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Month: December 2009

Two more Magdalo officers enter politics

Published by Ellen on December 1, 2009

Capt. Dante Langkit is running for governor of Kalinga and former Air Force Lt. Ashley Acedillo is a candidate for representative of the first disctrict of Cebu.

Dante fills up his certificate of candidacy accompanied by his twin brother, Danzel.
Dante fills up his certificate of candidacy accompanied by his twin brother, Danzel.
Langkit (PMA class ’95), who is detained at Fort Bonifacio, was allowed last week by the Armed Forces of the Philippines to leave his detention cell to file his certificate of candidacy.

Langkit is facing mutiny charges for allegedly planning to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo together with 27 other officers in February 2006 following the expose of the “Hello Garci” tapes which revealed that Arroyo used the military to tamper the results of the 2004 elections to her favor.

Thinking that they could break Langkit’s will, his custodians put him in a solitary confinement for 10 months, the longest that an officer was subjected to such harsh condition.Langkit held firm to his convictions.

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‘It’s like Rwanda’: UN expert on Maguindanao massacre

Published by Ellen on November 30, 2009

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Trillanes blames Arroyo for massacre

by Romel Regalado Bagares

COTABATO CITY.–Peruvian forensic anthropologist Dr. Jose Pablo Baraybar didn’t like what he saw when he visited for the first time Sunday the massacre site in Barangay Salman, Ampatuan town.

Take note of the backhoe with the marking 'Province of Maguindanao'
Take note of the backhoe with the marking 'Province of Maguindanao'
“It reminded me of something—it’s just like Rwanda,” said Dr. Baraybar after spending a few hours in the area in the company of Commission on Human Rights Chair Leila M. De Lima, British forensic investigator Chris Cobb Smith and lawyers from the Center for International Law (Centerlaw).

Baraybar said the “topography of the crime” in Ampatuan town is eerily similar to that he had found as a United Nations expert serving in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

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Desparada na si Gloria

Published by Ellen on November 30, 2009

Iba-ibang paraan ang sinubukan ni Gloria Arroyo para manatili siya sa kapangyarihan habang buhay.

Nandiyan yung charter change. Ipinasa ng mga tutal niya sa House of representatives. Hindi nakarating sa Senado.

May mga senyales na binalak niya ang martial law. Kaya ipinuwesto niya sa mga strategic na posisyun ang mga nasa PMA Class ’78, kung saan honorary member siya. Binalaan siya ng Amerika.

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