How the legal system is used to attack political dissenters
"The police and military have mastered the art of preparing false documents to justify the filing of fabricated charges.”
"The police and military have mastered the art of preparing false documents to justify the filing of fabricated charges.”
With all its pretensions for peace and development, Duterte’s counterinsurgency is brutal to the core.
The counterinsurgency policy is not only targeted against the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People's Army (NPA) but against perceived supporters or any groups standing in the way of the administration’s political and economic interests.
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“We need to keep the fire burning especially now that Duterte has utilized the entire machinery of government against the people."
For someone who lost a father and a mother, and whose husband has been detained, Jimmylisa admits there were times she wallowed in depression. She said her very name, taken from her parents, reminds her to be strong. “How could I not live up to their legacy?”
“The NDF greets the CPP in its ability to stay strong despite continuing attack and urges the people of the Southern Tagalog region to rise up and join the struggle.”
The families also seek a dialogue with the BJMP officials “to put a stop to such unreasonable, illegal and unjust prohibitions that violate the right of families and friends of political prisoners to visit them.”
Peace talks comes primarily because in the country’s hinterlands, a people’s army, guided by a communist party, is building organs of democratic political power. And in various sites, the communist bid for land redistribution, national industrialization, and a participatory planned economy through socialism is paralleled by organized, institutionalized and legitimate endeavors pursuing the same vision. This is enough for a government that is provisionally hijacked by compradors and imperialists to talk peace and reforms.
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"I need justice for my dad. 'Pag di kumpleto numero, 'di kumpleto hustisya."
“This serves as a crack to the impunity in the killings of journalists.”
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) welcomed the decision as initial victory in the long quest for justice.
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