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Progressives’ pre-SONA advice to Aquino: ‘Quit lying’
“If he will again sugarcoat and put rhetoric in his SONA, surely it will have no effect because the public is already enlightened how a ‘disaster president’ he was.”
IPT 2015 | ‘Aquino government silences critics’
A protest highlights an international court’s “guilty” verdict on Philippine President Aquino and US President Barack Obama.
IPT 2015 | US, PH gov’t ‘guilty of rights violations’ – tribunal
“..The defendants, in concert with each other, willfully and feloniously committed gross and systematic violations of the Filipino people’s basic human rights.”
IPT 2015 | ‘US gov’t violates Filipino people’s right to self-determination’
“When the US says jump, the Philippines would ask, to which floor, Your Honor?”
IPT 2015 | Haiyan victim, OFWs, peasants testify on joblessness, poverty under Aquino govt
“The Filipino people’s economic, social and cultural rights are similarly wantonly violated. The government of Defendant (President Benigno S. Aquino III) presides over the highest number of unemployed and underemployed Filipinos in the country’s history.”
‘Still no justice’ | Torture survivors under Arroyo govt testify before IPT
“I really believed, while I was in there, that they were really going to kill me.”
IPT 2015 | Int’l court hears victims of rights abuses by Aquino, US govts
“This tribunal will contribute to this record and, hopefully, the people will use its results to end impunity.”
Related story | ‘Still no justice’ | Torture survivors under Arroyo govt
US gov’t bars woman leader
“The curtailment of the right to travel and liberty of movement of former House representative Liza Maza shows how the US government transgresses on the basic rights and freedoms of individuals and groups, even those outside its territory.”