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COMMENT: A Dangerous, Costly Game (Part III: Divided)

12 November 2011

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COMMENT: A Dangerous, Costly Game (Part III: Divided)

By Patricio P. Diaz | Wednesday| November 9, 2011

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – President Benigno S. Aquino III thumbed down the all-out-war calls. He incurred severe criticism for that. But he held fast with the peace advocates even if outnumbered by the all-out-war radicals – Senate leaders among them. In an ambush interview at the MacArthur Memorial Park in Leyte last October 20 [posted in Official Gazette], he stated the position that must have incensed his critics:

COMMENT: A Dangerous, Costly Game (Part II: Two Reports)

12 November 2011

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COMMENT: A Dangerous, Costly Game (Part II: Two Reports)

By Patricio P. Diaz | Tuesday| November 8, 2011

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – With exception of few references to reports from Luwaran, the MILF official website, and to statements of top MILF officials, reports in national media had the military, Malacañang, Senate leaders, and Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process for their sources. This explains the slant of reports on the October 18 Basilan encounter.

COMMENT : A Dangerous, Costly Game

12 November 2011

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COMMENT : A Dangerous, Costly Game

By Patricio P. Diaz | Tuesday| November 8, 2011

Part I: Sacrifice of the 19

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Provoking, shooting, blaming each other – that’s playing a dangerous, costly game. The government and Moro rebel armed forces never learn. They had done it many times before. They have just done it again. And many in the country – particularly Manila – cried for blood. Foul! Murder! All-out-war!

Of failed states and sub-states, of ATS and other spaces

01 November 2011

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Of failed states and sub-states, of ATS and other spaces

By Soliman M. Santos, Jr.
Naga City, “All Saints Day,” 1 November 2011

Theirs[is] not to reason why.
Theirs [is] but to do and die.
-- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON,
The Charge of the Light Brigade

COMMENT: ‘Honestly Different’ V. Proposal to Move On

21 October 2011

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COMMENT: ‘Honestly Different’ V. Proposal to Move On

By Patricio P. Diaz | Friday| October 21, 2011 |

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Two weeks after MILF had spurned the “GPH ‘3 for 1’ Proposal” in Kuala Lumpur on August 23, the Government Peace Panel Chair Marvic Leonen and his team held press conferences and forums in Cotabato City and Davao City virtually challenging MILF: Let’s save the peace process.

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COMMENT: A Dangerous, Costly Game (Part III: Divided)

COMMENT: A Dangerous, Costly Game (Part II: Two Reports)

COMMENT : A Dangerous, Costly Game

Of failed states and sub-states, of ATS and other spaces

COMMENT: ‘Honestly Different’ V. Proposal to Move On

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