By ROD TAJON Northern Dispatch VIGAN CITY – Human rights violations among children under Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan only unmasks the program’s dreadful character, a child rights group said. Jacquiline Ruiz, executive director of Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC), an institution providing psychosocial help to children victims of state violence said that these incidents involved military units…
Category: Human Rights
Fearing eviction, farmers, urban poor unite vs MRT 7 project
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com SAN JOSE DEL MONTE, Bulacan – Hilaria “Violy” San Jose, 44, brought with her some of their fresh produce—rambutan, balimbing, guyabano, kamoteng kahoy and saba. “If the MRT 7 project pushes through, we could no longer have fresh fruits and vegetables,” Violy told an assembly of farmers, urban poor and…
‘Palparan should go to jail, not to Congress’
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – “He is so shameless!” This was the reaction of Concepcion Empeño, mother of missing activist Karen Empeño on Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr.’s recent announcement about his plan to run for a partylist seat in 2013. Palparan, then commanding general of the 7th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army,…
Tie AFP budget to human rights record, says ACT solon
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com A progressive lawmaker in the House of Representatives continue to fight for a pro-poor 2012 national budget by submitting amendments. Earlier this week, Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Representative Antonio L. Tinio submitted proposed amendments to House Bill 5023 or the General Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2012 to…
No NPA camp overrun; 1st PBC ambush downs 8 AFP troops in Paquibato
By Bulatlat.com DAVAO City– Eight soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ 69th IB were killed and an undetermined number were wounded after a team of the New People’s Army’s 1st Pulang Bagani Company engaged them in a firefight on Sept. 19 at 1:15 pm. It was reportedly preceded by an explosion of seven…
Witnesses recount abduction of UP students by military
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The abduction could not be carried out without Palparan’s knowledge,” Olalia told Bulatlat.com in an interview shortly after the hearing. “They [soldiers] were all under Task Force Malolos. It’s a conspiracy. His men would not act without his knowledge.”
Groups urge Aquino to free all political prisoners in marking martial law
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“President Aquino reminisces about his family’s sufferings under Martial Law, but he callously ignores the suffering of other families whose loved ones are jailed not under martial law, but under the Aquino government.” — Marie Hilao-Enriquez, Karapatan chairwoman
Sidebar: Ailing political prisoner dies in prison | Youth, artists ‘plank’ to commemorate martial law | Video: ‘Nothing has changed’ since martial law – Mrs. Burgos
Ailing political prisoner dies in prison
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – A political prisoner who had been in and out of the hospital for almost a year due to heart enlargement died last Sept. 20. Crisanto Fat, 48, a peasant leader, passed away at the Western Visayas Hospital in Bacolod City at around 4:30 p.m. that day. He left…
Youth, artists ‘plank’ to commemorate martial law
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — As the Philippines commemorate the 39th year since former President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, youth and progressive artists ‘planked’ to denounce the continuing human rights violations despite the supposed restoration of so-called democracy in the country. “As human rights violations continue to escalate, the Filipino people…
‘Nothing has changed’ since martial law – Mrs. Burgos
Video: ‘Nothing has changed’ since martial law – Mrs. Burgos
News in Pictures: Candle lighting and planking protest
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JHUN DANTES JR.