Media Release Type: Press statement

A few hours before President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his “shoot-them-dead” orders against alleged communist rebels in his last State of the Nation Address, two activists in Guinobatan, Albay were reportedly gunned down by elements of the Albay Provincial Mobile Force Company, Guinobatan Municipal Police, Regional Mobile Force Battalion 5, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Regional …

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President Rodrigo Duterte’s last State of the Nation Address only confirms his deranged desire to continue his kill, kill, kill policy with his long and shameless apologia for the drug war and the bloody counterinsurgency crackdown — even going as brazen as giving the order “shoot them dead” in the halls of Batasan.

Expectedly, the Philippine government’s inking of the joint human rights program with the United Nations is now being spun as “sincere efforts” on human rights.

The people’s right to peaceably assemble and protest is a basic human right guaranteed by our Constitution: no law or policy can abridge or prohibit it — and this right remains in effect even amid the pandemic. In fact, it is President Rodrigo Duterte’s criminal negligence of people’s welfare and his fascist attacks that are …

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This input was delivered by Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay in the webinar “No Justice, No Peace: 5 Years of State Terror Under Duterte” earlier today, July 21, 2021. You can watch the webinar on Facebook through this link.