“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 …
VIP treatment of plunderers further robs the people Read More »
“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 …
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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 …
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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 »
“As military generals, those who murder and torture, get promoted and plunderers of the nation’s coffers receive special treatment in jail, the Aquino government is on full blast promoting impunity. Impunity is fostered by counterinsurgency program Oplan Bayanihan, the symbol of killings, torture and other human rights violations.”
Security guard Rolly Panesa today filed a petition for partial review in response to the Department of Justice’s resolution absolving high ranking officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police from any accountability and responsibility in the crime they were charged with. Panesa’s petition for partial review was filed on …
DOJ drops high ranking AFP, PNP officials and fake witnesses from torture complaint Read More »
