings inside backpacks were lost during Friday's bloody barricade.
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Farmers taking their meals and resting while waiting for the chance to return home after receiving food relief. Some farmers complained that their belongings inside backpacks were lost during Friday's bloody barricade.
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Farmers taking their meals and resting while waiting for the chance to return home after receiving food relief. Some farmers complained that their belongings inside backpacks were lost during Friday's bloody barricade.
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Farmers taking their meals and resting while waiting for the chance to return home after receiving food relief. Some farmers complained that their belongings inside backpacks were lost during Friday's bloody barricade.
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The rice donations initiated by the Davao Media Group for the North Cotabato farmers suffering from El Niño drought arrives at the United Methodist Church compound in Kidapawan City at 9pm.
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Farmers and lumads finally getting a night's sleep inside the Methodist Church compound after near two days of fear and bloody attacks, and certainty of receiving food relief from concerned citizens and groups all over Mindanao.
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Robin Padilla consoles a family of a wounded farmer in a hospital in Kidapawan City during Friday's bloody dispersal. The movie star donated 200 sacks of rice to the farmers of drought-stricken North Cotabato.
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Robin Padilla arrives in Kidapawan City Saturday to sympathize and listen to the protesting farmers who were dispersed and beat up by police on Friday. Padilla listened to farmers and activist leaders and also gave a brief inspiring message to the farmers. He later proceeded to a rice warehouse where he bought 200 sacks of rice for the farmers.
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Arakan Parish Priest Fr. Peter Geremiah PIME also visited the detained farmers, some of whom are parish members and beneficiaries of the parish projects in North Cotabato.
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"Walang kasaysayan sa mundo na natalo ang pakikibaka ng mamamayan, makibaka wag matakot!" Jong Monson.-Pasaka Secretary General.
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During the said probe, PNP Region 12 legal officer Adrian Gan said the PNP has filed direct assault charges against protesters in the City Prosecutor's office
"We have already filed 81 cases before the City Prosecutor's Office and filed on Sunday," he said in a GMA News interview.
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Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano said in an earlier statement that the PNP might have violated the law for keeping the farmers under its custody for almost a week
However, Gan clarified that the warrantless arrest was legal because the protesters were caught in the act of committing the crime.
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Earlier, the government decided to award the Kidapawan police "medals" over the violent dispersal of the 6,000 barricading farmers right after said incident
Urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) lambasted the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) for the awards given to elements of the Philippine National Police (PNP), who were allegedly behind the killing of at least three farmers in Kidapawan City in North Cotabato. – Via Newsfleet
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Two nurses are charged with direct assault for bringing medicines to farmers in Kidapawan?
Two male nurses were allegedly charged with 'direct assault' for supposedly attempting to bring in medicines for farmers taking refuge at the Spottswood Methodist Center in Kidapawan City to tend to the farmers.
