Araw ng Dabaw 2007 Grand Parade: A Colorful Past
Star-studded. Actor Richard Gutierrez and members of the Sexbomb Girls during Saturday’s parade. Click here for more pictures. (davaotoday.com photo by)
Star-studded. Actor Richard Gutierrez and members of the Sexbomb Girls during Saturday’s parade. Click here for more pictures. (davaotoday.com photo by)
Analysis: A Curse to Democracy
Extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, political persecution, baseless accusations, and arbitrary arrest and detention have no place in a democracy. These are contradictory to it. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Norberto Gonzales, Raul Gonzalez, and the AFP cannot claim to be defending democracy, for they are a curse to it.
Kabataan Party Nominees Harassed by Military
Even the parents of nominees of progressive party-list groups are not spared of the harassment directed against them. Last March 13, the father of Kabataan Party?s second nominee and National Capital Region (NCR) chairperson Enrico Almonguerra received a letter from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) summoning him and Enrico to the Civic Military Operations (CMO) headquarters in Fort Bonifacio on March 22. This is not the first time that the youth party-list group?s nominees experienced harassment from the military.
AFP Uses ‘Recyled’ Skeletons in Case vs Satur
The seven bodies found in an alleged mass grave in Inopacan, Southern Leyte, which were presented in the multiple murder case against Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo, Jose Ma.Sison, Luis Jalandoni, Vicente Ladlad, Rafael Baylosis, Randal Echanis and several others, have already been buried and used in a case somewhere else.
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Witness in Murder Case vs. Satur a Desaparecido
She bore him for nine months in her womb. But Casimira Roluna, 78 years old, a resident of Brgy. Cabungaan, Baybay, Leyte, has not seen her son for nine months now. Her only proof of life was the news she heard over the radio last March 7, 2006 that her son, Glecerio Roluna, 48, is one of the witnesses being prepared by the military for the multiple murder case filed against Bayan Muna Party (People First) Representative Satur Ocampo, Jose Ma. Sison, and several others.