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By CHIT ESTELLA
MORE than 3,000 military and police personnel have been accused of human rights violations since 2005, with a “very dismal” rate of conviction.

Photos by MARIO IGNACIO, CHIT ESTELLA and AVIGAIL OLARTE
MARKING the first year of the Ampatuan massacre, over a hundred journalists and militant groups on Tuesday marched to Mendiola demanding justice to the slain.

By CHIT ESTELLA
AN international human rights organization said Philippine government support for political warlords was responsible for the Maguindanao massacre and other blatant incidents of human rights violations committed by such forces.

By CHIT ESTELLA
MANY Filipinos might have been pleased with President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III’s performance in the first 100 days of his term—but not his former professor at the Ateneo de Manila University.

THE May 10 election was characterized by a “high incidence and widespread occurrence of technical and management problems” that tainted the integrity, credibility and accuracy of the automated election system.

BY CHIT ESTELLA THE Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) said yesterday it would consider asking the Supreme Court to compel the Commission on Elections and Smartmatic to produce documents and other materials needed to determine whether fraud and other irregularities have been committed in the elections. The proposal to apply for a writ

THE story of the Liberal Party (LP) is the story of traditional party politics in the Philippines. Founded on Jan. 19, 1946 by Manuel Roxas, the LP was the “Liberal wing” of the Nacionalista Party before it broke away from the older party. Roxas went on to become president of the republic and his story,

HE was born in Manila on Feb. 8, 1960, the third child and the only boy among five siblings. Raised in a family where politics was the major business and privilege the natural consequence of wealth, he went to school at the Ateneo where he finished a degree in Economics. Politics was not his first

THERE is a saying that goes: If you want to make God laugh, tell Him about your plans. If Manuel “Mar” Araneta Roxas II had told God about his plans, he must have made Him laugh. Roxas apparently wanted to join the world of business and finance. Born on May 13, 1957, he was schooled