Dear Idun, Happy birthday and best wishes to you in your family life, diplomatic career and work for the Philippine peace process. I hope that...

the tyrannical regime refuses to release the political prisoners and continues to accumulate them on trumped-up charges of common crimes

He accepted the false and aggressive claim of China over the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines in violation of Philippine sovereign rights

Legal organizations of various sectors are first red-tagged and falsely accused of being "communists" and "terrorists"

Why the co-chairmanship over something owned exclusively by the Philippines, which ought to hire an exploration and development company that does not belong to a country which refuses to respect the final judgment of the Permanent Arbitration Commission under the UNCLOS?

China has succeeded in at least putting at par its false claim of ownership of almost the entire China Sea, including the Philippine EEZ, with the solid and final judgment of the Permanent Arbitration Court in favor of the Philippines in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

It is widely accepted that the people hate Duterte's sell-out to China, just as even the churches and church people detest the extrajudicial killings

He is aggravating them and escalating the exploitation and oppression of the people.