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Vantage Point By Luis V. Teodoro BusinessWorld The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has once again ranked the Philippines third in its 2012 Impunity Index. The Index ranks countries all over the world on the basis of the level of impunity, measured as a ratio to population, of the killers of journalists and media workers in the previous year. Occupying the number one Read More …
By Malou Mangahas Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism JUST in the nick of time, a Manila trial court on Friday issued a new 20-day freeze order (also called provisional asset preservation order or PAPO) on over 200 bank accounts, 144 real estate properties, 110 high-caliber firearms, and 77 top-line motor vehicles of 30 Ampatuan clan members and their associates. The 33-page order signed by Executive Read More …
BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS MALAYA I hope doing things at the last minute is not SOP in the Aquino administration. It happened in the case of Gloria Arroyo when it took them one year and five months to file a case against her and only when there was a possibility that she would flee the country to avoid accountability. It happened again in the case of Read More …
Corporate Watch By Amelia H.C. Ylagan BusinessWorld “Maguindanao massacre trial could take 55,000 years,” a front page headline screamed for the intended shock effect. In simple arithmetic on convoluted logic, private prosecutor Harry Roque computed 196 defendants facing 57 cases each equals 11,172 cases, times 5 years trial per case equals 55,000 years. Stop the salivating — defendants and lawyers may not live for 20 Read More …
By Raïssa Robles RaissaRobles.com As my contribution to this day of remembering, I’d like to share with you all what I wrote two days after the Ampatuan massacre. I thought I had lost this piece forever when my original site went down due to hacking. Fortunately I found it again today. The post-massacre photos in this piece were taken and generously shared by Rolivel Elusfa. Read More …
“P50K Per Favorable Story Dangled Over Media” By Artemio A. Dumlao BAGUIO CITY — Families of the dreaded Maguindanao massacre were offered P25 million each for their withdrawal. “That sum of money is tempting especially that most of those killed journalists were bread winners,” Rowena Paraan, executive director of the International Federation of Justice Media Safety Office in the Philippines said ahead of Wednesday’s second Read More …
View from Malcolm By Atty. Harry Roque Jr. Manila Standard Today At 2:15 yesterday afternoon, 15 victims of the Ampatuan massacre filed a P15-million damage suit versus Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The victims had three causes of action: one, aiding and abetting the Ampatuans for the massacre; two, violation of their constitutional rights (the rights to life and freedom of the press of the victims); and three, Read More …
Source: The Nation MANILA (AFP) – Relatives of some of the 57 people killed in the Philippines’ worst political massacre sued then-president Gloria Arroyo on Tuesday for arming and supporting the alleged murderers, their lawyer said. The civil suit seeking 15 million pesos ($345,000) in damages will force Arroyo to fight another tough legal battle, after police charged her last week with conspiring to rig Read More …
Vantage Point By Luis V. Teodoro BusinessWorld The Roman emperor Nero was supposed to have fiddled while ancient Rome burned for nine days. But if he did play any instrument at all while much of the city was destroyed, he would have picked at a lute or a lyre, the fiddle, or violin, not having been invented until some 1,500 years after his reign. In Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star President Manuel Quezon had the right words for it when he said that: “My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.” That often quoted Quezon statement somehow fails to register with many Filipinos, many of them oddly trying to help improve our country and the economic conditions of Read More …