The idea of terrorism is extended to several forms of social fight and protest. Dissident political and trade union opinions become criminalized. An environment movement such as Greenpeace or animal rights activist is even prosecuted as terrorist in some countries. Lawyer Raf Jespers of the Progressive Lawyers Network, Belgium, made these arguments during a forum of international lawyers in Davao City last month.
More than three years after he was abducted by hooded men in front of his welding shop in Maa, Sabdurah Abdullah Ala remains missing. It took a while for his devastated family to recover from the shock and grief. But today, they honor and remember him by fulfilling his dreams and wishes. And they?re still praying for him to finally come home. Davao Today’s Grace S. Uddin reports.
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The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has appealed on the different sectors in Mindanao to be vigilant, as a ?third party? may sabotage the volatile situation in the southern Philippines due to the a breakdown of the peace negotiations between the front and the government. Davao Today’s Keith Bacongco reports.
Contrary to the Arroyo administration?s claims that the peace process between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is progressing, the Moro group today lambasted the government for ?offering…
This has been the question nagging me for days now as I follow the story of an anti-terror expert who ran an experiment of bringing explosive materials and who passed through the security personnel of an airline carrier and two major airports in the country, airports that had, in the past five years, survived bombing attacks from ?terrorists.?
The authorities, from airport security to Davao City officials to Malaca?ang, are after the head of Samson Macariola, the anti-terror expert who showed to a journalist his feat of testing the security measures of the airline and the Manila and Davao airports by carrying real explosives and assembling them inside the airplane.
