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Over the years, Bulatlat interviewed many activists who fought the Marcos dictatorship. Here are just five of the most powerful testimonies. “Every night they took 10 men, made them dig their graves, then shot them dead. Every night they also took 10 women to the...
"This nation is run by the oligarchy. The oligarchy do not care about truth-telling. The oligarchy do not care about justice.”
“9-5-1 is a lie. We must stand up for the truth. And the truth is that Marcos does not deserve to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.” -- Edita Burgos
MANILA -- The Supreme Court has extended for the second time the status quo ante order (SQAO) temporarily stopping the plan to give the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos a hero's burial. The high court has extended the SQAO until Nov. 8. The petitioners were...
Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Philippine government’s Official Gazette’s social media post finally said in its third revision of the caption accompanying the late dictator’s Sept. 11 birthday photo, was “the longest serving President of the country for almost 21 years.”...
“The fact that it will reopen old wounds, isn’t it a continuity of impunity that the 1987 Constitution ended?” -- Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno
“Until now, we bear the trauma then we are told to forget about the past. What about us, the victims?”
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective When pressed about why he is allowing the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani despite the numerous protests, President Duterte justified his decision by saying: “He was a president...
“Only in the Philippines could a leader like Ferdinand Marcos, who pillaged his country for over 20 years, be considered for a national burial. Insignificant amounts of the loot have been recovered, yet his wife and children were allowed to return and engage in...
At the least provocation, but especially on two occasions every year, many Filipinos -- not all of them young -- lament the state of Philippine society. They cite the poverty that continues to haunt millions of Filipinos, the crimes and the impunity that have...
Two weeks ago in Dakar, Senegal a special inter-African court appointed by the African Union wound up the trial of Hissene Habre, the former president/dictator of Chad (1982-1990), for crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture. International legal observers...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- In line with women's month this March, women human rights defenders and victims of the dictatorship under the late president Ferdinand E. Marcos held a protest action urging senators to pass the Indemnification Bill for...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The accountability of the CHR and Attys. Swift and Domingo cannot be ignored.” – Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld SPEAKING AT a forum on the press and the media, former University of the Philippines president Jose V. Abueva said there were actually five Estates, or powers, in the Philippines. If the press is the Fourth Estate,...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld HE’S been dead for 22 years, having died in Honolulu, Hawaii on September 28, 1989 at the age of 72, but Ferdinand Marcos haunts us still. The most recent manifestation of the ghost of atrocities past came in the...
Marcos hero's burial: 'Distortion of history'
May 5, 2011 H.E. Jejomar Binay Vice President Republic of the Philippines Dear Vice President Jejomar Binay, Greetings from Tanggol Bayi, an organization of women human rights defenders in the Philippines! I wrote to express our organization’s strong and vehement...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld "Behind every great fortune," said the French novelist Honore de Balzac, "is a great crime." The Marcoses most certainly have a great fortune, estimated at somewhere between US$30 billion and $50 billion -- much of...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Out of the 9,539 original complainants in a class action suit filed against the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, only 7,526 victims would receive compensation. "Are they telling us that we are not genuine victims? Where is justice for us?" said martial-law victim Carlos Bolito, 60, after learning he was not included in the list of claimants.
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