I’ve been looking through more of Mong Palatino articles, and found that he had written a posts on February 14th about Indonesia. It is called Indonesia: Divorce and polygamy. This story is about women in Indonesia who are divorcing their husbands because of polygamy. More women in polygamous marriages are becoming more assertive about their rights.
I think that women should have the right to marry who they want and be able to divorce. I find even the fact of polygamy disturbing. Men should not marry other women while they’re already in a marriage. Women should step up and make sure that their husbands aren’t having a secret relationship behind their back.
That’s mostly what I have for Indonesia at the moment, but I have found a post about the Philippines by a blogger named Karlo Mongayo. This post is called Philippines: The Death of a Rebel’s Daughter. This tragic story is on the night of March 5, 2009:
Two armed men abducted a 20 year old teacher named Rebelyn Pitao. The next day, her dead body was found bearing ice pick stab wounds, signs of torture, and most likely rape. Rebelyn is the daughter of Lenicio Pitao, a rebel leader of the communist New People’s Army. Her mother claimed that Rebelyn was not involved in her father’s activities. But President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who remains in a war against the rebels, has denied military involvement in the abduction and murder of Rebelyn.
I believe that this woman should have not been abducted or murdered. She has her rights to say that she was not taking part of her father’s actions. So people should have heard what she had to say before they killed her for the reason that they thought she was involved in her father’s activities.
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good job. that was pretty brutal what they did to rebelyn. I think that they shouldnt have killed her. They should have just left her out of the whole deal.
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