“The madness must stop.
Rights groups call for stop to spate of alleged drug-related killings
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Int’l rights monitor urges Aquino to go after paramilitary, Army officials in Lumad attacks
“Paramilitaries in Mindanao have been terrorizing tribal people, while the military, at best, does nothing.”
Aquino urged to disband paramilitary in protests abroad, online
“The government needs to make clear that the military, paramilitaries, and the companies that underwrite the projects linked to these human rights violations will no longer enjoy impunity.”
Dispatches: Whitewashing internal displacement in Ph
As of May, there were more than 260,000 IDPs in the Philippines, the result of conflict and natural disasters. Too often the government talks the talk while neglecting them – or worse.
US participation in Zamboanga City attack, start of deepening US intervention
“In allowing the US military to interfere in Philippine internal affairs, the Aquino regime is paving the way for US interventionism on a larger scale in the future.”
Anatomy of the ‘Tagum death squad’, a Human Rights Watch report
“The Philippines is in ‘a death squad denial.’ – Human Rights Watch