In schools that served as polling centers here, soldiers from the 25th Infantry are observed to have stayed nearer, less than five meters, to be exact.
Tags: Militarization in the Philippines
More killings feared in wake of Aquino’s support for paramilitary deployment in mining areas
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
“The government remains blind to everything except the money that it gets from the mining firms – but this money is tainted with our blood; and no amount of money can ever compensate for the loss of our slain tribal leaders who fought for our rights to our own lands.”