Not contended with the exaggerated security measures, the call for transfer to military custody or additional deployment of military in the jail to secure him, a group in the military under the “Free Jovito Palparan Movement” now says they are ready to ‘take the bullet for Palparan’.
"This is a historic day for all victims of human rights violations," Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said yesterday as the group saw through that Ret. Maj. Jovito Palparan Jr. is brought to Bulacan Provincial Jail from the court hearing at the Malolos Regional Trial Court.
Even before the trial has started, the BS Aquino government and the AFP have expressed exaggerated concern for The Butcher Palparan—his safety and security, the so-called trial by publicity and on the day before Palparan faces the Court, the Malacañang statement that Palparan is “innocent until proven guilty.” “The bias is obvious. We hope that …
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“Butchers and cowardly generals like Jovito Palparan Jr. deserve justice –the kind that is commensurate to the number of civilian lives he and his men took and toyed with, while former President Arroyo and the military establishment were cheering him on. To play him up as the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ hero, to give …
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"Kumita na naman ang mga pulis at militar!" (The police and military just got richer!) Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said referring to the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) who allegedly profited from the recent arrest of 60-year old Eduardo Esteban. Last August 5, 2014 in Jaro, Iloilo, …
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“Where does BS Aquino pluck his ideas? First, he says he is thinking of a second term through Cha-Cha (Charter Change). Second, he says there are no more ‘berdugos’ in the AFP. Which and whose voices does Aquino hear?” remarked Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan.
"Let’s get this straight. The arrest of Ret. Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan does not end impunity in the country," Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said a day after the capture of Palparan. "The machinery of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that perpetuates Palparan-style human rights violations against the Filipino people is very much …
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"The manner by which the two UP Clark students were abducted—without any warrant of arrest, blindfolded and denied access to their relatives and lawyers—bear all the signs of an illegal arrest, " Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan said today on the cases of Guiller Cadano, 22, and Gerald Salonga, 24, last August 8, 2014. …
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Karapatan welcomes the long overdue arrest of The Butcher Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. Those who harbored and kept Palparan from arrest in the past years should be accountable as well. (Photo courtesy of SolarTVNews)
"Those who exercised the right to express the people’s grievances to the Aquino administration were met with repression," Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general said as the group, along with leaders of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) and other progressive organizations, today filed complaints at the Commission on Human Rights against the Philippine National Police (PNP) for …
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