INFOGRAPHIC: 14 Massacres via #DaangMatuwid
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Member organization: Karapatan
Karapatan lists Aquino/AFP SOP alibis on killings, human rights violations
"Kabisado na namin,” said Cristina Palabay Karapatan secretary general on the BS Aquino regime and the AFP’s standard reply when confronted with issues of killings and other human rights violations they have committed against the people. Karapatan enumerated seven ways the government and the AFP escape accountability (even if no one believes them anymore):
AFP’s damaged reputation is its own making
"There’s no reputation to ‘besmirch’. The AFP’s reputation has long been stained with blood of the Filipino people,“ Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said in reaction to the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ statement that groups like Karapatan are ‘besmirching’ its reputation even in the international community.
Karapatan raised issue of Lumad to UN, calls for probe
"We want international bodies to know what is happening in Mindanao—that the Lumad, in defense of their land, are being killed and forced to leave their communities," Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said. Karapatan brought to the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council the killing of Lumad leaders Dionel Campos and Datu …
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Multiple murder filed vs. named paramilitary and military perpetrators of killing rampage in Lianga
September 7, 2015, Lianga, Surigao del Sur – Witnesses to the September 1, 2015 killing of MAPASU Chairman Dionel Campos, ALCADEV Executive Director Emerito Samarca and Manobo Datu Juvello Sinzo and other complainants formally filed criminal charges against known perpetrators and other John Does at the Surigao del Sur Prosecutor’s Office in Lianga late this …
Killings, a policy of Aquino and the AFP
“The victims, their kin and the witnesses have spoken: the Armed Forces of the Philippines and its paramilitary forces are responsible for the grave crimes and atrocities against them, their tribes, and their communities. There is a distinct pattern in the 262 documented victims of extrajudicial killing and the 292 victims of frustrated killings, especially …
Hundreds of Andrea Rosals should be immediately released from jail
Karapatan today called for the release of 536 more Andrea Rosals who are in jail because of false criminal charges. “The case of Andrea Rosal proves that political prisoners are illegally detained and should be immediately released because the charges filed against them are fabricated, backed up by “professional” witnesses hired and coddled by the …
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Karapatan outraged by the killing of Lumad school exec and leaders in Surigao del Sur
"This is reminiscent of the Arroyo’s war against the Filipino people, at a time when it was reeling from its isolation from the people and at the same time in a scurry to beat the deadline of its counterinsurgency program. Killings continue to go up," Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said upon receiving initial report …
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Open letter to 401st IB: Stop playing charades with your HR Trainings
Dear friends, On August 24, 2015, Col. Alexander Macario of the 401st Infantry Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army wrote a letter to KARAPATAN inviting a "lecturer" from the organization for their human rights training with the Commission on Human Rights Region 13 office. We are sharing our response, through a …
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