Region: National

A National Solidarity Mission (NSM) to Lacub, Abra commenced yesterday, as representatives of various people’s organizations, human rights groups and progressive partylist organizations joined human rights workers and peace advocates in Northern Luzon. The mission is set to investigate human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in Lacub, Abra, in the light of …

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“Human rights violators and plunderers in the military and police are being treated like sacred cows by the Aquino administration,” Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan said as their group supports the motion filed by private prosecutors on the criminal charges against retired M/Gen. Jovito S. Palparan.       

"The things that BS Aquino failed to mention about the Philippines to European Union heads of states are those which need much attention, like the human rights situation in the country," Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan said on the eve of BS Aquino’s return from his state visits in European countries. "The human rights …

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As the nation commemorates the declaration of martial law 42 years ago, Karapatan rejects all intimations, declarations and maneuvers by BS Aquino for a second term. “We say No to Aquino Dictatorship, we say Never Again. Not for whatever reason, especially not for the continuation of Aquino’s so-called righteous path,” said Cristina Palabay, secretary general …

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  "As it is, life is already hard for indigenous peoples defending their ancestral lands from mining companies and other government projects, lalo pang pinapahirap ng AFP at Oplan Bayanihan," Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan said.    The human rights group called for the immediate pull out of military troops in La Paz, Agusan …

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Palparan is back to the barracks of the Philippine Army—his home for more than 30 years, where he was trained and where he cloned his ilk. Malacanang welcomed Palparan’s transfer to Fort Bonifacio and BS Aquino, who was in Belgium, called it ‘punishment’.    

Today’s decision of the Malolos Court to transfer “The Butcher” Jovito Palparan to the custody of the Philippine Army from the Bulacan Provincial Jail bodes evil to the hundreds of victims of the retired general and his ilk in the Armed Forces of the Philippines.   “The AFP moved heaven and earth to secure and …

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