A recent text message has recently been circulating warning of another bombing. The gist of the message goes like this: MILF are planning to bomb schools in Iligan. The first school to be bombed would be MSU-IIT. In other news, A 71 year old man, a victim of the ongoing battle in Kolambugan has arrived [...]
Online news haven’t picked this out yet, but at least two municipalities in Lanao del Norte have been captured by Muslim MILF rebels. Kolambugan’s Central School has been torched. Hostages, all of them Christian, have been lined up by the rebels to stand on the edge of the highway. Houses in Kauswagan are burning. People [...]
Several bombs have just exploded in Iligan. Of the 7 rumored to blow up, 2 have been reported so far to have succeeded in blowing up budget hotels in the city. I don’t know what the current situation is. The radio stations have signed off. Local and most international channels from our Cable operator have [...]
Last I heard, 4 bombs have just exploded in Iligan. The first one blew up this afternoon on 5:45 pm. It was followed by 3 more as of 8pm. People here, however, are not that surprised. Text messages warning Muslims from visiting certain places had been circulating since about 2 weeks ago. Somehow these messages [...]
The average resident of Iligan (Iliganon) doesn’t know that one of the major personages in the consultations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) a fellow Iliganon. He goes by the name of Prof. Rudy Rodil. Currently, however, Iliganons who know about his part in [...]
So the Supreme Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against the supposed signing of the government vs. MILF rebel Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that would give legitimacy to a new state called the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE). Strangely, the MILF website apparently knew of the decision beforehand because it suddenly showed that the signing [...]
I predict chaos should the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels ensues on August 5. They are planning to create a Muslim state claiming this contains “ancestral domain” inside the country, in effect giving up sovereignty on Philippine soil. I believe they are also [...]
We have been sold to rebels! Secretly, the President brokered a deal with Muslim rebels and has granted them land. The deals were so secret that I’ve just heard that 3 barangays in my city, and about 3 municipalities in my province have been included in the deal. Yet those are only small cuts of [...]
Photo of a tartanilla* dressed up with national colors. I’m a few days overdue, but considering what our President has done to mangle up our calendar, I guess my greeting of a Happy Independence Day would still be appropriate for now, or not. I’m not a political activist. I’m not even close as a nationalist. [...]
Last post, I wrote about the crosses that dot the roads of Northern Mindanao. I saw one of these crosses a few days ago. This cross was relatively larger than the other ones I had seen before. Time-darkened blood encrusted around it. Rumor had it that the victim was a man in his 30s. He [...]
