As the Lumad at Liwasang Bonifacio expect Manila-style dismantling of the Manilakbayan camp tomorrow, November 13, report coming from the Karapatan-Caraga region says that the teachers’ cottage of ALCADEV in Brgy. Padiay, Sibagat, Agusan del Sur was torched at 2 a.m., today by men believed to be under the command of the 23rd Infantry Battalion-Philippine …
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“Scared to reveal the skeletons in the closet, Colonel Benjamin Hao?" Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said in response to Army Spokesperson Col. Hao’s threat to deport the foreigners who joined the International Fact Finding Mission (IFFM) held in Surigao del Sur, where the September 1 massacre and other military and paramilitary atrocities were committed. …
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"Just like the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the rest of the BS Aquino agencies, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been a party to the commission of human rights by implementing Oplan Bayanihan, particularly in filing false charges against activists and in deodorizing the crimes of …
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"The whitewash, cover up and lies of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Malacañang and the Commission of Human Rights (CHR) on the recruitment of Lumad in the military and Civilian Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU), nevermind if they are conflicting, are directed to one thing—to shield the BS Aquino government from accountability on the …
Conflicting lies of AFP, Palace, CHR to protect state perpetrators, Aquino—Karapatan Read More »
October 25, 2015 We, political prisoners, hail the matchers and other participants and supporters — along the way, and even in other far away places — of the October 2015 Manilakbayan. This mass protest activity has travelled all the way from the farthest part of Mindanao in the south to the national capital, to decry …
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"Today, October 24, as ManiLakbayan heads to Metro Manila, its 700-strong participants also commemorate the first year of the killing of a fellow Lumad, Henry Alameda,” Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said, two days before the peoples of Mindanao are set to arrive at the National Capital Region. The ManiLakbayan, under the BS Aquino administration, …
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A local court issued the order for the immediate release of a political prisoner detained for more than eleven (11) years for trumped up charges filed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Marilou Runes-Tamang, presiding judge of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 98, today ruled that political prisoner Eduardo Serrano is …
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"Four years after Fr. Fausto Tentorio was killed on October 17, 2011, the schools he helped build for the Lumad are now the targets of military operations and are targets for closure. Three years after the Capion massacre on October 18, four more massacres followed. Meanwhile, the cases filed against the perpetrators of the killing …
Killings continue as the case of Tentorio and Capion remain in the dustbin Read More »
Solidarity is not just a hashtag US-based lawyers, faith-based/ecumenical institutions, distinguished university professors and human rights advocates sent letters to Phil. President Benigno Aquino III and US authorities to express the concern of the international community on the killing of Lumad leaders Dionel Campos and Juvello Sinzo and Lumad school executive Emerito Samarca.
"What should have been a hearing to finally determine whether “Rogelio Villanueva” is Eduardo Serrano, a political prisoner detained for more than 10 years now because of false charges, became a hearing to present witnesses who are obviously lying," Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said.
