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BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS
FORMER state auditor Heidi Mendoza said she went to the hearing of the House of Representative committee on justice with only one purpose: to tell the truth of what she knows about the misuse of military funds when Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia was comptroller

By YVONNE T. CHUA and ELLEN TORDESILLAS
A FORMER state auditor who testified against ex-military comptroller Carlos Garcia disclosed over the weekend a “request” from a government office for her to tell the public the evidence in the plunder case against the retired major general is weak.
But the request, made about a week after the Sandiganbayan on Dec. 16 allowed Garcia to post bail on the basis of his plea bargain agreement with special prosecutors, has only strengthened Heidi Mendoza’s resolve to reveal what she says is “the truth behind the Garcia case.”

By TESSA JAMANDRE
WHILE many blame climate change as the cause of strange weather conditions that are adversely affecting agriculture, the Hanunuo Mangyans in Occidental Mindoro attribute it to the desecration of their burial grounds by Japanese looking for skeletal remains of countrymen who perished during World War II.