Reports
2016 Karapatan Year-end Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
submitted on Thu, 03/09/2017 - 12:37
As soon as Rodrigo Duterte became the evident winner in the last presidential elections, the public shut off BS Aquino from their minds and turned their attention to Duterte who espoused “change” during his electoral campaign. BS Aquino had been a dead weight on the shoulders of the Filipino people in the past six years. Never mind if up to the last minute, he acted under the illusion that he was the guardian of democracy like no other.
Read full text here: https://www.karapatan.org/2016+Human+Rights+Report
ALTERNATIVE REPORT ON THE PHILIPPINES
submitted on Fri, 09/23/2016 - 13:402015 Karapatan Year-end Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
submitted on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 13:56On June 30, 2016, Benigno Simeon Aquino III, the 15th president of the Government of the Philippines, steps down from Malacañang. Plagued as it is with cases of bureaucratic corruption, criminal negligence, inept leadership, sell-out of the nation’s sovereignty, the BS Aquino presidency also leaves behind an atrocious record of human rights violations, which he continues to ignore to this day.
Karapatan Monitor 2015 Issue No. 2
submitted on Tue, 11/17/2015 - 17:50
Mindanao takes the center stage of BS Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan.
The massacre of the Lumad leaders Dionel Campos, Juvello Sinzo and Emerito Samarca on September 1 in Lianga, Surigao del Sur brought to the fore the state of human rights in Mindanao and in the whole country under the BS Aquino regime—the unabated political killings, attacks on communities and on self-initiated schools, forced evacuation, among many other military atrocities. The brazenness by which the crime was committed speaks of the climate of impunity that continues to pervade the country.
2014 Karapatan Year-end Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
submitted on Tue, 07/07/2015 - 17:17
On December 10, as the world commemorated International Human Rights Day, the Filipino people, represented by progressive people’s organizations, put on trial the US-backed Aquino regime for crimes against the Filipino people.
For more than four years, the US-backed Aquino regime has only resorted to dishing out catchy slogans to mask its attacks on the Filipino people—an endless and unproductive loop of lies.
Oplan Bayanihan, which is instrumental in the bombing of communities, illegal arrests, detention, and killings of activists, hides behind ‘peace and development, and respect for human rights’ slogans.
The police brutality used against legitimate protest actions and during demolition of urban poor shanties masquerades as ‘maintenance of peace and order’.
Karapatan Monitor 2015 Issue No. 1
submitted on Mon, 05/25/2015 - 16:27Less than a week after the euphoria brought about by the visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines, on January 16-19, the Filipinos were shaken by another of President BS Aquino’s fiasco, the Mamasapano botched military operation.
Karapatan Monitor 2014 Issue No. 2
submitted on Tue, 09/09/2014 - 18:21
Catapulted into power on the merit of his parents’ legacy, Benigno S. Aquino easily and quickly used up all of his parents’ magic.
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Karapatan Monitor 2014 Issue No. 1
submitted on Thu, 05/15/2014 - 10:14
In his grandest show as a puppet, Benigno S. Aquino rolled down the red carpet to welcome the head of the number one imperialist country, Barack Obama of the US of A. The combined proposed change in the Philippine Constitution with the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the US government was BS Aquino’s gift to his real boss.
2013 Karapatan Year-end Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
submitted on Thu, 02/20/2014 - 13:51The masquerade is over. The balloons of promises and hopes have burst. 2013 unmasked the pretentions of a self-proclaimed messiah who vowed to create miracles—eradicate the deeply entrenched cancerous cell of corruption in a hopeless bureaucrat capitalist system; a bounty in economy through magical, impalpable statistics of GNPs; a life without twist and turn of reality. 2013 is marked by significant gains of the people’s movement as the BS Aquino government bares itself before the Filipino people, exposing not only its humbug character but also its fascist nature, its shrouded corruption, its ineptness...
Karapatan Monitor 2013 Issue No. 2
submitted on Wed, 10/16/2013 - 11:20The Filipino people seethe with anger and discontent.
The protest actions that followed the exposé on the PhP10-billion pork barrel scam sent the Aquino government scampering for ways to dissipate the people’s anger, but only in ways that Benigno Simeon Aquino III and the bureaucrats in his government can continue to feast on the pork and drown themselves in pork fat.
