Santiago calls VFA a ‘failure’; cites Pemberton’s detention under US watch ‘offensive’

  • 8 years ago
During her opening remarks at a Senate hearing on the case of a US Marine who allegedly killed a transgender woman in Olongapo City, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago called the 15-year-old Visiting Forces Agreement a "failure" because it merely served to keep the Philippines attached to its "former colonizer" the United States. Video by INQUIRER.net's Ryan Leagogo

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