Letter to the Editor September 28,2015 With all due respect to Prof. Winnie Monsod, her red tagging might just spur intensification of human rights violations in Lumad communities. Her red tagging of people’s organizations and human rights groups only encourages, and even justifies, more extrajudicial killings, threats and harassments among the Lumad who are …
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"Two more lives were taken in defense of their land," Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Karapatan chairperson said following the killing of couple Roger and Lucila Vargas on September 19, 2015 in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. The Vargas couple was in the middle of a land dispute with the influential Singsons of Ilocos Sur who claims ownership …
Karapatan at the Berlin human rights confab In a conference organized by German human rights advocates and church workers in Berlin, Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay called on the international community to support the call for justice for the 282 victims of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, including the 49 Lumad killed under the Aquino …
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"The attempts of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to deny their links to the Magahat-Bagani paramilitary groups involved in the massacre of three Lumad leaders and to discredit the communities they victimized backfired when they presented before the media the so-called datu of Mindanao who turned out to be known leaders of paramilitary groups,” …
“It is tempting to ignore the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ use of red baiting tactic against rights advocates and journalists. We all know it is a sign of panic or a work of dimwits to whitewash their crimes against the people. But history also tells us that most of the victims of extrajudicial killing, …
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Progressive lawmakers, human rights advocates and relatives of deceased legislator and labor leader Rep. Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran today filed a petition for the writs of amparo and habeas data at the Supreme Court in Manila, to decry threats to their “life, liberty and security” with the existence of a “hitlist” containing names and pictures …
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Witnesses and relatives of slain Lumad leaders and tribal school executive director in Lianga, Surigao del Sur who went to the Department of Justice today for a meeting with Secretary Leila De Lima were disappointed to find found out that De Lima was in Malacanang to respond to an urgent call from the President. The …
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"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):
"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.
