Appreciate your concern EternalHope.  The Philippines have been one of the most controlled countries in the world - under effective U.S. domination since the Spanish American War where hundereds of thousands of Phillipinos were slaughtered. Since then a whole series of "authritarian" regimes backed by the U.S. These type attrocities will continue in all the U.S. backed client states because the central strategy now is the militarization of the entire world under U.S. control.

thanks EternalHope & aldums  for asking .

That is kind of you . yes, loving feelings should be the basic and natural respond to each others  

I will do the same thing in my all  groups.

I hope every thing is ok for our all phillipians players in chess.com site.

I'm just asking. Just in case anyone lives there or has friends and family there.

Again, for the question: "Did the political violence in the Philippines affect anyone here in any way?"

Is the Philippines isolated from the rest of the world?

For the questiion : "Did the political violence in the Philippines affect anyone here in any way?"

Are there no Filipinos here?  At least they are even if the rest don't seem to be.

I don't know what to do with these kind of people already.  With the new automated election, maybe they don't know yet how to hold on to their present elected position.  This is the region which election result has always been questionable.  I don't know if the president can run after the perpetrators seriously because she owed this region her winnings in the elections.