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13 million activities? Drilon wants review of PNP’s NTF-Elcac funds after huge 2021 activity claim
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter /INQUIRER.net /November 11, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Senator Franklin Drilon has called for a thorough review of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) funds inside the Philippine National Police (PNP), after it was revealed that 13 million activities were done just in 2021. The…
Karapatan’s initial reaction on President Rodrigo Duterte’s 5th SONA
Mr. President, if indeed you do not evade your human rights obligations, why opt out of the Rome Statute when investigation on your alleged crimes against humanity was initiated? Why do you continue to malign and undermine United Nations Special Procedures who seek to visit and investigate the rights violations in the Philippines? Why did…
Bulatlat.com | Features | Nation | NewsIn one day, 4 farmers killed by suspected state agents
Photo of Zaldy Meraya after his house was riddled by bullets and killed by elements of the 20th IB. (photo from 20th IBPA Facebook account) “It is martial law without martial law, but worse: it is legalized butchery, targeting peasants and workers whose attempts to seek redress for their systemic exploitation have been criminalized.” By…
Ombudsman to defy Malacañang order to suspend Carandang
(UPDATED) Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales says the order is ‘not an inadvertent error but a clear affront to the Supreme Court and an impairment of the constitutionally enshrined independence of the Office of the Ombudsman’ Published 4:27 PM, January 31, 2018 Updated 7:50 PM, January 31, 2018 DEFIANT. Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales will not enforce…
‘Dapat mas matakot ang mga dapat managot’
Sa umano’y pananakit ng ilang fraternity sa UP… “Ang panawagan ng Engineering Student Council, kung tayo ay natatakot, dapat mas matakot ang mga dapat managot!” —Ralph Baguinon, Engineering Student Council, University of the Philippines-Diliman