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State of Emergency; The Philippines (sp?)
Topic Started: Mar 1 2006, 01:15 PM (61 Views)
Gruenberg
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http://manila.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=6872

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A local newspaper was closed; peaceful protesters were violently dispersed, mass arrests of political dissent and curtailment of basic democratic rights were indiscriminately violated as President Arroyo proclaimed a State of Emergency yesterday afternoon.

Proclamation no. 1017 is a President’s declaration of State of Emergency that believed to be an order to take a direct totalitarian control to suppress political dissent against the regime. The proclamation was declared during the middle of commemorating the 1986 People Power anniversary after she assessed the national situation, saying that the Left, Right and Center is, "in tactical alliance and engaged in a concerted and systematic conspiracy to bring down the duly constituted government elected in May 2004."

President Arroyo was accused of rigging the 2004 elections that maintained her seat of power. She was also the sole authority who raised taxes of basic necessities, assassination of media persons and radical political personalities, cuddles gambling lords, and protects Military Generals who were accused of corruption. These acts of the President foiled unrest among the common masses, rank-in-file military soldiers and junior officers who called upon to oust her regime. Opposition politicians also joined the call to unseat the President from power.


I'm not posting this because it's especially interesting - it's not, and the SoE is likely to be lifted soon anyway - but more because I realized I hadn't noticed this for 24 hours. I always try to take in the 'world news', but I'm beginning to realize just how US-UK-EU oriented almost all the major news sources are.
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