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(Eagle News)– Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday, Aug. 30, expressed support for martial law in Mindanao, after the Palace floated the possibility of extending the same following the blast in Sultan Kudarat that killed at least three people. “I support martial law in Mindanao,” she said. She said she supports “what the President does because I’ve been President and I believe that he (President Rodrigo Duterte) doesn’t need a peanut gallery to tell him what […]
(Eagle News) — Tuesday’s bombing in Sultan Kudarat is proof that “neither martial law nor the Bangsamoro Organic Law could guarantee peace in Mindanao,” Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Thursday, Aug. 30. As such, Lacson said the National Security Council and ground security forces should “take a hard look at their security plans and strategy, especially in the South, and try to avert the vicious cycle of talking peace with one tribal group while alienating the others.” […]
(Eagle News) — Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea on Wednesday, Aug. 28, said extending martial law in Mindanao was an option following the blast in Sultan Kudarat that killed two and injured over 30 others. “It’s an option, but nandiyan ‘yun,” Medialdea said at the House of Representatives when asked if making the extension was a possibility. Martial law in Mindanao will lapse on December 31. “We’re trying to make it as easy as possible na […]
(Eagle News) — Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on Wednesday, Aug. 25, said the decision to extend martial law in Mindanao following the deadly blast in Sultan Kudarat was left to the military, the police and Malacanang. “We follow the decision of the OP (Office of the President), AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines and PNP (Philippine National Police) because they are better informed by the intelligence units on the need to extend martial law […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, June 7, denied he had plans of imposing martial law in the country. Duterte made the remark amid speculations over his comment he would resort to “radical” measures to arrest rising criminality. “Martial law is not feasible. It won’t work. It’s going to divide the nation. [I] might think of something else,” he said. He noted that when martial law was imposed by then-President Ferdinand Marcos, “what […]
(Eagle News) — Naniniwala ang Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) na hindi pa napapanahon na alisin ang martial law sa Mindanao, isang taon mula nang maganap ang Marawi siege. Ayon kay AFP Chief of Staff General Carlito Galvez Jr., hindi pa kailangang alisin ang Martial Law hangga’t hindi pa nahuhuli ang mga natitirang rebelde at nakukumpiska ang mga loose firearm. Sa ngayon, nasa 6,000 iligal na armas pa lamang ang naisusuko sa kanila, at […]
(Eagle News) – “Martial law in Mindanao should not be lifted.” The chairman of the crisis committee in Marawi City, Assemblyman Zia Alonto Adiong, made this clear in a phone patch interview over Net 25’s Agila Balita on Thursday, May 24, amid calls from human rights groups for the declaration to be lifted. The calls made by groups such as Karapatan were made a year after Marawi City was attacked by members of Maute and Abu […]
(Eagle News) — The Marawi City government is planning to pass an ordinance to ensure that the lessons from the Marawi siege will not be forgotten. “Iniisip naming maganda itong tiyempo every year, na maisapuso sa mga tao ang kahalagahan ng kapayapaan,” Task Force Bangon Marawi Field Office Manager Assistant Secretary Felix J. Castro, Jr.Assistant Secretary Felix Castro said in a press conference on Wednesday, May 23. His announcement came on the same day members […]
(Eagle News) — Malacañang on Thursday summoned United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim over the US intelligence report that cited President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war and his pronouncements on the revolutionary government and nationwide martial as “regional threats.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Executive Secretary Medialdea has also instructed the Department of Foreign Affairs, through the Philippine embassy in Washington D.C., “to coordinate and engage with the US agencies involved in the writing […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte “adheres to the rule of law and remains loyal to the Constitution.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the statement after the United States Intelligence Group described some of Duterte’s actions–his war on drugs and pronouncements on a revolutionary government and nationwide martial law— as “regional threats” in its Feb. 13 Worldwide Threats Assessment report. Duterte, who has said he would step down once a federal type of government was in […]
(Eagle News) — Voting 10-5, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the year-long martial law extension in Mindanao, saying that the court “finds sufficient factual basis” for the decision. The high court also dismissed the consolidated petitions that questioned the constitutionality of the decision by Congress that had earlier voted for the extension of martial law in Mindanao until year-end. According to the high court, Congress had sufficient factual basis when it approved […]
(Eagle News) — Solicitor General Jose Calida on Saturday argued there was basis for the extension of martial law in Mindanao precisely because a “rebellion” continued to exist there even after Marawi was declared liberated from the clutches of terrorists. In his 63-page comment on the four petitions filed questioning the constitutionality of the extension, Calida said the Supreme Court itself has already said in Lagman v. Medialdea that “there are other rebel groups in Mindanao […]
