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The Philippine Senate passed resolution 642 declaring every 23rd of November as a National Day to End Impunity. November 23 is the anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre that saw 58 people being killed.
Continue Reading →Some lives, you see, are perfectly expendable. We don’t have to live all the way in Mindanao to know this. We witness it every day, in the daily commute to work. Some lives are not as important as others and so it is perfectly normal for us [...]
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Two years ago, 58 people were brutally killed in the province of Maguindanao. It doesn’t matter whether 32 journalists were included in the massacre. Their murder was political. It was brutal, and unthinkable. And it was mass murder that shattered talismans.
Continue Reading →In seeking closure to the 2004 and 2007 elections, which type of book (history or law) should be thrown at the fraudsters first?
The truth has a funny way of coming out regardless of how it is suppressed.
After years of hiding and running from the law, [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been a year since 58 people were killed in Ampatuan, Maguindanao and yet despite the short span of time, the memory of the gruesome events of that day seem to slowly slip into oblivion from the Philippines’ collective memory.
In a forum held last week [...]
Continue Reading →Official statement of Senator Benigno S. “Noynoy” Aquino on the declaration of martial law in Maguindanao, December 5, 2009
Manifestation of Sen. Benigno S. “Noynoy” Aquino III at the joint session of Congress on martial law, December 14, 2009
BSAIII speech at the celebration of the 24th anniversary of the People Power Revolution, February 25, 2010, at the Araneta Center
Transcript of the Speech of Senator Benigno S. “Noynoy” Aquino III Before Filing His Certificate of Candidacy for President (November 28, 2009)
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