Distorting history
Analysis | The president's offer of reconciliation was made at the wrong place, at the wrong time ? and by the wrong source.
The Right to Self-determination (a Primer)
Abhoud Syed M. Lingga, executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, presents this primer about the right to self-determination. “The essence of the Bangsamoro struggle for self-determination is the realization of their right to freely determine their political status vis-?-vis the Republic of the Philippines,” he writes. Lingga’s institute is a Cotabato-based think tank on Moro politics, history and culture.
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)
34 Years Since Martial Law, Despotism Still Reigns
The similarities of the atrocities during martial law and today are chilling. Hooded men knocking down doors and dragging out victims in the dead of night. Assassins on motorcycles. Killers shooting victims in cold blood, often in close range. Anguished relatives looking for answers and, most important of all, justice.
By Carlos H. Conde
davaotoday.com
MANILA ? Four years ago, Dee Batnag-Ayroso, a 37-year-old mother of two, lost her husband Honorio when gunmen abducted him. Honorio was never found. And much as Dee still wants to cling to the hope that he?s still alive somewhere, the continuing killings and abductions of Honorio?s fellow activists heightens her desperation.
Dee was in her home last month when she heard on the radio that Ernesto Ladica, a member of the leftist political party Bayan Muna, was shot dead while having coffee with his three sons outside their home in Misamis Oriental. Dee?s husband was also a member of Bayan Muna; many of the victims of these murders and forced disappearances were members and leaders of this group.
Davao’s Guardian of Memory
