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How warlords are made NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 12/01/2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009


How warlords are made



NO HOLDS BARRED

Armida Siguion-Reyna
12/01/2009

I’m 79 years old, I’ve been through a war. I think nothing else can be more gruesome, and I am immediately proven wrong: Fifty seven are brutally slain in faraway Maguindanao, 22 of them women, 30 journalists. The women were raped, their genitals shot at. One is buried alive; she is later retrieved from the mass grave with fist still up in defiance.
For what crime?

Maguindanao is a fiefdom run by the Ampatuans .... MORE


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