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October 22, 2014

OLONGAPO TRANSGENDER SLAY CASE: Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, delivers her opening statement before the start of the public hearing on the alleged killing of a Filipino transgender by a U.S. marine in Olongapo City. In her opening statement, Santiago said that the Philippines was being “manipulated to serve the interest of another” and that the Visiting Forces Agreemet (VFA) was a “historic document of inequity between a former colonizer and its former colony, which some global political analysts describe as a failing state." (PRIB Photo by Joseph Vidal / 22 October 2014)

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