Planting Rice

My host mother could see me taking this picture on my way to their rice field house. She laughed knowing that I was taking the picture because I have never seen rice planting before, without knowing that the men planting were soldiers. A few of the soldiers posted in Licuan Baay are from the region and so know how to plant rice. So if the residents ask they will help. If they are going to be around, you might as well put them to work, eh?

When Death Becomes Mundane

August 4th 2008
In my bi-weekly phone call with Mom yesterday I found myself enumerating the things we have done in the office in the last couple of weeks: we prepared for the State of the Nation mobilization, visited Licuan Baay again, documented an extra judicial killing in Kalinga (a province a few hours away) and monitored two encounters between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the New Peoples Army to ... read more

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The Philippine Islands became a Spanish colony during the 16th century; they were ceded to the US in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. In 1935 the Philippines became a self-governing commonwealth. Manuel QUEZON was elected President and was ta... ... read more

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