Peace consultant Eduardo Sarmiento was sentenced to 20 to 40 years imprisonment by Judge Myra Bayot Quiambo of the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 203, yesterday, December 11, onthe basis of trumped up criminal charge of illegal possession of firearms and explosives.
Oppressed people are angry people. And even as the BS Aquino government take steps to contain this anger and gloss over the dismal human rights situation in the country, it cannot quell the rising discontent and distrust of the people. This was the main message at today’s rally to commemorate the International Human Rights Day …
As human rights groups and people’s organizations gear up for the commemoration of the International Human Rights day on December 10, the BS Aquino government opted to commemorate the event by going on a rampage, resulting to a series of extrajudicial killings committed by State forces, and in violation of human rights and international humanitarian …
Commemoration of the Int’l Human Rights Day marked by series of killings Read More »
The Filipino people commemorate the International Human Rights Day with rage and protests over the morose record of the US- Aquino regime’s gross human rights violations in the past three years.
“The cat is out of the bag—the so-called humanitarian assistance by the US troops in the disaster areas is simply a justification for their permanent basing and operation in the Philippines. Even without this disaster, the US was pushing for an increased and permanent presence of their troops and warships in the Philippines for its …
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"BS Aquino’s appointment of Gen. Panfilo Lacson as ‘rehabilitation czar’ in typhoon-affected areas is the same as appointing Gen. Jovito Palparan to a plum civilian position in government. Nothing in Lacson’s bloody record indicate his competence to handle the rehabilitation of communities affected by typhoon Yolanda. In fact, he is most known as a notorious …
International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War Peace consultants of the National Democratic Front join other political prisoners in a ten-day fast/hunger strike to protest their “continued detention, the unabated human rights violations, the continuing corruption in the government and the ineptitude of the BS Aquino Aquino regime in responding to …
Political prisoner Ramon Patriarca today started holding a hunger strike to call for the release of all political prisoners and as a symbolic gesture to keep the people’s vigilance alive in the fight against pork barrel and all its forms.
