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Bulatlat Contributors | Dec 5, 2009
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Slideshow: Five Years Since Luisita Massacre, Justice Remains Elusive
Slideshow: Five Years Since Luisita Massacre, Justice Remains Elusive
Justice Remains Elusive in Luisita
The Arroyo Regime’s Complicity in Ampatuan Massacre
The Arroyo Regime’s Complicity in Ampatuan Massacre
Arroyo's Complicity in Ampatuan Massacre
In Northern Mindanao, Tears Flow Over Human-Rights Abuses
In Northern Mindanao, Tears Flow Over Human-Rights Abuses
By MACARIO PACANA
At the International Peace and Human Rights Summit in Cagayan de Oro City, victims and witnesses of human-rights abuses take turns recounting their appalling ordeal in the hands of the military and its paramilitary forces.
‘Political Prisoners Prove Insincerity of Arroyo Regime in Peace Talks’
‘Political Prisoners Prove Insincerity of Arroyo Regime in Peace Talks’
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Of the 284 political prisoners in the Philippines, 257 were arrested and detained under the present regime’s Oplan Bantay Laya. In a statement, Selda said the militarist approach of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has scuttled the peace talks between the government and the Moro secessionist groups in Mindanao and the New People’s Army.
‘Dukot’ Now Being Shown Commercially
‘Dukot’ Now Being Shown Commercially
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The human-right film Dukot (Desaparecidos) is now being shown in major cinemas beginning on Dec. 2, a few days before the International Day of Human Rights on Dec. 10.
Audio Slideshow: The Hills of Maguindanao, Bathed in Blood
Audio Slideshow: The Hills of Maguindanao, Bathed in Blood
The Hills of Ampatuan, Bathed in Blood
Ampatuan Massacre Highlights Continuing Violence Vs Women: Gabriela Women’s Party
Ampatuan Massacre Highlights Continuing Violence Vs Women: Gabriela Women’s Party
By MARYA SALAMAT
The commemoration of the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (VAW) in the Philippines got a piercing highlight in the Ampatuan massacre that occurred two days before the anti-VAW's day last week. “What happened in Maguindanao underscored the vulnerability of women amid fierce struggles as in an electoral struggle,” Gabriela partylist representative and aspiring senator Liza Maza said.
Ampatuan Massacre Raises Level of Barbarity in Philippine Politics
Ampatuan Massacre Raises Level of Barbarity in Philippine Politics
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
The impunity in recent political killings in the Philippines could have emboldened the Ampatuan clan to commit the massacre. If the perpetrators of more than a thousand extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of political activists could walk scot-free, perhaps, they thought, they could get away with killing less than a hundred people.
MILF: Ampatuan Claim a ‘Weird Statement,” Massacre an ‘Act of Animals’
MILF: Ampatuan Claim a ‘Weird Statement,” Massacre an ‘Act of Animals’
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
“The MILF has no presence there, the place is near the checkpoints of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu), and is also near the Army station,” says the MILF’s Mohagher Iqbal. “So how could they accuse the MILF of having a hand in the massacre?”
12 Journalists, Several Others Killed in Maguindanao Massacre
12 Journalists, Several Others Killed in Maguindanao Massacre
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
“The Ampatuan massacre goes beyond the issue of freedom of the press and of expression and strikes at the very foundations of democracy. This incident not only erases all doubts about the Philippines being the most dangerous country for journalists in the world, outside of Iraq, it could very well place the country on the map as a candidate for a failed democracy.”
Why Workers Abhor Assumption of Jurisdiction (AJ) orders
Why Workers Abhor Assumption of Jurisdiction (AJ) orders
By MARYA SALAMAT
Unlike other post-martial law administrations that used assumption of jurisdictions (AJ) mostly to quell already ongoing strikes, the Arroyo regime has used these orders not only to quell ongoing strikes but also to make sure workers cannot strike at all. As a result, fewer strikes have been recorded, allowing Arroyo to claim that “industrial peace” is improving. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
For Viewers of ‘Dukot,’ Reality Bites
For Viewers of ‘Dukot,’ Reality Bites
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Many of those who watched the recent premiere of the movie “Dukot” got out of the theater teary-eyed – and enlightened about the atrocious human-rights situation in the Philippines.
At Last, Philippines Now Has Law Against Torture
At Last, Philippines Now Has Law Against Torture
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Human-rights advocate welcome the signing into law of Republic Act 9745, which penalizes acts of torture in the Philippines. The challenge now, they say, is for the Arroyo administration to effectively implement it, given its sordid human-rights record.
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