Bicol human rights leader shot dead
Sorsogon human rights leader Teodoro "Tudoy" Escanilla was shot dead on Aug. 19 midnight, at his home.
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Sorsogon human rights leader Teodoro "Tudoy" Escanilla was shot dead on Aug. 19 midnight, at his home.
"These trumped-up charges against us are acts of desperation.”
“Are they really trying to delay the case until ‘berdugong’ Palparan and his co-accused are free from accountability?”
“It is ironic that our letter signed by the judge was honored. But the judge herself was not allowed to enter.”
“It is difficult enough to be a rights defender. But it is more difficult when one is a woman.”
As of May, there were more than 260,000 IDPs in the Philippines, the result of conflict and natural disasters. Too often the government talks the talk while neglecting them – or worse.
“It is the accused who will benefit the most because they are shopping for a more favorable or sympathetic judge. The obvious game plan is to dribble and plod.”
“We are two different entities that looked into the same picture and drew the same conclusions.”
"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.”
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"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.”
“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.”
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