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, by DAVID Randy
PRESIDENT MACAPAGAL ARROYO’S Proclamation 1959 is the first time the martial law provision of the 1987 Constitution has ever been used. Compared to the 1935 Constitution under which Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972, the present constitution is stricter in its definition of the (…)
, by CARUMBA Amabella L.
The November 23 Maguindanao massacre have shaken many of us. I was in a place with the only access to the outside world is through a 2-channel television when the news of the carnage broke out. Thus, the magnitude of the incident only sinks in the next day when I read it on the papers. A (…)
, by Philippine Daily Inquirer
IN ITS ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY THE IMPOSITION OF martial law in Maguindanao, through the constitutionally mandated report it submitted to both Houses of Congress last Sunday, the Arroyo administration only succeeded in proving . . . a gruesome mass murder. Not an ongoing rebellion or a public (…)
, by CMFR, FFFJ, MindaNews, NUJP, PCIJ
Report of the Fact-Finding Team to Maguindanao of the FFFJ, NUJP, MindaNews, CMFR, PCIJ
Report of the Humanitarian and Fact-Finding Mission to Maguindanao
25-30 November 2009 - Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Center for Media Freedom and (…)
, by Philippine Daily Inquirer
THE MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE, a crime so horrific, so unspeakable that it led people to ask whether it was committed by animals or monsters, has its roots in four phenomena of Philippine politics and society.
The first is the rise of political dynasties which exercise great power and influence and (…)
, by MALAYA Gabrielle
Rumors about the declaration of Martial Law in the Province of Maguindanao have been circulating through SMS Friday night even before the government formally declared the imposition of Proclamation 1959. Among others, the imposition of Martial law in Maguindanao suspends the writ of habeas (…)
, by KAMLIAN Jamail A.
THE people in southern Philippines have grown wary of the political conflicts between the government and the various rebel groups because these have devastated the economy and hampered the region’s development.
The Mindanao conflict has become increasingly complicated because some armed (…)
, by ANDRADE Jeannette, ESGUERRA Christian V.
MANILA, Philippines—The indignation rally of journalists at the Chino Roces Bridge (formerly Mendiola) near Malacañang had an unwanted guest.
Press Secretary Cerge Remonde was heckled Monday when he was sighted by activists who joined hands with media workers in demanding justice for 30 (…)
, by de QUIROS Conrado
I do not just mean that in the sense that the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao was an event everyone knew would happen. That it was just a matter of time, place, and scale of atrocity. I mean that in a larger sense. In the sense that there was something inevitable about it, given the signal, (…)
, by DORONILA Amando
The government has come under fire from the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) for an “overly cautious response” to the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao as it attempted to reassert its authority over feuding warlords.
CHR Chair Leila de Lima found the arrest of the principal suspect, Mayor (…)
, by PCIJ
MANILA, Philippines—Thirty, and not just 27, reporters and media workers were killed in a manner brutal beyond description in Maguindanao province on Nov. 23.
Another journalist, Jolito Evardo of UNTV General Santos City, had not yet been accounted for as of press time.
The 30 media workers (…)
, by de QUIROS Conrado
I now believe Arroyo hired her spokespersons so she could have deniability. So she could always disown the thoughts and sentiments they ascribe to her.
Look how Lorelei Fajardo answered last week the question of whether her boss would continue to have anything to do with the Ampatuans. “I (…)
, by CRUZ Neal
DATU UNSAY MAYOR ANDAL AMPATUAN JR., now detained at the headquarters of the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila as the mastermind of the Maguindanao massacre, may be just a fall guy, or a sacrificial lamb. This was an opinion expressed by two prominent Muslim leaders, Amina Rasul and (…)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
Quezon City, 29 November 2009
As a peace advocate who has considered Muslim Mindanao as my second region (after Bicol), I join so many others in their shock at and condemnation what is now called the Maguindanao Massacre of 23 November 2009, likewise in expressing sympathies for the (…)
, by ARGUILLAS Carolyn O.
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao (MindaNews/28 November) – “Ampatuan Massacre” or “Maguindanao Massacre?”
Several national television networks and newspapers refer to the November 23 mass murder of at least 57 persons in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao by armed men believed led by Datu Unsay mayor (…)
, by ACERON Joy, LA VIÑA Antonio Gabriel
Violence in elections is a paradox. Election is supposed to be a peaceful means to resolve contestation for power, yet in the Philippines it has become a reason for the use of violence. It is supposed to be a means for consensus and to uphold the democratic rights of citizens to participate (…)
, by Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—This is what Francisco Lara Jr., writing for MindaNews , calls political families—like the Ampatuans. He says that causes of violence and conflict in Muslim Mindanao are going through some changes. There is a new breed of warlords, he says, “whose powers depend upon their (…)
, by ROSAURO Ryan
FOR its sheer brutality, the Maguindanao massacre on Monday is viewed as unprecedented in the history of political violence in the country.
But clan feuding, or more popularly known as “rido,” which is blamed for the mass killings, is a common occurrence in the social landscape of Maguindanao, (…)
, by DAVID Randy
MEDIA reports and analyses of the Nov. 23 gruesome mass murder of 57 innocent civilians in Maguindanao have highlighted different aspects of the culture of warlordism in Muslim Mindanao. Their common starting point is the rido, the clan wars that have persisted in many parts of Philippine (…)
, by MANGAHAS Mahar
WHAT is rido? “Rido refers to a state of recurring hostilities between families and kinship groups characterized by a series of retaliatory acts of violence carried out to avenge a perceived affront or injustice.” This is from the 2007 book “Rido: Clan Feuding and Conflict Management in (…)
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