By DEE AYROSO
Heaven and Hell
Tags: Ampatuan
Elusive justice, political accommodation and economic power
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective “We are having difficulties fighting the moneyed Ampatuans.” This was a heart rending statement from Grace Morales – who lost her husband, Rossell, and her older sister, Marites Cablitas, in the Maguindanao massacre – as quoted in an inquirer.net special report Maguindanao massacre: Victims’ kin losing hope. And to think,…
On 2nd anniversary of Ampatuan massacre: Aquino told to end impunity
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“The eyes of the whole world are on the Philippines because of this crime and especially because until now, there is no justice and the killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations continue.” – Nestor Burgos, National Union of Journalists of the Philippines
Sidebar: Groups laud filing of case vs Arroyo for Ampatuan massacre
Groups laud filing of case vs Arroyo for Ampatuan massacre
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com Main Story: On 2nd anniversary of Ampatuan massacre: Aquino told to end impunity MANILA – “There are no Ampatuans if Arroyo did not coddle warlords and private armies.” This was the statement of Hustisya!, an organization of families of victims of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights violations…
Alliance against impunity formed
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA –Wearing a black dress, Monette Salaysay took the stage and began speaking. Her voice broke and her tears fell the moment she uttered the name of her husband, Napoleon, one of the 32 journalists killed in the Maguindanao massacre on November 23, 2009. “After two years, I thought I…
Aquino pressed to dismantle CAFGU’s, probe Arroyo for Ampatuan aid
News Release November 17, 2010 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today supported calls for the dismantling of all paramilitary groups after Human Rights Watch issued the recommendations in its report on the Ampatuan massacre and the complicity of the Philippine state. HRW said that many of the perpetrators of human rights violations in Maguindanao…
Salungguhit: History of Violence
History of Violence
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | What’s Missing
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com The ongoing trial of foremost Maguindanao massacre suspect, Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., has raised hopes in some quarters that justice will be soon rendered to the 58 victims (57 whose remains have been found with 1 still missing). Four other Ampatuans including the patriarch, former…
CPLA Same as Ampatuan Army, Cordi Reds Say
By ALDWIN QUITASOL NORTHERN DISPATCH POSTED BY Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) — The leader of a Cordillera-based underground revolutionary group said the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army is in the same sinking boat as the Ampatuan private army and other armed groups pampered by the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration. In a statement sent…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Frankenstein Begets Frankenstein
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat.com The declaration of martial law in Maguindanao is not the answer to the cry for justice for the victims of the Nov. 23 massacre allegedly perpetrated by top local government officials allied to the Arroyo regime – all members of the warlord Ampatuan clan –…
Strike Against Impunity, Strike for Peace and Democracy
Today we say, “Enough.” Nov 27, 2009 The massacre of 57 people in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao goes beyond a rido or clan war. The sheer scope of barbarity, the brazenness of the murders betrays the perpetrators’ belief in being beyond the reach of the law. Women, lawyers and journalists – no one escaped the butchers’…