Tag: Andal Ampatuan

Aquino and De Lima responsible for delayed justice for Maguindanao Massacre victims

December 21, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

A photo of Andal Ampatuan Jr, who was recently convicted for the murder of 58 people in 2009 in what has since been dubbed the Maguindanao Massacre, flashing the “L” hand gesture has been making the rounds. The “L” salute, as most Filipinos know, signifies allegiance to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan and the partisan camps…

Crime, Media

There are worse people than Andal Ampatuan Jr and they are among us

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 benign0 10 Comments

Frankly I fail to be impressed by all the huffing and puffing about how “shocking” the massacre of 58 people is allegedly in the hands of warlord Andal Ampatuan Jr. I also fail to be impressed by the people who are grandstanding about calls for “justice” and close public scrutiny of (and the proposed televising)…

Crime, Media, Society

Court Dismisses Last Case Against Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 P. Farol 12 Comments

As if we needed more proof of just how inept and incompetent Pnoy’s administration was, here we have another court throwing out what is the last of the cases it had filed against Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Now, it becomes ever so clear that the previous administration’s cases against Arroyo was an evil to make themselves…

Politics

Torture and killings also happened after Martial Law particularly during the Aquino years

September 26, 2015November 17, 2021 Ilda 23 Comments

Every year during the anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law, a few articles come out from mainstream media reminding Filipinos about the “horrors” that came following its implementation by former President Ferdinand Marcos. I noticed that most of the articles describe the abuse perpetuated by the Philippine military or police back in the 1970s….

Crime, Government, Media, Politics

The Philippine ‘Opposition’: A movement in search of a credible cause

February 24, 2015 benign0 3 Comments

There used to be an old 1970s-1980s term often used to describe the “politically passionate”. Cause-oriented groups or COGs as they were once called was the collective term used for activists and rabble-rousers alike. They had real “causes” at the time — many of which were focused on achieving “freedom”, because Filipinos were supposedly not…

Crime, Development, Politics, Society

How lessons learned from #Hagupit can help deliver justice to the #Maguindanao massacre victims

December 9, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

Super Typhoon Hagupit (locally code-named “Ruby”) has come and gone, and many lessons have been learned. But the most important insight following this experience is quite tragic: that the thousands upon thousands of lives lost in previous years to typhoons were all preventable. The death toll in the aftermath of Hagupit’s visit to the most…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Philippines’ justice system on trial, President Aquino suppresses international inquiry

November 24, 2014November 24, 2014 benign0 15 Comments

What unfortunate timing. Just as the Philippines is under the microscope for its world-renowned snail-paced justice system and lack of overall transparency, its president, Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III, reportedly blacklists nine Hong Kong journalists from entry into the Philippines. The banning of the journalists is on account of how they allegedly “heckled President Benigno…

Crime, Government, Media, Society

The long-awaited Binay-Trillanes political cockfight: Place your bets!

October 30, 2014October 30, 2014 benign0 14 Comments

Filipinos are getting impatient. It’s been many days now since Vice President Jejomar Binay challenged his nemesis ‘senator’ Antonio Trillanes IV to a “debate”. And as the days wear on, the chances that this will actually happen get slimmer as both camps realise that this is likely going to turn out to be a battle…

Crime, Culture, Media, Politics, Society