What were the specific accusations to Ferdinand Marcos?
925697
Kleptocracy.  He stole billions in foreign aid that were meant to benefit the people of his country.  Likely also imprisoned and tortured political dissidents.
202814
I can't find the article online, but the article was published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on December 12, 2004.
78695
Philippine Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday accepted what she called "the privilege and responsibility to act as president of the republic."\n\n"I do so with both trepidation and awe," she said, after she was sworn in as president following a declaration by Chief Justice Hilario Davide that the presidency was vacant, which effectively booted the embattled Joseph Estrada from office. \n\nPhilippine Vice President Gloria Macapagal is the president now
307023
On the morning of October 1, 1965, a group of Sukarno's closest guards kidnapped and murdered six of the right-wing anti-Communist generals. Sukarno's guards claimed that they were trying to stop a CIA-backed military coup which was planned to remove Sukarno from power on "Army Day", October 5. Suharto, at the time a Major General, joined surviving right-wing General Abdul Haris Nasution in pointing the blame for the assassinations toward Sukarno-loyalists and the Communist Party of Indonesia - a conspiracy they collectively dubbed the "30 September Movement" (in bahasa Indonesia, Gerakan 30 September). The group's name was more commonly abbreviated G30S, and propaganda would refer to the group by the epithet Gestapu (for its supposed similarity to the Nazi secret police the Gestapo).\n[edit]\n\nCrisis and opportunity\n\nChaos and confusion surrounded the assassinations, but provided an opportunity for Suharto to rise within the army's ranks. At the time of the assassinations of the generals, Maj. Gen. Suharto and his Kostrad units were closest to the capital Jakarta; thus he became the field general in charge of prosecution of the alleged G30S forces. He gained further military powers through the intervention of the surviving right-wing Defense Minister and overall military Chief-of-Staff Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution, who forced President Sukarno to remove Maj. Gen. Pranoto Reksosamudra (seen as a leftist and Sukarno-loyalist) from the position of Army Chief-of-Staff, and to replace him with Maj. Gen. Suharto.[9]\n\nOn 18 October, a declaration was read over the army-controlled radio stations, banning the Communist Party of Indonesia. The army, acting on orders by Suharto and supervised by Nasution, began a campaign of agitation and incitement to violence among Indonesian civilians aimed not only at Communists but the ethnic-Chinese community and toward President Sukarno himself.[10] The resultant destabilization of the country left the Army the only force left to maintain order.\n[edit]\n\nPower struggle\n\nIn the following months, as alleged Communists and Sukarno loyalists were killed and captured from the cities and villages, and liquidated from government, the trioka of Pres. Sukarno, Nasution, and Suharto jockeyed for power.[11] Contemporary reports state that Sukarno was politically weak and desperate to keep power in the hands of his presidency by starting a factional struggle between Gen. Nasution and Suharto, while the two were absorbed in personal ambitions.\n\nOn 1 February 1966, Pres. Sukarno promoted Suharto to the rank of Lieutenant General. The same month, Gen. Nasution had been forced out of his position of Defense Minister.[12] The power contest had been boiled down to Suharto and Sukarno; with Sukarno in ill-health politically isolated in the absence of the PKI, Suharto had virtually assured himself the presidency.\n[edit]\n\nConsequences\n\nBoth supporters and critics of Suharto acknowledge that the period of civil war was marked by human rights abuses, with estimated civilain casualties ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions. Supporters of Suharto claim that these were justified due to the imminent threat of a PKI-led coup, citing the 1948 Madiun Affair, and that the Communist Party intended its peasant and workers' organizations to eventually become a fighting force.\n\nCritics of Suharto claim that the PKI in 1965 had an inclination toward Eurocommunism and had come to prefer parliamentary electoral politics to armed insurrection; the party placed third in the 1955 presidential election behind Sukarno's own Partai Nasional Indonesia (PNI) and the Islamist party Masyumi. These critics allege that Suharto purposefully exaggerated PKI involvement in the assassinations of the generals, in order to justify the liquidation of this power bloc as well as to justify his repressive measures afterwards.\n\nHowever brutal, Suharto's wresting of power away from th
1003698
Dr. José Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), variously called the "Pride of the Malay Race," "The Great Malayan," "The First Filipino," "The Messiah of the Revolution," "The Universal Hero" and "The Messiah of the Redemption." He is the national hero of the Philippines.\n\nRizal was a polyglot. The medium of instruction in various academies in the Philippines and Europe where he studied were Spanish, French, Latin and German. There are facsimiles of letters of his that are in excellent German, and he also had correspondence in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, English, German and Dutch. He made translations from Arabic, Swedish, Russian, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Sanskrit. In addition he had at least some knowledge of Malay, Chavacano, Cebuano, Ilocano, and Subanun besides his native Tagalog.\n\nHe was a poet. As a polymath, he was also an amateur architect, artist, educator, amateur economist, amateur ethnologist, scientific farmer, historian, inventor, journalist, mythologist, internationalist, naturalist, novelist, ophthalmologist, physician, propagandist, sculptor, martial artist, and amateur sociologist.\n\nA patriot of the highest order, the anniversary of Rizal's death, December 30, is now celebrated as a holiday in the Philippines, called Rizal Day.
708280
Q: "Did he really "rent" out a room in the White House?"\nA: Technically no, but he did allow contributors to his campaign to sleep at the White House, so there was a quid pro quo.\n\nQ: "Did he really sell secrets to China?"\nA: This was never proven in a court of law, but there is abundant evidence that the Clintons were receiving illegal campaign contributions from the Chinese, that their friend Bernie Ebbers at Loral passed secrets to the Chinese, and that a Chinese agent was working within the White House.\n\nQ: "Did he really have "sex" in the White House?"\nA: Would your wife agree that a BJ is not sex?\n\nQ: "Did he really go to Russia during Vietnam?"\nA: Yes.  While a student at Oxford University in England, Clinton participated in a protest rally against the U.S. during a trip to the Soviet Union.\n\nQ: "What else did he do?"\nA1: He lied to a military officer in order to gain a draft deferment.\nA2: He lied to a Grand Jury, thus committing perjury, while in office.
632119
What crime ? : the real criminals were his accusers : they were extortionists.  And the prosecutor was trying to make a name for himself : he was beaten and shown to be incompetent instead.
1030601
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#Assassination
1059815
Allahyarham Tun Hussein bin Dato' Onn (12 Februari 1922 - 29 Mei 1990) merupakan Perdana Menteri Malaysia ketiga yang berkhidmat dari tahun 1976 sehingga 1981. Beliau diperlihatkan sebagai seorang yang amat ikhlas dalam perjuangan untuk mencapai perpaduan kaum dan mempunyai reputasi untuk bertindak keras kepada sesiapa yang mencuba membangkitkan kekacauan perkauman di dalam negara. Oleh sebab usahanya dalam pemupukan perpaduan di kalangan masyarakat Malaysia, Tun Hussein Onn telah dikenang sebagai "Bapa Perpaduan".\n\nHussein Onn yang berasal daripada sebuah keluarga yang mempunyai semangat nasionalisme dan akar politik yang mendalam, kemudian meletakkan jawatan perkhidmatan awam untuk menyertai politik. Pada tahun 1949, beliau menjadi Ketua Pemuda Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu (UMNO) yang pertama dan kemudian, pada tahun 1950, beliau dipilih menjadi Setiausaha Agung. Bagaimanapun, Hussein Onn meninggalkan UMNO pada tahun 1951 untuk menyertai Parti Kemerdekaan Malaya (IMP) yang ditubuhkan oleh ayahandanya.\n\nOleh sebab IMP tidak menerima sambutan yang baik, Hussein Onn pergi ke London untuk belajar undang-undang di Lincoln's Inn dan berjaya melayakkan diri sebagai Barrister-at-Law. Beliau pulang ke Malaya sebagai seorang peguam bertauliah dan bekerja di Kuala Lumpur.\n\nKebangkitan untuk berkuasa\nHussein Onn kembali ke politik untuk menyertai UMNO pada tahun 1968 selepas dipujuk oleh Tun Abdul Razak, Perdana Menteri ketika itu. Beliau bertanding dan menang dalam pilihan raya umum pada tahun 1969 dan dilantik sebagai Menteri Pelajaran.\n\nKenaikan pangkatnya yang pantas itu berterusan sewaktu beliau mewarisi Tun Dr Ismail yang meninggal dunia pada 2 Ogos 1973 sebagai Timbalan Perdana Menteri. Pada 15 Januari 1976, Hussein Onn dilantik menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang ketiga selepas kematian Tun Abdul Razak. \n\nHussein Onn termasyhur dalam penegasannya terhadap persoalan perpaduan melalui dasar-dasar yang bertujuan semata-mata untuk membetulkan ketidakseimbangan ekonomi antara kaum masyarakat. Ketika menjadi Perdana Menteri, beliau meneruskan agenda pembangunan Allahyaraham Tun Abdul Razak; usahanya dalam memajukan Malaysia tidak pernah lari dari sasaran Dasar Ekonomi Baru. Hussein Onn sentiasa mencuba meningkatkan taraf hidup kaum Melayu yang agak ketinggalan jika dibandingkan dengan kaum-kaum lain pada waktu itu. Dengan itu, pada 20 April 1981, beliau melancarkan Skim Amanah Saham Nasional yang merupakan satu dana amanah bumiputera yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan ekuiti bumiputera dalam ekonomi negara.\n\nHussein Onn juga memberi penekanan kepada konsep Rukun Tetangga dan perjuangan terhadap ancaman dadah. Di bawah pentadbirannya, angkatan bersenjata Malaysia juga diperbesar dan dipermodenkan kerana penewasan Vietnam Selatan oleh pihak komunis yang menggemparkan seluruh rantau Asia Tenggara.\n\nHussein Onn menjalani pintasan koronari pada awal 1981. Pada 17 Julai dalam tahun itu, beliau bersara daripada politik aktif dan meletakkan jawatannya sebagai Perdana Menteri atas sebab-sebab kesihatan. Jawatan Perdana Menteri diambil alih oleh timbalannya, Mahathir bin Mohamad. Disebabkan perkhidmatannya kepada negara, Hussein Onn dikurniakan dengan gelaran "Tun" yang merupakan anugerah diraja yang tertinggi di Malaysia.\n\n\nSelepas persaraan\nSelepas persaraannya sebagai Perdana Menteri, Tun Hussein meneruskan sumbangannya kepada pertubuhan-pertubuhan kebajikan. Beliau bermain peranan yang utama dalam pertubuhan Hospital Mata Tun Hussein Onn. Tun Hussein juga menjadi Pengerusi Institut Kajian Strategik dan Antarabangsa (ISIS) dan penasihat kepada Petronas.\n\nSewaktu krisis kepimpinan UMNO berlaku pada tahun 1987, hubungan Tun Hussein dengan Dr. Mahathir menjadi buruk, dan beliau menyokong 'Team B' bersama-sama dengan Tunku Abdul Rahman. Mulai dari masa itu, Tun Hussein dan Tunku menjadi pengkritik yang kuat terhadap pentadbiran Mahathir.
50894
On June 5, 1898, Aguinaldo issued a decree setting aside June 12 as the day for the proclamation of Philippine independence. At the same time, he commissioned Julian Felipe, a composer from Cavite, to prepare a composition which would be played during the independence ceremonies. On June 11, Felipe showed Aguinaldo the draft of his musical composition, which was entitled Marcha Filipina Magdalo. Aguinaldo and the other revolutionary leaders, upon hearing the composition played on the piano, adopted it as the official march of the Philippines. Aguinaldo then requested Felipe to teach the music to the members of the band of San Francisco de Malabon so it could be played the next day. Felipe changed the title of the march to Marcha Nacional Filipina(Philippine National March). \nHistory of the Filipino People. Teodoro A. Agoncillo \nThe following day(June 12, 1898), the music band of San Francisco de Malabon played it for the first time during the unfurling of the Filipino flag at Kawit. The beautiful melody of the anthem stirred the people's patriotic fervor. \n\nFor more than a year, the anthem remained without words. Towards the end of August 1899, a young poet-soldier named Jose Palma(younger brother of Dr. Rafael Palma) wrote the poem entitled Filipinas. This poem expressed in elegant Spanish verses the ardent patriotism and fighting spirit of the Filipino people. It became the words of the anthem. At last the national anthem was complete -- with music and words. \n\nThe Philippines: A Unique Nation. Dr. Sonia M. Zaide \n \n Follow the link for more information.\n\nhttp://www.msc.edu.ph/centennial/anthem.html
80707
Try this:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_May-ling
1041484
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 603\n December 10, 1974\nTHE CHILD AND YOUTH WELFARE CODE\n  \nI, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order and decree the following: \n  \nTITLE I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES\n  \nArticle 1.  Declaration of Policy. - The Child is one of the most important assets of the nation. Every effort should be exerted to promote his welfare and enhance his opportunities for a useful and happy life. \nThe child is not a mere creature of the State. Hence, his individual traits and aptitudes should be cultivated to the utmost insofar as they do not conflict with the general welfare. \n\nThe molding of the character of the child start at the home. Consequently, every member of the family should strive to make the home a wholesome and harmonious place as its atmosphere and conditions will greatly influence the child's development. \n\nAttachment to the home and strong family ties should be encouraged but not to the extent of making the home isolated and exclusive and unconcerned with the interests of the community and the country. \n\nThe natural right and duty of parents in the rearing of the child for civic efficiency should receive the aid and support of the government. \n\nOther institutions, like the school, the church, the guild, and the community in general, should assist the home and the State in the endeavor to prepare the child for the responsibilities of adulthood. \n\nArt. 2. Title and Scope of Code. - The Code shall be known as the "Child and Youth Welfare Code". It shall apply to persons below twenty-one years of age except those emancipated in accordance with law. "Child" or "minor" or "youth" as used in this Code, shall refer to such persons. \n\nArt. 3. Rights of the Child. - All children shall be entitled to the rights herein set forth without distinction as to legitimacy or illegitimacy, sex, social status, religion, political antecedents, and other factors. \n\n(1) Every child is endowed with the dignity and worth of a human being from the moment of his conception, as generally accepted in medical parlance, and has, therefore, the right to be born well. \n(2) Every child has the right to a wholesome family life that will provide him with love, care and understanding, guidance and counseling, and moral and material security. \n\nThe dependent or abandoned child shall be provided with the nearest substitute for a home. \n\n(3) Every child has the right to a well-rounded development of his personality to the end that he may become a happy, useful and active member of society. \n\nThe gifted child shall be given opportunity and encouragement to develop his special talents. \n\nThe emotionally disturbed or socially maladjusted child shall be treated with sympathy and understanding, and shall be entitled to treatment and competent care. \n\nThe physically or mentally handicapped child shall be given the treatment, education and care required by his particular condition. \n\n(4) Every child has the right to a balanced diet, adequate clothing, sufficient shelter, proper medical attention, and all the basic physical requirements of a healthy and vigorous life. \n\n(5) Every child has the right to be brought up in an atmosphere of morality and rectitude for the enrichment and the strengthening of his character. \n\n(6) Every child has the right to an education commensurate with his abilities and to the development of his skills for the improvement of his capacity for service to himself and to his fellowmen. \n\n(7) Every child has the right to full opportunities for safe and wholesome recreation and activities, individual as well as social, for the wholesome use of his leisure hours. \n\n(8) Every child has the right to protection against exploitation, improper influences, hazards, and other conditions or circumstances prejudicial to his physical, mental, emotional, social and moral developm
243851
Too many to list but this site gives you everything your looking for, the Philippine presidents and their background and accomplishments and most has pictures.\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/on/philpres/estrada.html\n President Marcus is not showing so click here for the info\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos
358601
Ferdinand Marcos!\nKidding.
220593
read the 1989 Constitution....\nafter marcos regime...\njust read it you;ll find what your are asking for..ok!
11504
Lazaro Francisco, the eminent Tagalog novelist of the pre-war years, was to continue to produce significant work. He revised his Bayaning Nagpatiwakal (1932), refashioning its plot and in sum honing his work as a weapon against the policies that tended to perpetuate American economic dominance over the Philippines. The updated novel was titled Ilaw Sa Hilaga (1948)\n\nAbout the characters in the novel read this site:\nhttp://www.kabayancentral.com/book/up/mb5420931.html\nhttp://www.libros.com.ph/bookdetails.asp?bookid=9789715420938
230131
How about the fact that the Philippines is a democracy? How about the fact that the Philippine people are free? Communist countries like China implement policies on how many children you can have. It is none of the government's business.\n\nClear enough for ya?