Talk:Rape In The Philippines

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[edit] Paragraph removed -- credibility of supporting source questioned

I've moved the following here from this article:

Legal documents show that from 1981 to 1988, 2,005 cases were filed against U.S. servicemen in [[Subic]] and 1,269 cases were filed against the U.S. servicemen in [[Clark]]. All were dismissed. Records of the [[Olongapo City]] prosecutors office reveal that during the same period, fifteen cases of sexual abuse of children between ages 11 and 16 were filed in their office against US servicemen. All were dismissed. At least another 82 cases of sexual abuse of young women 16 years old and older were also dismissed. <ref>http://www.aprnet.org/index.php?a=show&c=Conference%20on%20US%20Militarism%20and%20War%20on%20Terror%20in%20the%20Asia-Pacific&t=conferences&i=93</ref>

I recently removed the same paragraph from the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement article, and explained my reasons here. The same reasoning applies here — it boils down mainly to apparent lack of credibility of the article cited as a supporting source. This removal left the US Military Presence section pretty sparse, and there probably should be more information there. The information, however, needs to be encyclopedic not argumentative, should not be filled with POV innuendo, and needs to be supported by reliable sources. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 06:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation Bill, much appreciated. Ill look around for some other info, etc and see if we can build that section a bit more constructively then, kind regardsSusanbryce (talk) 17:38, 19 February 2008 (UTC)