PRESS STATEMENT
April 5, 2007
Palace, AFP finally admit roles in anti-Satur, anti-Bayan Muna drive
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita has finally admitted Malaca?ang’s
leading role in the fabricated charges leveled against Bayan Muna Rep.
Satur Ocampo and the campaign to crush Bayan Muna.
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the Games and Amusements Board (GAB) to make the promoters and managers accountable for the death of Filipino boxer Angelito “Lito” Sisnorio in a mismatch of a fight in Thailand recently.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Lenten Message, Heroes’ Hall, Malacanang, April 2-7, 2007
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MANILA — The clear indictment of the Permanent People?s Tribunal (PPT), which proclaimed the Arroyo government guilty of abandoning the poor due to its economic policies, should now push the administration to urgently address poverty.
DAVAO CITY — Karapatan-Southern Mindanao Region lambasted today the 10th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for sowing lies about the killing of a nine-year-old girl, Grecil Buya, claiming that she was a New People?s Army fighter who died in a clash last March 31 in Baragay Kahayag, New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province.