By RONALYN V. OLEA
Is a crackdown in the offing? Is this part of the operations that also include the filing of absurd cases against activists?
Break-ins targeting govt critics increasing
Day: February 19, 2013
Is the US Navy installing surveillance equipment, base near Tubbataha?
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The issue of Tubbataha again underscores the problems with the Visiting Forces Agreement. A crime was committed against our country and yet the Philippine government could not even conduct its own investigation of the perpetrators.” – Bayan
Rebel group hits military’s ‘bounty-hunting activities’
By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY—The Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF) criticized the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for making a fortune out of bounty for the capture of New People’s Army (NPA) members. In a statement sent through email, CPDF spokesman Simon “Ka Filiw” Naogsan accused the AFP of inventing positions for…
Groups assert killing of Dutch missionary politically-motivated
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The family and their counsel view the resolution, which ruled that the killing of Willem Geertman was a robbery with homicide case, as “incredibly detached and blindly oblivious to the relevant and material circumstances surrounding the cold-blooded murder.”