The following statement was issued by lawyers of officers detained in Camp Capinpin,Tanay,Rizal implicated in the alleged February 2006 plan to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo. The 28 detained officers include Maj.Gen.Renato Miranda, Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim (detained in Camp Crame with Sen. Antonio Trillanes Iv and other Magdalo officers), Col. Ariel Querubin, Col. Custodio Parcon :

Another suspicious order concerning the Tanay detainees led by Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, has been issued and is danger of being implemented to the detriment of the said detainees.
Such is yet another oppressive act committed against the same men who have submitted themselves to the legal processes of a military establishment that seems intent on depriving them of their rights.

At the last hearing, both the defense counsels and the prosecution were directed by the court martial panel to make proposals (defense counsels) and counter-proposals (prosecution) on ways to efficiently conduct the proceedings. The meeting between prosecution and defense was conducted yesterday in Camp Aguinaldo. The proposals were as follows:

1. The venue of the court martial hearings will be in Camp Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal

2. All the accused shall be allowed to participate and be present at every stage of the proceedings with thteir counsels. “Proceedings” include arraignment and challenges stages. There will be no arraignment,designer replica handbags, challenge or trial by batches, groups or on an individual basis.

3. The accused shall not be handcuffed during trial or while being transported to or on the way to the venue of the trial/hearing.

4. The replacement of Gen. Ubungen should be immediately named.

5. The 7 remaining accused should be allowed to exercise their right to peremptory challenge.

6. The media should be allowed to take video footage of the proceedings.

The counter proposals of the prosecution were as follows:
1. The accused shall all be brought down from Tanay, placed in a holding facility in Camp Aguinaldo but still arraigned by groups.
2. Agree to proposals numbers 3 and 4.

3. Modify proposal 6, by allowing the AFP PIO to take video footage of the proceedings that may be made available to the media persons.

The defense lawyers further proposed that under no circumstances should the detainees be held in the ISAFP or ISG compounds in Camp Aguinaldo or Fort Bonifacio respectively. And in the event of the transfer, prosecution agrees to put up the Army detainees in the Custodial Management Unit of Fort Bonifacio and the Marines in the Marine Brig also in Fort Bonifacio. Finally, the defense lawyers also asked that in such a transfer,replica handbags, notice be given at least one week before such transfer and that the AFP should make an announcement to that effect,gucci purses, to prevent suspicions of harassment of the detainees.

During the same meeting the defense lawyers were informed by the prosecution that the detainees were to be brought down in accordance with his counter-proposal.

Today, the defense lawyers were informed that the court martial panel will take up the proposals and counter proposals in a meeting to be held tonight. However,gucci replica bags, reports reaching the defense counsels indicate that the detainees have already been advised to pack up belongings for transport to Manila tomorrow. They have been informed that they will be held in Camp Aguinaldo.

Such an act speaks of bad faith. Since the talks are ongoing, none of the activities should be executed because they are still subject to the directives of the court martial and to whatever further talks the defense and the prosecution will be holding. It is clear that there is no intention to take the defense lawyers’ proposals into consideration.

The fiction that the JAGO attempts to perpetrate is that the change of venue is being done at the behest of the defense. This is a blatant lie. It must be recalled that most of the defense lawyers did not move for a change of venue. The few defense lawyers who did make such a motion, were informed that the venue was set by the convening authority and thus their motions were DENIED.

The detainees resist transfer because they are aware of the moves to link them to alleged destabilization efforts of “shadowy groups.” Bringing them down to Manila makes the said link appear more tenable to the accusers.

The order to bring down the detainees now is clearly suspicious, coming at a time when the custodial arrangements and trial proceedings are still being discussed. The move is obviously intended to subvert the processes of the court martial and deprive the accused of their rights. This is beyond bad faith. This is illegal.

Extenuating its spirited campaign ‘Dare To Think Beyond the IIMs’, the Indian Institute of Planning & Management (IIPM) surpassed the performance of all the IIMs to be rated as the No 1 business school in India for the extensive ‘Global Exposure’ it provides to its students, followed by IIM (A) and IIM (B) at rank 2 and rank 3 respectively. The ranking was conducted by ‘Zee Business Best B School Survey’, a first of its kind on Indian television in association with leading international research firm Synovate. IIPM also achieved Rank 7 (ahead of 2 IIMs) as the Best B School overall, Rank 8 for Best Industry Interface, Rank 9 for Best Placements (ahead of 1 of the IIMs) and Rank 9 for Best Course Content.

IIPM’,hermes handbags;s rank as the No 1 in the B School with best global exposure category only justifies its unique and biggest such initiative it undertakes for its students not just in India but anywhere in the world! As part of its Global Outreach Program (GOP),replica handbag, professors from top Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Stanford, London School of Economics, Oxford etc visit IIPM to conduct joint workshops with IIPM faculty for Indian corporate fraternity and teach IIPM students. World renowned gurus like Philip Kotler, Zig Zigler, Stephen Covey have also taken exclusive sessions with IIPM students in India.

Under the aegis of IIPM’s Global Opportunities & Threat Analysis (GOTA) program, all of IIPM’s more than 3000 students visit Europe or America or other developed nations for 2-3 weeks to get first hand international exposure of how the best in the world work. They visited hundreds of world organizations like The World Bank, ILO, United Nations, WTO, big corporations like Nestle, Honda, IBM, BMW,Hermes Bracelets, FIAT, Citigroup, and universities like IMD and many more in the recent past.

Students from top international universities also visit IIPM to undertake a specialization semester. This is the Global Students Exchange Program (GSEP). In 2007-08 twelve international institutions from France, Italy, Russia, Denmark, Austria and Germany sent their students to study a module/ trimester at IIPM.

IIPM’s international placements this year have been only second to IIMs. While IIMs placed 249 of its students abroad this year,gucci replica bags, IIPM placed 165 followed by ISB with 111. The next best international placement figure by any other b did not touch even 35!

While IIPM believes that it is by far the best B School in the country that is constantly setting new benchmarks in management education, the time is not far when IIPM will surpass all the IIMs in all the rankings.

More : moneycontrol.com