Politics

Destruction of Palm Oil Plantation in Monkayo a Punishment, NPA Says

April 18, 2007

Alejandro Lanaja Command
Front 3 Operations Command
New People’s Army-Southern Mindanao

Palm Oil Destruction a Punishment for Monkayo Mayor Brillantes’ Despotism

The tree palm oil plantation in San Isidro, Monkayo destroyed by the New People’s Army last April 15, 2007 is a sabotage operation meant as a punitive action against Monkayo Mayor Manuel Brillantes. Brillantes is a despotic bureaucrat aggressively pushing for his palm oil plantation interests in the area amid fierce resistance and growing complaints from local residents and leaders. Brillantes kills, harasses and intimidates the residents employing his death squads supported by the fascists 28th Infantry Battalion of the AFP.

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Philippines: Diversion of Intelligence Funds for Election Campaign Denounced

MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today denounced a reported order of
Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno
authorizing provincial governors and city/municipal
mayors to release and utilize intelligence funds from
their respective local budgets in excess of the limit
prescribed under the Local Government Code.

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Philippines President Incapable of Mounting Credible Campaign Against Corruption: Critic

MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today said the war against corruption
will continue to falter for as long as the country is
led by a president whose legitimacy is under question
and whose hold on power is shaky.

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Attacks on Leftists in Philippines Continue

MANILA — The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the ANAKPAWIS party list group condemned the latest attack on one of its leader in Central Luzon by forces of the military late last night as armed men looking for Ka Joseph Canlas, chairman of the ALyansa ng Magbubukid ng Gitnang Luzon (AMGL), a regional chapter of KMP and ANAKPAWIS-CL coordinator forcibly entered his home in Barangay Balite, Arayat, Pampanga..

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Philippines’s Arroyo Tells Asia Forum: Help Lift Up the Poor

BOAO, China (Via PLDT) — While expressing her bullishness in Asia?s future, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo challenged movers and shakers of the region Saturday “to use every tool available to lift up the poor,” in order to achieve equitable, sustainable growth.

In her keynote speech at the opening plenary session of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) at the main hall of the International Convention Center here, the President called on Asian countries to learn from other nations and create their own sustained path to development.

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