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Extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, political persecution, baseless accusations, and arbitrary arrest and detention have no place in a democracy. These are contradictory to it. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Norberto Gonzales, Raul Gonzalez, and the AFP...
Even the parents of nominees of progressive party-list groups are not spared of the harassment directed against them. Last March 13, the father of Kabataan Party’s second nominee and National Capital Region (NCR) chairperson Enrico Almonguerra received a letter...
Asserting his innocence and braving a police manhunt, Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo accompanied by friends and supporters went to the Supreme Court on March 16 to ask that the “sham and fabricated” charges filed by the military against him be dropped. BY...
The seven bodies found in an alleged mass grave in Inopacan, Southern Leyte which were being presented in the multiple murder case against Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo, Jose Ma.Sison, Luis Jalandoni, Vicente Ladlad, Rafael Baylosis, Randal Echanis and...
She bore him for nine months in her womb. But Casimira Roluna, 78 years old, a resident of Brgy. Cabungaan, Baybay, Leyte, has not seen her son for nine months now. Her only proof of life was the news she heard over the radio last March 7, 2006 that her son,...
BY EMILY VITAL Posted 12:47 p.m., March 26, 2007 Families of victims of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations welcomed the verdict of an international tribunal declaring both the Arroyo and Bush governments guilty of...
With the way her legs are positioned and with how she holds the knife, the young Baguio City (246 kms. north of Manila) woman looks as though she’s performing a war dance. But no, she is just gathering watercress, a vegetable that grows on watery patches, from her...
What was done to Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Satur Ocampo – roused from sleep at dawn on March 19 and dragged into a plane that would have brought him to Leyte, where spurious multiple murder charges are filed against him and others – can be taken as a measure...
By Pamilya ng Desaparecidos para sa Katarungan (DESAPARECIDOS) Posted by Bulatlat The group of families of desaparecidos today called on the Armed Forces of the Philippines to surface the victims of enforced disappearances, instead of fabricating stories of “mass...
BY THE NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES (NUJP) Posted by Bulatlat The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines protests in the strongest terms the high-handed and arbitrary ban imposed by Manila Police District director, Sr Supt Danilo...
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The composer of Marcha de Cadiz (March of Cadiz) – supposedly meant to celebrate the victory of Spain – could not have foreseen that his work would one day be played by a brass band at the execution of the national hero of a Spanish colony. BY ROSALINDA N. OLSEN...
The indigenous inhabitants of Baguio City, the Ibalois, remain victims of historical injustice as a colonially-inspired land system continues to deprive them of their rights to their ancestral land despite the enactment of a state law to recognize land rights by...
Students from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) had another taste of repression. This did not result in the murder of another student, as what happened to Mark Chua, the student who exposed the corruption in the Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC). But this...
Victims of typhoon Reming (international name- Durian) were recent beneficiaries of almost two tons of medicines and vaccines from the Cuban government, a socialist country with one of the world’s most advanced health system. BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat Responding...
For 11 years, Marinduqueños have been seeking justice from the various courts in the country and abroad to determine the liabilities of Marcopper Mining Corporation and Placer Dome, Incorporated (bought by Barrick Gold in 2006) over the disasters their 30-year...
The water crisis, whether in the Philippines or globally, is a crisis underlined by the fact that majority of the poor people have no access to water while most of the water goes to the rich. BY ARNOLD PADILLA IBON Foundation Posted by Bulatlat Environment...
The water crisis, whether in the Philippines or globally, is a crisis underlined by the fact that majority of the poor people have no access to water while most of the water goes to the rich. BY ARNOLD PADILLA IBON Foundation Posted by Bulatlat Environment...
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