For Philippine National Police chief Archie Gamboa, the intense backlash the police faced last week—following the revelation that station commanders had been directed to compile a list of Muslim students in Metro Manila high schools, colleges and universities “as part of the strengthening of peacebuilding and counter violent extremism of the PNP”—was much ado about nothing. The public has become “oversensitive on a lot of things,” he said, and it had “misinterpreted” the PNP’s intentions. He
Narciso Claveria y Zaldua is a name that will not ring a bell except for Filipino historians, or perhaps some people in Cagayan, Masbate, and Misamis Oriental who live in towns named Claveria, in honor of a Spanish governor general who served from 1844-1849. For personally leading a successful campaign in
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