"BS Aquino’s ‘daang matuwid’ hits dead end," Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said as their group laid out ‘road signs’ on a blood-stained yellow cloth depicting Aquino’s “righteous path”. The road signs depicted BS Aquino’s violations against the Filipino people. At the end of the yellow road is a huge “DEAD END” sign.
"BS Aquino’s ‘daang matuwid’ hits dead end," Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said as their group laid out ‘road signs’ on a blood-stained yellow cloth depicting Aquino’s “righteous path”. The road signs depicted BS Aquino’s violations against the Filipino people. At the end of the yellow road is a huge “DEAD END” sign.
"When BS Aquino sacrificed his own troops for the interest of a foreign country, his crimes against the nation have already reached it peak. He has nowhere else to go but to ‘Accountability Street’," Palabay said. "Despite his claims, BS Aquino has been especially indifferent to the plight of Moro peoples and indigenous communities of Mindanao. It is no wonder that he easily risked the lives of Moro families in Mamasapano, Maguindanao for the US government. Back in November 2014, when hundreds of Mindanaons came here to Manila to cry for food and peace in Mindanao, BS Aquino simply shunned their presence," Palabay recalled.
"The Zamboanga siege on September 2013 victimized hundreds of Moro peoples sending them to evacuation centers in subhuman conditions which led to diseases and deaths of children. This also led to a number of deaths, imprisonment, torture of many Moro people suspected to be members of the Moro National Liberation Front. Many of them are still languishing in jail, at Special Intensive Care Area-2, in Camp Bagong Diwa," Palabay said. The SICA-2 building is covered with metal louvers, which prevents air and sun to come in.
"BS Aquino’s neglect on the plight of many Filipinos in Sabah, mostly Tausug, and his tolerance of the Malaysian government’s crackdown against undocumented Filipino is also another crime," Palabay said.
Palabay said the human rights violations perpetrated by the Aquino regime for and with the US government, through its counterinsurgency program, have disrupted and claimed thousands of lives.
As of end 2014, Karapatan has documented at least 229 extrajudicial killings, 225 frustrated killing, 106 cases of torture, 46,861 victims of forced evacuation and 700 illegal arrests under the BS Aquino presidency.
“The BS Aquino regime has a highway of crimes that could no longer be ignored. Added to these are the issues of corruption through the unconstitutional Disbursement Acceleration Program and the sellout of Philippine sovereignty with the signing of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the US government," Palabay enumerated.
"The Filipino people could no longer stomach a good-for-nothing puppet president. To save our nation from further damage, we should push BS Aquino to the ‘Accountability Street’," Palabay concluded. ###