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It
could be ominous that in Pampanga, home province of
GMA, a reluctant "man of the cloth," Father
Ed Panlilio - won the top secular post Governor - against
the president's two candidates: one a quarry prince,
the other a jueteng queen.
Even
if the winning margin was by a whisker, the brave people
of Pampanga, chose the clear moral alternative to incumbent
governor - actor Mark Lapid (whose family regime cannot
allegedly account for P500 million of quarry payments)
and Board Member Lilia Pineda, whose husband (Bong)
is largely known as Central Luzon's jueteng king.
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Just
Before Deadline
Protest
against political
slays greets GMA in Japan
JAPAN. Human rights groups
based here gathered for a candle light protest in front
of the Philippine embassy in Tokyo yesterday to protest
the hundreds of execution-style killings carried out
in the Philippines and demanded that the perpetrators
be punished.
Offering
flowers and putting up pictures of the many victims
suspected political killings, the protestors called
on Japan to push visiting Philippine President Arroyo
on human rights issues.
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