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Despite heavy snow, Filipinos in the Netherlands held a symbolic protest at the Philippine Embassy in The Hague on Dec. 11 to denounce “state-sponsored” killings under the Duterte administration.
“Everybody should stand up against the tyrant.”
“Why did the soldiers have to kill them? If they were indeed rebels why were they not arrested instead?”
The Communist Party of the Philippines-Central Luzon said the Philippine Army is the only one with the motive to kill Catholic priest Marcelito "Tito" Paez.
“Duterte is ignorant of international humanitarian laws, if not willfully disregarding all of them."
“This is by far the worst attack against the indigenous peoples.”
“We are facing perilous times when no one is safe.”
Catholic priest Marcelito “Tito” Paez, 72, a true servant of God and the people, died in a gun attack on Dec. 4.
Fr. Marcelito “Tito” Paez was shot at 8 this evening in Jaen town, Nueva Ecija. He transpired at a San Leonardo hospital.
Karapatan said the looming extension and expansion of martial law nationwide makes the human rights situation "more urgent and dangerous."
Two development workers arrested in Negros Occidental have been languishing in jail for over a month.
“This brazen killing of a woman human rights defender and her fellow human rights advocates on the eve of International Women’s Human Rights Defenders’ Day is the latest proof of the impunity with which state forces under the Duterte administration commit human rights violations.”
Elisa Badayos of Karapatan-Central Visayas and peasant activist Elioterio Moises were killed in the attack.
"He is a killer that the military shouldn’t emulate and be proud of. The military should even condemn Palparan."
"State terrorism and repression has taken away our family members, who were labeled ‘enemies of the state.’”
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