May 21, 2017 - Bulatlat

Day: May 21, 2017

Extrajudicial killing of rights defenders

Bulatlat Contributors May 21, 2017 At Ground Level, Satur Ocampo

Sixteen years ago, alarmed over the rising incidents of extrajudicial killing of persons engaged in defending and promoting human rights in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, an independent advocacy group founded Front Line Defenders (FLD) in Dublin, Ireland. Its specific aim: to protect human rights defenders facing risks to their lives or…

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A coup of his own

Bulatlat Contributors May 21, 2017 Luis Teodoro, Vantage Point

Is President Rodrigo Duterte preparing a coup d’etat à la Marcos against the Republic and himself as a democratically elected president? It was a joke, but like Mr. Duterte’s other off-hand remarks and past one-liners, it had an edge of seriousness in it. Announcing that he would appoint Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief…

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Day: May 21, 2017

Extrajudicial killing of rights defenders

A coup of his own