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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Mute on the massacre |
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NINE days have passed since eight soldiers and a
civilian were mysteriously killed in an army camp in Barangay
Silangkan, Parang, Sulu. “Mysterious” is an apt word because, to
this day, neither the Armed Forces of the Philippines nor the
Department of National Defense has released an official report on
the killings.
In the morning of Black Saturday,
at about 2:30 a.m., gunfire killed nine men at a camp housing
Charlie Company of the Philippine Army’s 35th Infantry Battalion.
The circumstances behind the deaths are very, very murky. Nobody,
except perhaps the AFP brass, knows what happened.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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POLICY PEEK
By Ernesto F. Herrera
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The case for Ang
Ladlad
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I AM disappointed with the
Commission on Elections’ decision disqualifying Ang Ladlad as a
party-list group seeking representation in Congress.
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EAST
AND WEST
ByJulius F. Fortuna
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For Rufus today,
politics is local
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Looking at the record of Rufus
Rodriguez—the youngest commissioner of the immigration bureau,
outstanding lawyer and former spokesman for the detained former
president—he should be running for a national office.
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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Don’t waste the
precious gift of life
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Life is so precious. It could be
snatched away any day when we least expect it. My late father
believed that disagreements and quarrels should be settled before
bedtime because who knows what tomorrow brings?
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MEN & EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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Politics of Greed
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After the May 14 election, we
should resume discussions about effecting changes in our
Constitution. But I am not referring to what the Sigaw ng Bayan has
been proposing:
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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When the US
sneezes, the world doesn’t care
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It used to be that when America
sneezes, the world catches a cold and the Philippines picks up
pneumonia. Not anymore.
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BIZZFIZZ
By Rene Martel
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BMW’s new point
man in the Philippines
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IT was less a baptism by fire and
more an anointment with vintage champagne when a select group of
business and motoring columnists (all in their best and most mellow
mode, we might add!)...
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China’s Yangtze
River in peril
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China’s longest and most
important river, the Yangtze, is under serious pressure from human
activity with long stretches of it in “critical condition,”
state media reported Sunday.
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