(Laywer Zainudin “Zen” S. Malang sent this “year-end confession” to his classmates at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law in December 2020, a copy of which he sent to MindaNews editor in chief Carolyn O. Arguillas after
MANILA (MindaNews /18 July) — I checked out his professional profile online to answer some of my nagging questions about the fellow. What I suspected was confirmed. There it was, it literally jumped out of my screen. It seems he
MANILA (MindaNews / 12 July) — Remember the Mandi Family? Six members of this family died in 2008 when an Air Force plane fir ed a rocket on the tiny row boat they were on as they were frantically making
MANILA (MindaNews / 28 May) — Moros need to go beyond issuing statements of condemnation. The reason why indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas, summary arrests, and summary executions continue is because Moros do not seem to know any response
As heartbreaking as news of his demise was, I still couldn’t help but smile while reminiscing about this fellow who recently left us. I can still picture him popping up at my office in the former MinHRAC (Mindanao Human Rights
This was 2014. I was on a road trip somewhere between Petra and the Wadi Rum in Jordan. I wanted to explore the countryside, clear my head, and try to figure out what I wanted to do next now that
We haven’t paid attention to the almost daily shootings in Cotabato until finally the victim is someone we know/knew. And then we start paying attention, and then we start condemning. These killings have been going on for years – in
I have been thinking why the news of the plane crash in Ethiopia and the deaths of aid workers among the passengers hit me so hard.
(MindaNews / 13 March) — Five years ago, my last mission in Mindanao before going on deployment in East Africa was to organize protection accompaniment for the return of thousands of civilians from several villages in Central Mindanao.
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 09 June) — Over the past decade and a half, I have seen a change in some of my colleagues in civil society. Perhaps it is fatigue on their part, hence, the willingness on some of
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 07 April) — Sapat ba na makonsulta ang LGU ng Marawi at Presidente ng Mindanao State University (MSU) para masabing mayroong konsultasyong nagawa ang Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM) lalong-lalo na sa residente ng Ground Zero?
AFRICA (MindaNews/14 February) — Bakit parang nasa same side si ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman at Moro Islamic Libreration Front nego panel chair Mohagher Iqbal? Hindi ba gobyerno si Mujiv at rebelde si Iqbal? This question must have crossed the minds
Dear Angelina, I am writing as one of your fans. I do admire your work, your on-screen work but more so your sincere contribution to highlight humanitarian issues. But please, when you do attend and speak at international humanitarian conferences,
MAKATI CITY (MindaNews/21 July) — His name is GabrieI. I passed him by on my way back to my tiny hotel room in Makati where I was planning to break my fast by myself. I had just left the Rustan’s
1st of three parts: A Failed Peace Agreement
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/26 February) — A few weeks from now, in early February, a tripartite meeting between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to sort out the problems in the implementation of the 1996 peace agreement between the two. The fact that this meeting has to be held only highlights the problem the 1996 peace agreement encountered in its implementation.
