Day: October 19, 2008


Coming to Light The day breaks elegantly upon a spot in Limay, Bataan that used to be part of a military camp. With such light cast upon it, this piece of land hardly looks like the suspected burial site for Manuel Merino, the farmer who was abducted in 2006 in Bulacan together with UP students Karen Empeño and Sh erlyn Cadapan. This scene however could also be taken to symbolize the event in which so many horrors are now being exposed to the light of day. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva/Bulatlat.com)

The family of Cecilia Armia Alcaraz who was sentenced to die by firing squad in Taiwan appealed for help during a press conference hosted by Migrante International October 17. In the same press conference, Ileno Terojas, uncle of Jenifer Bidoya, an OFW who was beheaded in Saudi Arabia, expressed their family’s frustration with the inaction…