Posted in Vantage Point on August 6th, 2003 No Comments »
Nothing makes anything less reassuring than a government announcement. And President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s saying last week that she will not declare martial law has provoked speculations that she just might do that. I don’t think she will. But I do think the “state of rebellion” declaration can be used as a net to catch anyone the government says was involved in the July 27 mutiny.
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Posted in Vantage Point on August 4th, 2003 No Comments »
The Filipino people have problems with the military that’s not limited to the putschist tendencies of, it seems, many of its officers and men.
There are also the problems of corruption which not only Sunday’s mutineers exposed, and which investigation by journalists’ groups like the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and the magazine Newsbreak have validated. It is also generally conceded that the Philippine military has an extremely limited capacity to defend the country from external threats.
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