KMU
Leaders Arrested in Attempted Visit to Jailed Solon
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Posted
6:00 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006
Two leaders of the Kilusang Mayo
Uno (KMU or May First Movement) were arrested this morning as they and
close to a hundred members of the said labor federation trooped to Camp
Crame, the national headquarters of the Philippine National Police
(PNP).
Arrested were Dennis Maga and
Marcial Dabela. Maga is the spokesperson of the Gloria Step Down
Movement (GSM) while Dabela is the vice-chairperson of the Association
of Democratic labor Organizations (ADLO).
The militant workers had intended
to visit jailed Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran, who has been detained at
Camp Crame since being arrested Feb. 25. They were stopped by about 150
truncheon-wielding policemen a few hundred meters from Camp Crame’s EDSA
gate.
Maga tried to negotiate with
the police so that the militant workers could be allowed to enter Camp
Crame and visit Beltran. As negotiations were going on, a police officer
ordered the anti-riot team to disperse the workers and arrested Maga and
Dabela. Bulatlat
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