BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO I wrote “The Rebel’s Child” on March 15, 2009 a few days after a fellow public school teacher, Rebelyn Pitao aged 21years, was kidnapped, raped, and brutally killed by military elements. And all because she was her father’s daughter. On...
Press Release March 5, 2010 Davao City — Eight Thousand farmers, lumad, urban poor, teachers, women and youth flocked from Freedom Park to Rizal Park today (March 5) to demand justice for the murder of Rebelyn Pitao and all victims of political killings. Rebelyn,...
Families of slain political activists in Southern Mindanao join progressive groups in a picket in front of the 10th Infantry Division Headquarters in Camp Panacan, Davao City. (Photos by Barry Ohaylan /...
As the Philippine National Police (PNP) exonerated the military from the murder of Rebelyn Pitao, the New People's Army (NPA) carried out what it calls 'revolutionary' punishment against four alleged perpetrators. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat The Philippine National...
The Arroyos are destined to exit from the Philippine political scene in disgrace, perhaps even worse than the dictator Marcos. BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World Posted by Bulatlat The Lozada perjury case may be the most celebrated example of the...
Impunity and desperation in a murderous, corrupt, and undemocratic regime is a dangerous combination. It brings back memories of Martial Law. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS Bulatlat Karapatan has raised the alarm over the surge in extrajudicial killings during the...
BY THE PHILIPPINE ECUMENICAL PEACE PLATFORM DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat The Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform condemns in the strongest terms the brutal murder of Rebelyn Pitao, 20-yr old daughter of Leoncio Pitao, aka “Ka Parago”, a known ranking leader...
PAHAYAG NG CONGRESS OF TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC SPACE Inilathala ng Bulatlat Isa na namang sibilyan ang pinatay ng rehimeng US-Arroyo. Marso 4, Lunsod ng Davao, takipsilim, isang puting van ang humarang sa traysikel na...
POSTED BY BULATLAT COMBUSTION By Katrina Macapagal “It is not the policy of the military to involve the family or children of the rebels in our fight. We are open for investigation and we will cooperate with any investigation regarding this.” -- Maj. Gen. Raymundo...
Rebelyn was wearing her white school teacher’s uniform when she left home to go to work. “Ma, lakaw na ko (Ma, I have to go now),” she called out to her mother Evangeline. It was 6:30 a.m. – the last time Mrs. Pitao saw her 20-year old daughter. It was the last...
Bambi Santos was an activist, a full-time staff member of the national democratic alliance, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN). She was killed at the age of twenty-seven, in what military authorities said was an encounter. Witnesses contend however that there was a...
BY BP. FELIXBERTO CALANG Chairperson, InPeace Mindanao DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat I extend my deepest sympathy to the family of Ka Parago and Evangeline Pitao over the loss of their daughter Rebelyn. It comes as a shock to hear of such news. I pray that...
It is a violation of international humanitarian law to torture and kill a captive even if he or she is an enemy; it is the worst form of human rights violation to forcibly abduct, torture, rape and kill a person simply because of his or her political beliefs. What...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat A Filipino youth group based in the Netherlands has condemned the abduction, torture and killing of 20-year-old schoolteacher Rebelyn Pitao, daughter of New People's Army (NPA) commander Leoncio Pitao (alias Parago Sandoval)....
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat A lawyers' group has demanded the automatic relief of the highest-ranking military and police officers in areas where extrajudicial killings take place. The National Union of People's Lawyers made this call on the heels of the...
BY BULATLAT Multisectoral group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today challenged Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to prove her sincerity in bringing justice to the murder of Rebelyn Pitao by making heads roll in the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
It has been 152 years since the historic March 8 march of women workers in New York to protest against inhumane working conditions and low wages. It has been 101 years since 15,000 women marched in the streets of New York for “Bread and Roses”: for economic...
Ka Parago's wife Evangeline Pitao, together with members of the organization of rights victims' families, was dismayed after knowing that one of the primary suspects in the abduction, rape and killing of Rebelyn Pitao was immediately released by the Davao City Police office after being apprehended for violation of the gun ban.
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