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UBC students outraged by Marcos burial

The UBC Philippine Studies Series will be hosting a Pabasa Para sa Mga Pinatay ni Marcos (Prayers for Those Killed by Marcos) on November 21, Monday, 5pm at the UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues. Please wear black and bring candles. Bring your outrage! Watch out for more details. #marcosNOTahero. The traditional ‘Pabasa’ is usually […]

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Nagbalimbing: Communists’ Joma Sison flip-flops on Marcos burial

Communists now criticize Marcos burial By Ted Alcuitas After defending President Duterte’s approval of the Marcos burial, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria ‘Joma’ Sison is now criticizing the president’s move saying” it will now have an impact on the talks because of how “Duterte and the Armed Forces of the Philippines

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The Marcos enigma

5 questions on the dictator Ferdinand Marcos ABS/CBN News Nov 08 2016 The late dictator Ferdinand Marcos still casts a huge shadow over the Philippines, three decades after a “People Power” revolution ended his rule. Here are five questions and answers about Marcos and his family, after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday he could

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SC verdict on Marcos burial: ‘Not a surprise’

Rappler: Newsbreak SC verdict on Marcos burial: ‘Not a surprise’ Posted: 07 Nov 2016 11:46 PM PST MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court on Tuesday, November 8, voted 9-5 to allow the burial of ex-president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. The SC ruled, among others, that the late dictator can be buried

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‘Our protests will hound Marcos to his grave’—Bayan

SC OKs Marcos burial at Libingan Inquirer November 08, 2016 Militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) on Tuesday said it cannot accept the decision of the Supreme Court giving the green light to a hero’s burial for the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. said

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Manila Times exclusive: Marcos can find his final resting place

AT LEAST 8 JUSTICES EXPECTED TO JUNK PETITIONS VS ‘LIBINGAN’ INTERMENT SC to allow Marcos burial  BY JOMAR CANLAS, TMT  ON NOVEMBER 7, 2016 EXCLUSIVE The Manila Times A majority of Supreme Court (SC) justices are poised to reject the petitions seeking to stop the burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan

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Breaking: Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa killed in ‘firefight’ inside jail

INQUIRER.net / 07:34 AM November 05, 2016 Rolando Espinosa Sr.. JULLIANE LOVE DE JESUS/INQUIRER FILE PHOTO Updated 9:40 a.m., November 5, 2016 Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. was killed in a “firefight” after allegedly resisting arrest at the Baybay, Leyte Sub-Provincial Jail, early Saturday morning. A firefight between Espinosa and Raul Yap and the

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Duterte must play by a new playbook, says journalism dean

 Philippines ‘I Will Kill All the Drug Lords’ The making of Rodrigo Duterte By Sheila Coronel The Atlantic Sept. 20, 2016 “The Davao playbook no longer suffices. It’s time to write a new one,” writes Sheila Coronel in this analysis of who the real Duterte is. In the Philippines, the end of Ferdinand Marcos’s 20-year

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Breaking: Senator de Lima ousted as chair of Senate  committee on justice

SENATOR Leila de Lima was evicted   chair of the Senate  committee on justice and  was immediately replaced by  Senator  Richard Gordon, The Inquirer reports today (September 19). Gordon has earlier called for the suspension of the ‘writ of habeas corpus’. According to the report, it was Senator Manny Pacquiao, who made a motion on the  floor 

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Priest risks life to expose Davao killings

Web Journal of Fr. Amado Picardal, CSsR The Victims of the Davao Death Squad: Consolidated Report 1998-2015 “It could be chaotic. We could be entering another dark period of our history — like the dictatorial period in the past or worst.” I recently received a consolidated report of the killings perpetrated by the Davao Death

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