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"Do everything to get out, so that there will be someone who will tell what really happened here."
“Refusal and resistance is an indictment of the state that boasts of respecting the rights of the indigenous peoples.”
“We are ‘notorious’ only in the hearts of those who make the people suffer, but we are loved by the people.”
“At long last, after eight years, the Manalo brothers will finally have an inch towards the path of justice.”
“The SONA overkill security preparations are indications of a regime that is scared witless of the people’s defiance and actions.”
Katribu calls for the scrapping of Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan and the dismantling of a government commission before the United Nations Human Rights Council.
"The Lumads have sought refuge in UCCP after fleeing their villages that have been overrun by the military. Now the police are driving them away with brute force.”
Tension rises as farmers assert their right to till in Salvador Benedicto town, Negros Occidental.
“These organizations love this nation and the people. The police and the military should go instead after thieves and rights violators.”- ACT Teachers’ Rep. Antonio Tinio
“..The defendants, in concert with each other, willfully and feloniously committed gross and systematic violations of the Filipino people’s basic human rights.”
“When the US says jump, the Philippines would ask, to which floor, Your Honor?”
“I really believed, while I was in there, that they were really going to kill me.”
“This tribunal will contribute to this record and, hopefully, the people will use its results to end impunity.”
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“With the appointment of Gen. Año as army chief there is no hope at all that justice will be obtained for human rights crimes during the watch of Aquino.”
“The fabricated charges against them have no merit at all, and all of the allegations are merely products of the AFP’s utak-pulbura imagination.”
“The Filipino people have long been suffering from deprivation of basic social services like health services. I know that there is nothing wrong in what I am doing.”
“Is the AFP trying to play catch-up with the horrid human rights record of the previous administration?”
“If this senate hearing pushes through, it will be a good venue to really talk about the issue and to have all the parties involved to face each other.”
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