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April 13, 2007
Political violence continues: Three activists leaders ambushed in Iloilo
Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo strongly condemned the ambush on three
Iloilo activists at 9:30 pm yesterday (April 12) that left one of them
seriously injured and two others missing.
PANABO CITY — About 50 families composed of more than 300 individuals fled their homes after a military air-strike hit Wednesday morning a banana plantation area in barangay Manay, this city.
About 15 kilometers from the poblacion, Manay was the place where the Philippine Air Force OV-10 planes dropped bombs at a banana farm where New People’s Army (NPA) rebels were seen hiding after their successful raid of a jail armory last April 8.
A lone gunman was responsible for the shooting rampage at an Army patrol base in Sulu province that killed nine soldiers and a civilian, the Chief of Staff, General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said.
Quoting initial findings of a military investigation, Esperon also said “no drinking spree and no mauling” preceded the carnage, contrary to some news reports.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) weeded out more than 1 million Filipinos from the list of voters in the May 14 midterm elections.
Comelec Commissioner Rene Sarmiento said the poll body was able to de-list a total of 1.13 million ?unscrupulous” voters, bringing down to 45.5 million the number of qualified voters for the May polls.
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12 April 2007
MANILA?The creation of a national committee that would assist the nation’s former armed rebels lead normal lives is vital to the overall peace process, the government’s top peace adviser said.
Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (PAPP) Secretary Jesus Dureza said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s signing of an Administrative Order creating the National Committee on Social Integration (NCSI) is essential to the search for a just, lasting, and sustainable peace in the country.