ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — A barangay chairman who is said to be vocal against the illegal small-scale mining activities in his village was reported to be in critical condition after he was shot early Friday. City police director Senior Supt. Edwin de Ocampo said the incident took place shortly after 6 a.m. Friday in [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 December) –The widow of a slain anti-mining activist said that if the government could not go after her husband’s killers, she would consider stopping the Tampakan gold-copper mining project enough justice for her husband. ”If the mining operation of Xstrata be stopped, I would consider that the first step in the quest [...]

MANILA (MindaNews/26 November)—Failure to resolve the Ampatuan Massacre and deliver justice to the victims will worsen the culture of impunity that has come to characterize the killings of journalists in the country, a press freedom advocate yesterday told participants to the national congress of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) here. Prof. [...]

BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/2 Sept) — A series of killings, threats and harassments over the past months has alarmed indigenous people and civilian communities in this town. A report submitted to the regional office of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Western Mindanao said that there have been 15 killings in the months [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Police authorities here have recorded at least 65 gun-related killings, most of which reportedly involved suspected hired killers, during the last eight months. Supt. Maximo Layugan, deputy city police director, said their records showed that since January eight persons were killed on the average every month in various shooting [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 August) —  Police authorities have launched a deeper investigation into the killing of a top official of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) here early Sunday. Senior Supt. Cedrick Train, acting city police director, identified the victim as Dante Demerin,  chief of BFAR Region 12’s Quarantine Office based in [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 August) – Police officials here dismissed the possibility that an alleged death squad could be behind the spate of killings in the city in the past several months. Senior Supt. Cedric Train, acting city police director, said Wednesday the results of their investigation showed that there has been no pattern in [...]

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/4 Aug) — Gunmen shot and killed a provincial prosecutor while he was talking to an associate during a routine jogging exercise in Iligan City this morning, police reports said. A policeman checks on the site where Prosecutor Makadatar Marsangca was shot to death at the Pryce Property in Iligan City Wednesday morning [...]