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“We are alarmed by the Duterte administration’s continuous, intended choice to violate human rights and fundamental freedoms of its own people.”
On human rights day, progressives mourn ‘bayan ng ulila’ as killings, rights violations continue.
Forensic expert Raquel Fortun noted that in most cases the police will immediately bring the remains to the hospital, destroying the crime scene when authorities are supposed to "freeze" it and allow an independent team to probe it.
"They should’ve let us know, so we’d know where to find our son. If he didn’t call, we wouldn’t know where to find him. They didn’t let us know. He has a family here. He has kids. He has parents.They should have let us know before they took him to a different city."
“We need to have an open work permit to protect ourselves from abusive employers. An employer specific work permit encourages inhumane treatment – in our pursuit of 24 months completion to qualify for permanent presidency, we endure disrespect and belittling insults,.”
Edre U. Olalia, legal consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) negotiating panel, said the "non-bailable murder charges are trumped-up and sprang out of nowhere."
In a protest action today in Mendiola, Kadamay said the infrastructure projects will only lead to demolition of houses, without decent relocation offers to affected residents.
Nang isinasara na ang paaralan gamit ang kahoy, pako at martilyo, nakatutok ang mga armas sa sino mang lumapit. Banta ng Alamara sa mga guro at estudyante, “Kung hindi kayo aalis ngayong araw, may mangyayari.”
The two-hour play emphasized the historic role of the Kabataang Makabayan (KM) in continuing the unfinished Philippine revolution against foreign and feudal domination in the country. The lessons from the decades-long uprising waged by KM were creatively portrayed through the play. It laid down the different levels of contradictions faced by youth activists in their eagerness to offer their lives for the revolution.
“We need to show them that we are not buying their story line-- the victims are the ones being blamed and a child survivor is being forced to pin down innocent persons for the crime.”
Lester has repeatedly said he could not identify the perpetrators since it was very dark when the incident took place. The police kept on hounding the child, to force upon him the “distorted narrative of the PNP [Philippine National Police] and the military.”
The spotlight shines ever more brightly on the plight of political prisoners in the Philippines as the Duterte administration remains adamant not to put behind bars Imelda Marcos, the other half of the conjugal dictatorship that ruled the country during the dark and turbulent years of the Marcos authoritarian rule who was recently found guilty over several counts of graft cases.
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