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Relatives of victims of human rights violations were among those who filed the impeachment complaint against Pres. Benigno Aquino III yesterday, July 21. "It’s time you pay for your actions," said Concepcion Empeno, mother of missing student Karen Empeño, one of the 28 petitioners in the impeachment complaint against Pres. Noynoy Aquino.
In a statement released from prison, Andrea Rosal extends her support to the impeachment case filed by the anti-pork groups led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan against BS Aquino. Rosal said she could not remain silent while Aquino and his cohorts freely plunder the people’s money.
“The BS Aquino is financing paramilitaries through the Disbursement Accelerated Program (DAP) and it has cost the lives of many people. Definitely, this is not ‘good faith’,” Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan said.
Karapatan slammed anew the BS Aquino government for the preferential treatment it accords the jailed pork barrel plunderers, Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Bong Revilla and Jinggoy Estrada and Janet Napoles. “It seems they are having a staycation in jail. The plunderers continue to enjoy their heyday in jail, squeezing more of the country’s resources for …
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“Martial law victim na, pinahihirapan pa” QUEZON CITY – Marie Hilao-Enriquez, a well-known martial law victim and one of the members in the Hawaii class suit filed against the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, assailed the BS Aquino-appointed Human Rights Victims Claims Board (HRVCB) in a press conference today.
“BS Aquino’s tactic of sweeping under the rug human rights violations committed under his watch is the same scheme he is now using to cover up his accountability for carting away billions of people’s money under the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). If the use of DAP is unconstitutional and an impeachable offense, so are human …
Aquino accountable for killings, HR violations under his watch Read More »
Supt. Mario Malana, Chief of the PNP Crame Custodial Center, and other rank and file police personnel, seem to be sacrificial lambs in the VIP treatment of pork barrel biggies and the overstaying visit brouhaha. His relief from his post, while at first blush seemingly laudable, may actually be diverting the need for sincere attention …
Statement of Benito Tiamzon and Wilma Austria-Tiamzon on Supt. Mario Malana Read More »
"Today, we remember the second year of Willem Geertman’s death with condemnation to the BS Aquino government’s perpetration of impunity and continuing human rights violations. The government can deny the existence of impunity in this country, but cases such as Willem’s and other victims of extrajudicial killings show that BS Aquino is a big fat …
Karapatan reiterates call for JUSTICE FOR WILLEM GEERTMAN Read More »
The Infanta Regional Trial Court Branch 65 approved on July 1, the motion for urgent hospitalization of political detainee Maria Miradel Torres at the Taguig-Pateros District Hospital. “While we welcome the Court’s decision, we demand Torres’ immediate release for humanitarian reason. Torres, who is four months pregnant, is weak from profuse bleeding and is experiencing …
Pregnant woman’s arrest a déja vu of Rosal’s ordeal Read More »
B.S. Aquino is no man of peace. He is hallucinating to ever think he will leave a legacy of peace. For what he will leave behind him is a legacy of human rights violations just as vicious as the ones committed by those in power before him. His insensitivity to the plight of the …
What Peace? BS AQUINO’s LEGACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Read More »
