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So You Think She Can Dance?
Whoa. What a week! So much has happened since Monday, August 11. And even more if we’d go back a week before that — before that fateful day that the “barely” existent Bangsamoro Juridical Entity MOA on Ancestral Domain (BJE MOA on AD) was TRO‘d by the Supreme Court. Discussions here and there, protests in…
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Where Do We Go From Here?
The situation in Mindanao seems to worsen by the day if not by the hour. It is clear to us that peace talks have gone completely out of hand, thanks to the bitter MILF renegade group. Just when we are ready to talk peace some self-righteous group whether from the government or from the MILF…
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The Case of the "Ex"
I dreaded writing or commenting about this. I knew a recurrence of hostility was possible in Mindanao even as peace talks are ongoing, but it never occured to me it will be this soon. As I was writing my last post “Winners and Losers“, I was oblivious of the brewing issue of evacuation in the…
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The Case of the “Ex”
I dreaded writing or commenting about this. I knew a recurrence of hostility was possible in Mindanao even as peace talks are ongoing, but it never occured to me it will be this soon. As I was writing my last post “Winners and Losers“, I was oblivious of the brewing issue of evacuation in the…
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Winners and Losers
I am moved to tears by a comment in Manuel L. Quezon III‘s article “The March of Folly in Mindanao” in his and John Nery‘s column “CURRENT” in Inquirer.net Blog. The commenter, known only as “lumad” had this to say: lumad Says: August 7th, 2008 at 9:01 pm Bilang isang lumad ng mindanao, matuloy man…
