Archive for July, 2003
War on Drugs, War on ”Terror”?
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recently came out with an accusation linking illegal drugs trade in the country to “terrorist organizations” – presumably referring to the New People’s Army (NPA) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. It is interesting to note that the U.S. is now aiming to merge its “war on terror” – which the Philippine president continues to support - with its “war on narco-terrorism.”
By Alexander Martin Remollino
Bulatlat.com
Children Paint for Peace on Kilometer-Long Canvas
By Eline Santos,
Inquirer News Service
‘Largest finger painting’
FROM thousands of young minds, thousands of ideas of peace.
Throngs of children on Sunday came to the renovated Baywalk area along Roxas Boulevard in Manila to paint their ideas on a kilometer-long canvas that organizers hoped would make it to the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest finger painting yet.
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Terrorizing the Talks
By Dennis Espada
People’s Media Center Reports
(Last of a Two-Part Series)
Analyzing the current prospects of the peace negotiations, Rey Claro Casambre, executive director of the Philippine Peace Center, expressed particular concern over President Macapagal-Arroyo’s “militarist” stance in dealing with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
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Peace Prospects Still Dim Under President Arroyo
By Dennis Espada
People’s Media Center Reports
(First of a Two-Part Series)
The number of human rights violations in the Philippines under the Arroyo administration have reached staggering heights. With the recent spate of attacks by the New People’s Army (NPA), President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recently ordered “optimum” military, political and diplomatic counterattacks on the NPA.
