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Alexander Martin Remollino

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  • 2010 Poll Watchdog Urges People's Action in Worst-Case Scenario (Features)

    MANILA - A 2010 election watchdog group launched yesterday is geared not only to monitor the upcoming elections, but also to rally the public to respond accordingly should the electorate's will be frustrated.

    Kontra Daya 2010, which was launched yesterday morning in Intramuros, Manila, has this early raised several fears about the May elections. These include the possibility of massive fraud and failure of elections.

    By: Alexander Martin Remollino
  • Dam Nation: A Bloody History of Struggle Against Dams (Features)

    The construction of dams has always been opposed because of their destructive effects on whole communities. Several anti-dam leaders have been killed as a result. The recent devastation by the dams of Luzon proved that they were right all along.

    MANILA - Macli-ing Dulag is a prominent name in the history of environmental and indigenous peoples' rights struggles in the Philippines. He is widely remembered by environmental and indigenous activists for his leadership in the anti-Chico Dam campaign of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

    By: Alexander Martin Remollino
  • 10 Years On, VFA Only Served US Interests (Features)

    Has the VFA served its avowed purpose? Or has it only reinforced the unequal alliance between the Philippines and the United States, a relationship so tilted in the Americans' favor that to call the VFA a treaty - with all the word's connotation of equal rights, benefits and privileges - would be a travesty?

    MANILA - On May 27, 1999, the Philippine Senate passed the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the Philippines and the United States. Then president Joseph Estrada soon after signed the agreement.

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  • Dismantling Warlordism Key to Stopping ASG Kidnappings – Moro Leader (Bikol News, National News)

    The kidnapings by the Abu Sayyaf (ASG) seem unstoppable.

    A 2005 US Department of State report cites a number of major kidnappings by the ASG thus:

    In April 2000, an ASG faction kidnapped 21 persons, including ten Western tourists, from a resort in Malaysia. In May 2001, the ASG kidnapped three US citizens and 17 Filipinos from a tourist resort in Palawan, Philippines. Several of the hostages, including US citizen Guillermo Sobero, were murdered. A Philippine military hostage rescue operation in June 2002 freed US hostage Gracia Burnham, but her husband Martin Burnham and Filipina Deborah Yap were killed.

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