UTRECHT, The Netherlands (30 May 2010) – The International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL), a worldwide grouping of public interest and human rights lawyers, challenged the incoming Philippine administration of presumptive president-elect Sen. Benigno Aquino III to immediately and vigorously pursue all legal moves to make accountable outgoing president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies for…
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Escalante Massacre Remembered, Militants Say ‘De Facto Martial Rule’ Exists
Protesters commemorated the massacre of 20 activists and wounding of tens of others in Escalate town during Martial Law. Twenty-one years after the massacre, the military perpetrators in the killing remain unpunished, while the massacre survivors and the families of those killed are yet to be indemnified. BY KARL G. OMBION Bulatlat.com BACOLOD City –…
Tata Pido: Staying Alive, Struggling On
Veteran fisherfolk activist Peter “Tata Pido” Gonzalez survived Martial Law without being touched by government soldiers. It is only under the current regime that he had his near-brush with death. He survived an attempt on his life but continues to fight, saying we are now under a regime worse than that of Marcos. BY DENNIS…
Marching Backwards: The Spectacle of Fear
By John Cory Truthout/Perspective International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) Everything old is new again. It may be 2009 but the rhetoric is strictly 1950 when a man held up a sheet of paper and declared, “I have here in my hand a list of names …” Glenn Beck is not original, nor was Joe McCarthy. The…
Disqualification Case Filed vs. Palparan
BY CHARMAINE P. LIRIO Bulatlat Leaders of progressive party-list groups and families of victims of extra-judicial killings filed today a petition for quo warranto before the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET), seeking to disqualify Retired Major Gen. Jovito Palparan from becoming a representative. In an interview with Bulatlat, Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano said Palparan…
Torture Survivors Recount Ordeal Before UN Body
Victims of torture under the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration traveled all the way to Geneva, Switzerland to tell their stories of torture during the 42nd Session of the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT).
Kin, Supporters Mark 2nd Year of Jonas’s Abduction
BY JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO AND MARIANNE B. MIRAMBEL Bulatlat To mark the second year anniversary of his abduction, family members, friends and supporters of activist Jonas Burgos gathered today in a mass at Camp Agunaldo’s Gate 1. Jonas, son of the late press freedom hero Jose Burgos, a farmer and an advocate of human…
Activists Wield Cyberspace vs. Palparan
BY RONALYN OLEA Bulatlat Activists and supporters have wielded the cyberspace in their campaign against retired Major Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. As of 10:13 pm on April 26, 2009, more than 1,000 people on the popular social networking site Facebook have joined the cause “Palparan should be in jail, not in Congress nor any other…
Kin, Friends Renew Calls for Surfacing of Abducted Cordi Activist
The family, clan, colleagues, as well as friends of missing Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) member James Moy Balao held a photo exhibit and information drive on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings at the public market of La Trinidad, Benguet on April 17, the 213th day of his disappearance. BY ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch HUMAN RIGHTS…
IFI Priest Unfazed by Threats from the Military
Rev. Fr. Dionito M. Cabillas or Fr. Diony to his parishioners and colleagues, received information that he was included in the ‘top ten’ of the military’s order of battle. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat On March 12, at around 8:25 a.m., Fr. Rex Reyes, Jr., general secretary of the National Council of…
Ilocos CHR Orders PNP to Submit Evidence on Manegdeg’s Killing
The Commission on Human Rights in the Ilocos Region ordered the Philippine National Police to submit documents and pieces of evidence in their possession on the extra-judicial killing of Jose “Pepe” Manegdeg III. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat SAN ESTEBAN, Ilocos Sur (363 kms. North of Manila)– The…