Member organization: Karapatan

Martial law activists, youth representatives, Moro and Indigenous peoples, and civil libertarians from all across the country gather today to push for the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses in Malacanang or CARMMA.  CARMMA was initially launched in Quezon City on February 4 this year. Also present in the gathering were a number of …

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Martial law activists, youth representatives, Moro and Indigenous peoples, and civil libertarians from all across the country gather today to push for the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses in Malacanang or CARMMA.  CARMMA was initially launched in Quezon City on February 4 this year. Also present in the gathering were a number of …

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For the second time, Jovito Palparan Jr. insisted to represent himself in Court for the kidnapping case at the Malolos Regional Trial Court.  Palparan said “there is a question of trust” and that he is not “amicable” with the representation from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Bulacan chapter. He claimed he can defend himself being …

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Bongbong Marcos’ refusal to apologize for the crimes committed by the US-Marcos dictatorship and his endless attempt to deflect the issue of martial law are sure signs of danger.  

On February 9, National Democratic Front peace consultants Benito and Wilma Tiamzon were brought to Manila Regional trial Court Branch 32 to hear the direct examination of the prosecution’s witness Police Superintendent Edwin Zata. Zata claimed he was among those who responded during the exhumation of the supposed skeletal remains in a “mass grave” in …

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“The 46th and 71st Infantry Battalion waged a terror campaign against the residents of Compostela Valley as the election 2016 circus opens. Two killings, one a vendor and the other a small-scale miner were reported yesterday, February 9, in separate villages in Compostela Valley as cannons were mounted in four communities, two of which were …

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Manilakbayan 2015 participant killed “AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Hernando Iriberri’s statement to ‘declare remaining 12 provinces’, mostly Davao and Caraga provinces, as ‘peaceful and ready for development’ literally means death to the civilians in these regions,” Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said. Right after this year’s first command conference of the Armed Forces of …

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“There will be more of these operations as the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) is implemented,” Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said, on the first year of commemoration of the Mamasapano carnage.