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“We cannot do anything. But just the same, this is completely a fabricated, planted and manufactured case. This is meant to demonize us and the mass movement.” -- Benito Tiamzon
The Philippine government needs to get serious about protecting human rights defenders, and investigating those who threaten or attack them.
“Raul Desembrana failed to exercise such prudence, caution and attention when he blindly followed his personal caprice and pursued his fancy of having the P80,000 SOP.”
Suspected military agents send snail mail threatening leaders of a government workers’ union to “change your ways.”
Luis Carbajosa, 44, peasant leader of Mabini was in the Order of Battle of the military.
“He promised us, that he would have this case resolved before his administration ends. But where is Jonas now?”
Soldiers turned off the light and then kicked him, causing his blindfold to be removed. When the light was turned on again, he finally saw “Lolo,” whom he later identified as Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan.
“It is difficult to accept that they are gone. But we are not the only ones hurting. They were both a loss to the thousands of Filipinos suffering.”
“If our justice system will continue to serve as a tool of repression that has made environmentalists into an ‘endangered species,’ then it leaves us no other recourse but to seek justice in higher venues of struggle.”
"It’s clear the military is determined to imprison me.”
Staff Sergeant Edgardo Osorio, accused in the disappearance of Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, argues that the kidnapping and detention charges against him cannot stick because the victims are missing.
The dismissal was due to the failure of the prosecution to bring before the court the complainants of the nearly 30-year-old case.
For the the mothers of the disappeared, the silliest question was when the defense lawyer asked if Raymond Manalo has photos or videos of himself, along with the two UP students, to prove his statements.
A witness, a certain Roger Reyes Rodriguez linked all three separate households claiming that he was brought by Ruben Saluta from one house to another in search of a gun that he liked.
"We are disgusted at the lengths that the military would go to impede us from seeking and asserting our rights."
Security guards in a disputed land in Bukidnon fired at Lumads, killing one and wounding two others.
Even as 969 evacuees return to their villages in San Luis town, more than a hundred others remain in Bunawan town.
There have been 36 law practitioners killed in less than five years under President Aquino.
Human rights lawyer Maria Catherine Salucon says the granting of the writs of Amparo and Habeas data may be a “landmark decision” but it does not mean that she would let her guard down.
“We denounce the arming of the Lumad people against their own kin, making them pawns against the government's fight against insurgency.”
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