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                    [ArticleID] => 1869930
                    [Title] => CHR cautions on move to revive concept of 'Alsa Masa'
                    [Summary] => The Commission on Human Rights cautioned the Philippine National Police on possible abuses in its proposal to create a civilian network similar to “Alsa Masa” in the 1980s.
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-11-19 14:41:00
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                    [ArticleID] => 1496079
                    [Title] => Stop the killings
                    [Summary] => 

We’ve entered the first of the “ber” months. For the many who are holiday-obsessed this may evoke merry thoughts of bells tinkling, of gift-shopping, of Christmas approaching.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-04 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 910740 [Title] => Gun control, or son control? [Summary] =>

After the mass school shooting at Sandy Hook in Connecticut on Dec. 14, 2012, there has been much noise about guns in American society.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134178 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1215075 [AuthorName] => Cecile Lopez Lilles [SectionName] => For Men [SectionUrl] => for-men [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 703534 [Title] => The weak republic [Summary] =>

In the city that spawned the anti-communist vigilante group Alsa Masa, politicians know the value of a mailed fist.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 528631 [Title] => Just too many people running for president! [Summary] =>

We have to admire the courage of our good friend, Press Secretary Cerge M. Remonde when he went to the streets of Mendiola to sympathize with the thousands of rallyists from media groups and leftist organizations who were protesting the government’s supposed inaction on the Maguindanao massacre.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 461709 [Title] => Alcover in Congress: Watch out Rep. Satur! [Summary] =>

Congratulations to my good friend, Pastor “Jun” Alcover who is the latest Cebuano Congressman to take his seat of office.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 453684 [Title] => EDITORIAL - No room for death squads [Summary] =>

During the Marcos regime the Armed Forces organized paramilitary units and tapped civilian communities in the battle against communist rebels who were starting to overwhelm Davao City.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2223/startoonthumbl.gif ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 357646 [Title] => EDITORIAL – Winning hearts and minds [Summary] => The man dubbed "the butcher" by left-wing militants retired from the Philippine Army yesterday with the atrocities imputed to him largely unproven. Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan hung up his uniform with no visible regret for the methods he had employed to fight the New People’s Army. Instead he showed pride in his track record in counterinsurgency.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 314114 [Title] => Of course, the MILF, while we bleat about ‘peace’, prepares for war [Summary] => The usual members of the government’s Surrender Gang and the chief trumpeteer, Eid Kabalu of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, are denying the warning of Armed Forces Southern Command (Southcom) chief, Lt. Gen. Edilberto Adan that, while talking "peace" with our government, the MILF rebels have been recruiting and training 4,000 new cadres.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 272671 [Title] => The family that paints together [Summary] => At the Conspiracy Garden Café for the month of March until early April ran an exhibit of eight women painters, including the mother-daughter tandem from Davao, Tita Lacambra Ayala and Cynthia Alexander. Both are better known in their chosen vocations, Tita as writer and poet recluse extraordinaire, Cynthia as singer-songwriter and poet and part-time recluse. That both have chosen to return to an old love of painting, along Visayas Ave. [DatePublished] => 2005-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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