By DEE AYROSO
So many firsts
Month: March 2018
Blaming the victim
They said they weren’t pressured — nor, presumably, bought and paid-for, promised any favors or gifts, or intimidated — to make it. But the call by some judges, lawyers, and Supreme Court employees for Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to resign so obviously blames the victim for the decline of public respect for the Supreme…
‘We’re all challenged to defend the environment’ — Bibiaon Bigkay
She doesn’t fear Duterte’s threat of killing them all; she fears more the threat of seeing our natural resources, and the virgin forest, destroyed.
Duterte’s ‘order of battle,’ a portent of an imminent dictatorship?
“This poison list disguising as petition filed by the DOJ is actually a kill list and an arrest list. Anyone can be a target of extrajudicial killing or illegal arrest using this DOJ petition as a pretext. An alias in the list can be alleged to anyone and that is what makes the petition and list even more precarious.”
Duterte gov’t’s proclivity for short cuts backfires
People have been saying this all along; the Duterte administration could not solve the illegal drug problem with the use of uncontrolled violence and shortcuts that disregard human rights. And they were right. The Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs has not made a dent on the illegal drug trade despite more than 12,000 extrajudicial,…
Shotgun witchhunt
By DEE AYROSO
‘Heed lessons of old dams’ | Groups oppose China stakes in mega-dam projects
The dam projects will flood communities, drive away residents and redirect the river’s water away from farming communities.
8 dead, 2 disappeared on Duterte’s terror list
“The scriptwriters of these lists could care less about whether these persons are already dead or reported missing, so long as they can cover a wide range of activists and rights defenders to implicate.”
‘Duterte wants to be immune,’ groups say of PH withdrawal from Rome Statute
“He wants to be immune and act with impunity both under domestic law and under international law.”
Seeing red
By DEE AYROSO
‘We will not be cowed’ | Human rights defender slams DOJ’s ‘terror list’
“By implication, they are all being branded as ‘terrorists’ and to add my name and those of the NDFP peace negotiation panel and consultants, eight deceased individuals and at least 185 easily replaceable aliases exposes even more the list’s absurdity.” – Elisa Tita Lubi