What independence? (Photos by Ace R. Morandante / Bulatlat.com)
Day: June 13, 2012
Youth activist tortured by soldiers in Quezon
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – An 18-year old youth activist was nabbed allegedly by soldiers in Lopez, Quezon and tortured into admitting he is a member of the New People’s Army (NPA), according to human rights group Karapatan-Southern Tagalog. Franklin Barrera, district coordinator of Kabataan partylist, was taken by armed men at around…
Aquino slammed for kowtowing to US plan to project military might in Asia
By MARYA SALAMAT
What Aquino calls as “new juncture” in Philippine relations with the US revolves chiefly on the Philippine role in maintaining the Pacific as an ‘American Lake.’