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“This is one step forward in our struggle. It is a good and beautiful beginning.”
“As teachers, it is our duty to stop this appalling disrespect of history.”
How the promulgation will go on Monday, Sept. 17, matters to the Filipino people especially in light of the widespread, gross, and brutal killings under President Rodrigo Duterte, who virtually promised to absolve involved erring state security officers, particularly the police.
“The whole country is kept ignorant of our plight."
“Still, I would like to believe there is justice. I will fight for my son.”
Three mothers of victims of Duterte's drug war narrate how they have risen up from grief and despair to finding hope in the struggle for justice.
“The poor have been striving hard to get out of poverty but the President’s answer buried them instead, literally and figuratively.”
The UP community called on UP President Concepcion to institutionalize the honoring of Martial Law victims and martyrs in the university, create more spaces for their historical role in overthrowing the Marcos regime, and providing courses for in-depth discussion of the Martial Law atrocities.
“They evaded all the substantial issues we have raised right from the very beginning.”
“Academic freedom is less a matter of individual preference than the power and duty of a collective to defend human lives against killing machines, truth against lies and historical revisionism, and spaces of freedom against institutional complicity.”
A barangay councilor who were with the victims at the time of the incident said that Gilbert Labial saw the assailant on their way home but were trapped and repeatedly shot by the assasins.
“I want to see them rot in jail. These officers, owing from their corrupt institution, were cruel. They do not respect people or care about rights; they will surely do this again to someone else if given the opportunity, falsely charging another person for money."
In Philippine politics, when corrupt politicians want the people to move on, what they mean is they want their crimes forgotten.
Respondents in the complaint “were not identified to have personally attacked the complainants and there is no evidence showing that force employed, if there was any, by any respondent is of a serious character.”
"...we stress that the crime of which Mr. Ampatuan is accused of is of such a heinous nature that the shock and outrage it stirred around the world forced then President Gloria Arroyo to move against the powerful clan that was among her staunchest allies."
“We boast of them as among the best sons and daughters of our motherland.”–Concha Araneta
At the time of their arrest, Oliver didn’t carry any bag. Rowena only had a small sling bag which, Karapatan said, could not hold the firearms they supposedly have.
“If these are truly the handiwork of the reconstituted IACLA as some quarters have alleged, then this body requires reexamination as did its predecessor, the Interagency Legal Action Group under Arroyo, which was abolished upon the recommendation of the United Nations.”
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