By taking the slower tack of forming a truth body, the pursuit of accountability with respect to the crimes of graft and corruption linking the previous regime has been entrusted to the constraints and weaknesses of the country’s justice system. By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA) Center for People Empowerment in Governance December…
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Salungguhit: Strike Two
Strike Two
Aquino Should Show Real Resolve in Going After Arroyo
PRESS RELEASE Dec 8, 2010 It’s still Aquino’s call. The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today called on the Aquino administration to show real resolve in going after former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the face of a Supreme Court decision voiding the Truth Commission tasked to investigate the former president. “At the end of…
Salungguhit: Circuitous Road to Justice
Circuitous Road to Justice
CenPEG | Judicial Revolt and Aquino’s Mispriorities
The judges’ threat to stage a “revolt” and resign is not just a reaction to poor priorities set in the national budget. It is indicative of dissatisfaction that has started to build up against a wavering and compromising presidential leadership and at slim prospects of seeing reform being undertaken under Aquino III. By the Policy…
CenPEG | The Truth Commission: Will Justice Be Served?
By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Posted by Bulatlat.com President Aquino III’s move to form a Truth Commission that will investigate Gloria M. Arroyo’s alleged wrongdoings committed in nine years of her presidency raises public expectations way above government’s ability to meet. Right now, there are courses…
Truth Commission Criticized as Limited, Toothless
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“There could be no reconciliation without justice,” President Benigno Aquino III declared during his inaugural speech. But the means by which he intends to run after the former Arroyo administration, the Truth Commission, is being criticized by progressive groups for being a dud.
Related story: Truth Commissions, a Failure in the Country, Successful in Other Countries
Truth Commissions, a Failure in the Country, Successful in Other Countries
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – President Benigno S. Aquino III issued his first executive order creating the Truth Commission to investigate cases of corruption during President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s nine-year rule. What have the previous commissions created by the government achieved so far? How do these compare to the truth commissions in other…
Aquino’s Truth Commission has holes to serve as Arroyo’s way out–CPP
Press Release The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today questioned the newly formed Truth Commission’s ability to investigate and prosecute Gloria Arroyo for grievous crimes committed during her rule. Said the CPP, “there are serious doubts on whether the commission will be able to effectively and decisively address the Filipino people’s widespread clamor to…
Solon Tells Truth Commission to Hold Office at Batasan; Offers Own Room if No Space Available (PR)
Press Release 2 August 2010 Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today asked House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte to host the newly-formed Truth Commission tasked to ferret out the truth with regard to the abuses committed by the previous regime. The youth solon today filed House Resolution 125 recommending the use of available office spaces and conference…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Smoke and Mirrors
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise Posted by Bulatlat.com “Pnoy the Magician” in bright yellow. This was how activists depicted President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino in effigy in last Monday’s annual State-of-the-Nation street demonstration. They were proven prescient in more ways than one as soon as Mr. Aquino started delivering his SONA that turned out to be vintage…