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A DAYafter she was cremated, the ashes of veteran journalist and VERA Files trustee Chit Estella were brought to the College of Mass Communication in UP Diliman, where she served as a full-time professor since 2005.

May 16th, Arlington Funeral Homes, Quezon City

THE sudden death of Chit Estella on Friday, May 13th, has outraged many given the tragic manner of her passing. But just as her colleagues and friends mourn for the loss, they also remember with fondness the years spent with Estella, described by most as kind, courageous, and principled.

By YVONNE T. CHUA
CHIT ESTELLA and I were well on our way to obtaining tenure as professors of journalism at the University of the Philippines in Diliman when classes open this June. We had survived the university's dreaded "up or out" policy after graduating this month with a master's degree in public management from the UP Open University.

VERA Files announces with deep sorrow the demise of VERA Files co-founder and trustee Lourdes Simbulan. She was 54.

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