Dee Ayroso is a self-taught illustrator and was a Bulatlat editor before she focused on cartooning. Comics is where her flaws and strengths in writing and drawing can sit together and have coffee.
Dee Ayroso is a self-taught illustrator and was a Bulatlat editor before she focused on cartooning. Comics is where her flaws and strengths in writing and drawing can sit together and have coffee.
“Paramilitaries in Mindanao have been terrorizing tribal people, while the military, at best, does nothing.”
“The situation within the Philippine waters has reached the level of crisis and the fisherfolk are struggling to survive.”
“Military occupation of civilian institutions and killing of civilians...are unacceptable, deplorable and contrary to international human rights and international humanitarian standards.”
Japan’s new security laws amends its pacifist constitution.
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As “force multipliers” for the Philippine Army, paramilitary groups were also multipliers of its human rights abuses in the past four decades.
“We have no discord, they are our brothers...but when the military armed them, they no longer recognize us as kin. And it hurts, because Lumads are being killed by other Lumads.”
“Their murder is the murder of the peoples’ soul.”
“These killings are under the context of the counterinsurgency program which is running short on a deadline.”
“The new Aguinaldos, Buencaminos and Paternos are still selling us down the river to foreign interests.”
“This mining conference’s top sponsors are also the leading sponsors of paramilitary groups that have sown terror across the mine-affected communities especially in Mindanao."
The three men brutally slain in the rampage by a paramilitary group in Surigao del Sur were laid to rest, amid calls for justice and the prosecution of their killers, suspected of following military orders.
“Be assured, my dear friends, be assured again, that you don’t stand alone.”
“General Iriberri, your fellow Surigaonons are being slaughtered in the military’s implementation of counter-insurgency operations.”
Lumad victims from Lianga, Surigao del Sur recounted the horrors of the Sept.1 rampage by a paramilitary group, who entered their community along with soldiers.
“We urge law enforcement authorities to do their part so that the killing rampage of these armed paramilitary groups can be immediately stopped.”
“Not a single cent to the military monsters.”
“No perpetrator has been arrested, while the 36th and 75th infantry battalion and Special Forces of the Armed Forces of the Philippines continue their military operations in the mountain areas."
Grief, anger and indignation sent protesters out to the streets last week, calling for justice for victims of killings by paramilitary and military groups in Mindanao, and other parts of the country.
Faced with the reign of terror by paramilitary and military, Lumad communities were forced to leave their homes – again.
Paramilitary groups, suspected of collusion with the military, have killed five people in five days, and caused massive forced evacuation.
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