This is what many of us are afraid of: “…constitutional law expert and Ateneo Law School dean emeritus Fr. Joaquin Bernas said that the government has a big job ahead in proving that the murder cases against Ampatuan Jr. are not connected to the alleged rebellion in Maguindanao. Bernas said that if the Maguindanao massacre [...]
I had wanted to keep this weekend light for JamBayan, but the developments in Maguindanao dashed all hopes of that. I got wind of the declaration of martial law in Maguindanao Province around 1:15 a.m. on December 5, and even though it was an ungodly hour I sent a text to Secretary Jesus Dureza, Presidential [...]
Let me express my deepest condolences to the families of media colleagues who were killed in last Monday’s massacre in Maguindanao. It was a crime that attacked not just the journalists but our very Constitution itself; as the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) put it, the Maguindanao carnage “strikes at the [...]
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