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Ilocos Norte Rep. Roque Ablan has asked for an “objective” and “intelligent” discussion of his bill to declare September 11 “President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Day” in his province.

This request implies that opposition to his bill has been subjective and unintelligent. It is true that it is extremely difficult to be objective about the one single Philippine president who did more to ruin this country than all his predecessors (the jury is still out on whether his successors, especially the current one, can beat that record).
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The Report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission is all of five volumes, and published by the British publishing house Macmillan with an accompanying CD-ROM.

The report documents South Africa’s experience with apartheid, the policy that for 34 years kept the white minority in power over the black majority in that country through draconian national security laws and gross human rights violations.
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