The military exerts control not only over the traffic of people but the flow of information, too.
‘Someone has to answer to this’ – Humanitarian mission questions military ‘fake news’ in Mindanao
Month: June 2017
‘Evacuees in Mindanao face miserable conditions’
By DANIEL BOONE Bulatlat Around 400 families cramped inside tight-spaced evacuation centers, with no electricity nor water supply. This is how delegates from a humanitarian mission described the situation of evacuees who fled from war-torn Marawi City. There are also few doctors and health workers to check the ill, the humanitarian mission report said. “Hindi…
‘Marawi will be truly flattened’ — Humanitarian mission airs people’s sentiments vs martial law, gov’t airstrikes in Mindanao
“Corpses of civilians litter Marawi City streets, unrecovered by families who were forcibly evacuated or driven out by fear of aerial strikes.”
The war that refuses to go away
It is a riddle why the thousands of AFP troops, with a tremendous amount of firepower, have not yet driven ISIS fighters away, much less neutralize them.
Imprisoned for half his life, activist has no regrets in taking up the cause
Former political prisoner Ronald Lucero has spent 17 years in jail, but he takes it all as part of the struggle.
Released after 32 years, ex-political detainee cries freedom for 2 kin still in detention
Charged with trumped-up criminal cases, Jose Ceriales has been in prison since he was only 22. He recently walked out a free man at age 54.
Black Friday protest | Manila students speak up for peace in Mindanao
“We have learned this from history: martial law did not bring peace.”
New Ched memo retains Filipino units in college – except for literature
Tanggol Wika demands that the agency issue another memo retaining Panitikan subjects.
Dances with waves
By MARY ANGELIQUE TACATA
OFW Jennifer Dalquez acquitted, saved from death row
Jennifer has been declared innocent without diyyah or blood money payment.
Snagged peace talks to continue in August
Yes…! The ball is rolling forward again, though slowly, for the GRP-NDFP peace talks. Both parties are moving cautiously but expressing determination to pursue and achieve their agreed-on targets, following the unprecedented progress racked up in the first three rounds of formal negotiations. As narrated in this space last week, the GRP panel interdicted the…