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By Raïssa Robles “The government has captured the hive but the angry bees have escaped and are regrouping to attack.” A Moro National Liberation Front official said right after the fall of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Camp Abubakar following President Joseph Estrada’s All-Out War in 2000 To get an estimate of the costs, let’s look at the [...]
By Raïssa Robles Sorry, I haven’t been able to blog. I’ve been busy chasing so many deadlines, so many forums, briefings and interviews. A case of information and coverage overload. Yesterday, especially, my schedule was INSANE. I had to get up before dawn to get to Resorts World across NAIA Terminal 3. No, not to gamble in , but to [...]
By Raïssa Robles How true are the Wikileaks cables? As an investigative reporter, I wanted to know. Here’s what I found. On November 30, 2006, South China Morning Post published an exclusive story I had submitted the day before, based wholly on my interviews with officials of the rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). It was entitled ”Suit-and-tie diplomacy woos [...]
Now his son wants to play there, too By Raïssa Robles Starting today Monday, as Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos tries to block a proposal to cancel this year’s Muslim Mindanao polls, it is a good time to remind Filipinos that Muslim Mindanao continues to be in a terrible state mainly because of his father, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos [...]
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