While staging a lightning rally at the foot of the Chino Roces Bridge, also known as the Mendiola Bridge last Sept 26, doctors and other health workers led by Health Action for Human Rights (HAHR) were violently dispersed by police, who also arrested one of the group’s leaders. BY PHILIP PARAAN HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Contributed…
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Kalinga Mission Questions Police Sincerity in Solving Political Killings
Constancio “Chandu” Claver, a doctor in Kalinga for the past 25 years, accused the government and the military of masterminding the attack that killed his wife, Alice, and traumatized his seven-year-old daughter Cassandra. “We believe that the killers of my wife are death squads brought here by the military and the Arroyo regime to try…