BY JHONG DE LA CRUZ (Bulatlat.com) Signs that Sulu is now on the way to recovery and development are yet to come, with random bombings and killings devastating this war-torn Southern Mindanao archipelago. “Unless the government begins reviewing its security policies and stop its overblown war against terrorism, Sulu will remain in its current state,…
Month: June 2006
Journalists’ Group Calls on Colleagues to Fight Back
BY ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO (Bulatlat.com) Fight back! This was the call of the group National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), one of the country’s biggest groups of journalists, as it lamented government’s “lameduck” effort to curb the killings of journalists. Fight back! This was the call of the group National Union of Journalists…
Tagaytay 5: Adjusting to ‘Unimaginable’ Life
BY DENNIS ESPADA (Bulatlat.com) “Medyo bagong karanasan pero obligadong matutunan (It is a rather new experience and I’m obliged to learn it).” This was how 34-year-old poet Axel Alejandro Pinpin described his 30-day ordeal under police custody. “Medyo bagong karanasan pero obligadong matutunan (It is a rather new experience yet I’m obliged to learn it).”…
Cover-up
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Business World Bulatlat.com At this point it should be obvious that what the Arroyo government is engaged in is another massive cover-up, this time, of official sanction for extrajudicial killings of progressives, activists and their supporters. The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) position on the spate of killings of members and officials…
Abductions, Torture, Killings and Lies: All in a Day’s Work for the Mercenary AFP
BY DEE AYROSO (Bulatlat.com) It’s now mid-2006, and the killings and abductions, as well as the AFP and Malacañang’s lies have yet to stop. In March 1989, Honor Ayroso, then a 21-year-old leader of the League of Filipino Students, was abducted. That week, nine other activists from Nueva Ecija also went missing. The 10 were…
Sorsogon Provincial Board Condemns Political Killings
BY ANGEL AYALA (Bulatlat.com) In a recently-passed resolution, the Sorsogon provincial board stated that the political killings in the said province have already reached “horrific proportions” and that it has “sent fear” among Sorsogueños, “whose character were inherently God-fearing and peace-loving and has been subsequently besmirched.” The provincial board of Sorsogon (604 km. south of…