Politics

The military’s victim?

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Jun 22, 2007


Activists and human-rights advocates stage a demonstration on San Pedro Street on Thursday to denounce what they claim as the government’s intensifying anti-insurgency campaign that victimizes children. The photo in the placard is that of Grecil Buya, the 9-year-old girl from New Bataan, Compostela Valley, who was killed in March during a military raid on members of the communist New People’s Army. Read the story (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)

Shepherding the flock for a better future

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Jun 20, 2007

Analysis | It takes more than a moral alternative and religious preaching to be able to take a gutsy position on big issues. The flock should be shepherded into the mass movement for social emancipation that has long taken roots.