Member organization: Karapatan

Karapatan to Army chief Emmanuel Bautista: tell that to the marines

“It’s psywar, not respect for human rights. The disconnect between Bautista’s statement and the reality on the ground is the result of a paradox between respect for human rights and Oplan Bayanihan, the Aquino government’s version of the United States’ Counterinsurgency program 2009, which Bautista penned,” said Marie Hilao-Enriquez, chairperson of Karapatan.  Among the many …

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Aquino’s ‘successful’ NZ gab a misinformation to int’l community

Fiddling around the euphoria of pretensions and hubris, President Noynoy Aquino’s gab in New Zealand has sparked intense reactions.  His apologists, Ricky Carandang and Atty. Edwin Lacierda, expectedly, were quick to come to his defense. Instead of seriously considering the concern of the international community on the human rights situation in the country, particularly, that …

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Think before you speak, Mr. President, the ball is in your hands

Karapatan today derided Pres. Aquino’s statement that extrajudicial killings is not his government’s policy, as he called on senatorial candidate, Teddy Casino of Bayan Muna, to help in solving the killings by looking for evidences and filing cases.  “The problem with the Aquino government is when it can no longer justify the existence of human …

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Karapatan to Aquino: Yes, Mr. President, your human rights record ‘speaks for itself’

“Mr. President, your human rights record indeed speaks for itself with 114 victims of extrajudicial killing (EJK), 127 victims of frustrated EJK, 70 persons tortured, 12 disappeared, and scores of other rights violations under your administration. These violations, plus the fact that your security forces are a miserable failure in arresting the Butcher Gen. Palparan, …

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Karapatan calls for pullout of 27th IB from Lumad areas, condemns massacre of Blaan family

“It was a massacre and not an encounter,” said Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan belying claims of Lt. Col. Alexis Bravo, head of the 27th IB of the Philippine Army that a Blaan woman, Juvy Capion, 27, and her two sons, John Capion, 8, and Pop Capion,13 were killed in a gunfight.    Initial …

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Karapatan dares govt to apply the law vs. Palparan and other perpetrators

On the approval of the Anti-Disappearance bill Karapatan appreciates the approval of the Anti-Disappearance bill by a bicameral committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives, as it challenged the Noynoy Aquino government to immediately end its practice of enforced disappearance among activists and suspected members of the revolutionary movement.  Karapatan has documented 12 …

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Still no justice as the Aquino gov’t refuses to go after its own people

After a year since Fr. Pops Tentorio’s killing  “It has been a year after the extrajudicial killing of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, and the real masterminds and perpetrators of this heinous offense have not been rendered justice. Karapatan attributes this grave injustice to the persistent denial and stonewalling of the Aquino administration in holding the Armed …

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