“Hunger. This is what we have been experiencing. I hope our government officials would stop lying.”
Tags: Kidapawan Massacre
Tanghalian
Ni PEACE FLORES Kumakalam na naman ang sikmura ng nagbubungkal ng lupa. Tagtuyot kasi. Walang makakain kapag nalanta ang pananim. Walang laman ang kamalig. Walang maisasaing kahit magtatanghali na. Kaya ang nagbubungkal ng lupa, sumangguni sa pamahalaan. Humingi ng makakain dahil tuyo ang lupa. Humingi ng butil ng bigas. Ang tugon ng namamahala? Butil nga.…
Pooled Editorial | Journalists denounce police intimidation and harassment in Kidapawan coverage
AlterMidya, a nationwide network of independent media organizations, denounces police intimidation and attempts to suppress information by preventing journalists from covering the aftermath of the April 1 Kidapawan massacre. The Cotabato police set up a checkpoint outside the Spottswood United Methodist Center where the protesting farmers retreated after Friday’s violent dispersal. Setting up a checkpoint…
BigasHindiBala
The violent dispersal by the police of the 6000-strong protest by farmers and lumad (indigenous people of Mindanao) in Kidapawan, North Cotobato last April 1 could be dismissed as just another incident in the long list of clashes between state security forces and citizens airing their grievances against government. But this is different. This has…
Yellow-washing
Undeclared martial law in Kidapawan? | Rights violations continue to escalate, groups say
“The brazen human rights violation and martial law in North Cotabato is madness in the highest order.”
Journalists harassed in Kidapawan coverage
“It is the responsibility of the Philippine National Police to ensure their safety as they do their job as journalists.”
United Methodist, church groups join clamor for justice for Kidapawan massacre victims
“The United Methodist Church deplores violence of any kind, and we are praying for a just and peaceful solution that upholds the dignity and protects the human rights of all persons.”
‘Cover-up’ | Solon slams police search in farmers’ sanctuary in Kidapawan
“The search warrant only adds more insult to the injury inflicted by the government to the starving farmers. Why they are being searched? They are not the violent rousers, it’s the police who started the dispersal upon the order of Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza.”
Neglect of farmers led to Kidapawan massacre
“Aquino’s unparalleled incompetence and gross negligence in addressing the prolonged drought is among the main culprit in the bloody carnage of farmers in Kidapawan.”
Intl rights groups assail Kidapawan massacre
“The Aquino government will pay for this carnage, and it will pay dearly. The history of peasant movements of the world is nothing if not instructive.”