Archive for February, 2015

Yet still no peace, no progress for Moros By Charmaine P. Lirio IT WAS created to ensure that its peoples would no longer be left behind in development and that they would finally enjoy peace. Yet more than 25 years after its creation, the...

By Charmaine P. Lirio AS A SUSPENDED Director General of the Philippine National Police, did Alan L. Purisima have any authority or power to advise President Benigno S. Aquino III about the PNP-Special Action Force operation in Mamasapano,...

What senators and resource persons said at the hearings THE SENATE resumes today its investigation into the Mamasapano incident that led to the death of 44 members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force, 18 Moro Islamic Liberation Front...

WE are reblogging this article originally titled "Q and A with MILF Commander Haramen on Mamasapano: Walang eroplano, walang bazooka"  published on the MindaNews website on February 13, 2015. It includes a Q and A by MindaNews' Carolyn O. Arguillas...

By Julius D. Mariveles WITH seemingly unassailable certitude, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano proclaimed on Thursday what he deems to be the reason why peace has eluded Mindanao for ages. “Kung hindi kayo gumamit ng dahas, peaceful ngayon ang...

PRESERVE all physical and electronic evidence.  Document the stories of witnesses on ground and provide them protection. Appoint an independent panel of experts to conduct a thorough, objective, and "depoliticized" inquiry. To ferret out the...

THE Moro Islamic Liberation Front has published an editorial on its website about the encounter in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Forty-four members of the Special Action Force who were part of an operation to kill or capture Basit Usman and Zulkifli bin Hir...