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On Sept. 14, residents of the Bangsamoro in the southern Philippines will elect regional parliamentary representatives. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Georgi Engelbrecht explains the importance of this step in the peace process between the national government and ex-rebels in the region.
The prosecution and counsels for victims in the case of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte asked the International Criminal Court on Sept. 10 to dismiss the request of the defense lawyer to order them to refile the charges saying it is “unfounded.”
When her son, Lester, told her that he was going to have a haircut because he was going back to school again, never did Anna Ramos imagine that, that would be her last conversation with him.
As BARMM enters its historic first parliamentary elections, thousands of police and military forces have been deployed across the region in order to ensure a “safe” election season. However, public safety may not be so easily achieved since, as Sandatahang Dahas data has shown, state agents themselves are often the perpetrators of violence–even against their own.
In a statement released on Sept. 8, Duyog Bangsamoro, an independent multisectoral alliance of regional and national civil society organizations, noted a “persistent perception” on the ground regarding the national government’s meddling to influence the outcomes of BARMM polls and the “region’s political landscape” post-election.
COMMENTARY: What we need for the long haul: Pass the National Cybersecurity Agency and Critical Information Protection Bill now.But do not, under any circumstances, place it under the administrative control and supervision of the DICT.
The ninth week of Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial ended with an important question still hanging over the prosecution’s case: Where did the P15.54 million in the Department of Education’s confidential funds go, and who is responsible for claiming that the money paid for activities that the Philippine Army said it funded itself?
Mariza managed to buy a new barong for Darwin before he was placed in a casket. “Sabi ko hindi ko pasuotin ‘yung anak ko ng luma ‘kay last chance ko nang mabilihan siya ng damit.”
Over three days —the 17th, 18th and 19th days of the trial — the testimony from two ranking officials of the Office of the Vice President pointed to Duterte and her former security chief, Col. Raymund Dante Lachica, as the two people with the clearest knowledge of how the funds were handled and spent.
COMMENTARY:I am asking — I am telling — that we break it now, while the train is still approaching, on schedule, with a hundred lights visible to anyone willing to keep watch and stop the run and put a single honest hand on the lever.
