MANILA — Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno and his family thanked those who sympathized with and comforted them days after their mother Narcisa, 92, passed away at the Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City last April 25.
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Poster Child. Gregorio Galacio, the father of Grecil Buya, the nine-year-old New Bataan girl accused by the military of being a child combatant, talks to the press in Manila, where he and his wife Virginia Buya, right, earlier filed complaints against the soldiers who killed Grecil during a firefight with guerrillas on March 31. International human rights groups, including one from Japan, have denounced her death, calling it an atrocity that is connected to the Arroyo regime’s war on terror that have allegedly victimized civilians. (Photos courtesy of arkibongbayan.org)
SPARE RELIEF OPERATIONS FROM ELECTION INTERESTS, CEASEFIRE NOW!
?From war zone, to economic zone? is the official slogan of the Province
of Sulu.
But it is ?back to war zone again?– that is how civil society describes
the situation in Sulu today. In this tiny, but perennially embattled
island, what is abnormal has become normal. Community life is permeated
with insecurity, suspicions and violence. And with over fifty thousand
evacuees now rendered homeless because of the renewed fighting between the
military and the Moro National Liberation Front, Sulu is embroiled in a
humanitarian quagmire.
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The peace agreement might be up for review in a meeting organized by the Organization of Islamic Conference in July.
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By Germelina Lacorte
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DAVAO CITY — World Bank-led development projects are already being carried out in conflict-affected areas in Mindanao even as the government?s stalled peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Malaysia have yet to resume.