BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com To date, there have been 601 cases of political killings. Political killings or assassinations may be the appropriate term to describe it. But the way these killings were carried out, the use of authority and superior force over an unarmed and unknowing civilian, is worse than murder. And murder is a…
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State of Wretchedness
What was done to Bayan Muna (People First) Rep. Satur Ocampo – roused from sleep at dawn on March 19 and dragged into a plane that would have brought him to Leyte, where spurious multiple murder charges are filed against him and others – can be taken as a measure of the depths to which…
‘Martial Law Na Ba?’ (Is It Now Martial Law?)
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 4:21 p.m., March 21, 2007 Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) secretary-general RenatoReyes Jr. had one question as he spoke late this morning before a rally of hundreds near the Manila Police District (MPD) in Manila. “Martial law na ba?” (Is it now Martial Law?) Reyes cried as…
‘We Don’t Want Them Dead’
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Posted 4:23 p.m. March 15, 2007 “We don’t want them dead.” This is what the wives of four political activists accused of murder said when asked in a press conference earlier this afternoon whether they would advise their husbands to surface at this time. “All extrajudicial killings started with fabricated…
Rights Groups Blame Killings on Military’s Oplan Bantay Laya
BY DABET CASTANEDA Bulatlat.com Of the 601 victims of political killings in the last five years, many were felled by motorcycle-riding assasins. The Armed Forces of the Philippines claims a “purge” within the revolutionary movement is to be blamed. But human rights watch groups point to death squads formed under Oplan Bantay Laya, the Arroyo…
NDF’s Jalandoni Speaks on ‘Kampanyang Ahos’
A few weeks ago, the Philippine Daily Inquirer ran a three-part series on “Kampanyang Ahos” which, according to the underground Left, the government and its media connections have used to discredit the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. PDI’s own reporter, Juan Escandor, Jr. did a follow-up on the series, this time getting the side…