A series of more recent development unfolded in Mindanao. First came the announcement of the resumption “Soon” of the formal talks (and the peace process) between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front as a cessation of hostilities is at hand. Then the continuing calls by civil society and peoples organizations ...
It must have been months ago since I last posted an entry here. In fact I came to a point of really being unmindful of my blogs. But once a blogger, always a blogger. And so here I am again not promising to return to active blogosphere citizenship but showing desire to return ...
A good read is what I consider Elson Elizaga’s piece on MindaNews about “Selling a Sacred Mountain”. There are similar cases of such situation in the province of Bukidnon. From my encounters with respected tribal leaders and elders, it is a long history of clans and tribes that determine what makes a ...
Reports from Manila-based media say the results of the 2008 Bar examinations will be released tonight. Congratulations to those who made it.Welcome new lawyers! May your flock help solve the problems of the country, help bring peace, justice, order, and progress to our land. For those who need to take it again, ...
What’s up about this painful ordeal? Hope-full stories I think are not of help. We feed on hard facts. We need to know the truth already. We had been kept hanging unfairly. Are they alive or not? We pray they are.
The two-day probe of the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights this week on the “summary executions” in Davao City in Mindanao reminds me of the investigations by Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in 2007. The inquiries is making waves about the killings not only in ...
The hearing being held by the Commission on Human Rights on the alleged summary executions in Davao City reached boiling point when Mayor Rodrigo Duterte was subjected to questioning by CHR chair Leila de Lima. Read this report by MindaNews’ Carolyn Arguillas. Both the interrogator and the one interrogated stood firm, as ...
