The Duterte Panagutin Network strongly supports the recent recommendation of the House of Representatives Quad Committee to file charges of crimes against humanity against former President Rodrigo Duterte and his key allies. Victims and their families, along with human rights organizations, have long maintained that the killings are part of a larger orchestrated scheme, which …
After a year and a half in power, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has more and more epitomized the fascist and terrorist nature of his rule. On the one hand, he presents a carefully cultivated “presidential” image, never delving into his regime’s sordid human rights record. He has gone on several trips abroad in an obvious effort …
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KARAPATAN takes exception to statements by Philippine government representatives at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland regarding the supposed reforms that it has undertaken to uphold human rights and its plans to establish a human rights coordinating council. If it isn’t crass hypocrisy, it is plain and simple window-dressing. …
FERDINAND MARCOS JR.: Successor of His Father’s Reign of Terror and Copy-Cat of Duterte’s Malicious BrutalityMarcos Jr.’s First Year of TerrorAFTER A YEAR IN POWER and fashioning himself like his father, Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has proven to be a virtual clone of his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte. Extrajudicial killings (EJKs), which were markers of the …
Cycle of Fascist Violence Under Marcos Jr. THE MARCOS REGIME confirmed in the first quarter of 2023 that it is deadset on perpetuating the same anti-people political and economic policies and human rights violations committed by its predecessors. From extrajudicial killings to illegal or arbitrary arrests and forced or fake surrenders, there is nothing to …
Duterte term-ender report – Rodrigo Duterte and His Crass Legacy of Mass Murder and State TerrorThe Rodrigo Duterte regime ended in June 2022, in what seemed to be the longest six years in the recent history of the people’s movement’s advancement of human rights and justice in the Philippines.Duterte had left an indelible legacy of …
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Into the Final Year of the Tyrant Duterte: Continuing Fascism Met With People’s Resistance When Rodrigo Duterte took the presidency in 2016, he made two particular promises to the Filipino people: that “change is coming,” and that his term would be a bloody one. President Duterte’s promise of change was to continue the same anti-people …
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Epidemic of State Terror and The People’s Resistance 2020 seemed to go on and on without any end in sight as one crisis after another pummelled deadly blows upon a nation already free-falling towards social degradation. For the past four years, the administration of Rodrigo Duterte had proven to be a deadly crisis of its …
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The Worst acts of the Duterte Government, Photoshopped Progress, and the Continuing challenge to resist tyranny Capping of the end of another decade is the striking symptom of a nation in constant social decline with the upswing of a rotten leadership draped in a populist shawl. Rodrigo Duterte has made an early mark of gross …
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DUTERTE’S BLUEPRINT FOR A DICTATORSHIP 2018 was the year of incessant aggression by the opportunists and militarists in government in satisfying their avarice and pushing their anti-people and subservient-to-US agenda but were matched with the people’s determined resistance to frustrate these vultures and mad dogs of President Rodrigo R. Duterte. The dictatorship championed by Duterte …
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