“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass
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‘Ruthless legacy’ | 7 activists killed in August
SPECIAL REPORT: “There is no let-up in extrajudicial killings with BS Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan.” – Karapatan
AFP counterinsurgency drive inside public schools
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star In pursuing its counterinsurgency program, dubbed “Oplan Bayanihan,” the Armed Forces of the Philippines has used schools, hospitals, clinics, and religious places in blatant violation of certain national and international laws and conventions. From July 2010 to December 2013, the human rights alliance Karapatan…
Prosecutor’s dismissal of case against accused soldiers in Capion massacre slammed
“As families and friends commemorate the death of Juvy Capion and her two sons, the decision comes as an insult to the family and to all the victims of human rights violations and also shows the weakness of the Aquino administration to render justice to its aggrieved citizens.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate
3 local tourists nabbed in Sagada, tagged as rebels
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW and KIMBERLIE N. QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) condemned police operatives for the illegal arrest and detention of three local tourists in Sagada, Mountain Province, Sept. 9. CHRA secretary general Jude Baggo identified the three as Aileen Cruz, Rey Busania and Ofelia Inong. On…
Rights groups propose ‘zero budget’ for Oplan Bayanihan, Defense department
“Public funds are being used to kill the people and perpetrate thousands of rights violations.” – Karapatan
‘Treachery, lies,’ slammed in Malacañang’s justifications for increased US troop presence
“The Aquino government is still trying to deceive the people that the US is out to help the Philippines against China. It is playing up ‘the threat of China’ while playing down the history and reality of US military interventions.” – KMU
‘Curing the symptom rather than the disease’
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last Thursday, AFP Chief Gen. Emmanuel Bautista called a command conference at Camp Aguinaldo to assess the military operations in the first half of 2013 under Oplan Bayanihan, the Aquino government’s counterinsurgency plan. The assessment was a mixture of success and failure. Nonetheless, Bautista…
Military operations in DavSur result to abuses, rights group says
“The military has been committing grave abuses against civilians through its peace and development operations under the Aquino government’s counter-insurgency operational plan Bayanihan.” – Pastor Sadrach Sabella, Karapatan-Socsksargends coordinator
Military rules in Bicol region
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Schools and village halls are being used as camps by soldiers. Residents have to seek the permission of the military and sign in their logbooks whenever they go in and out of the community.
Break-ins seen as prelude to Aquino’s increased efforts to silence critics
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The Aquino government is gravely mistaken if it thinks it can silence activists who are voicing out the people’s growing dissatisfaction with their regime. – Elmer Labog, KMU chairman