By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Eight months have passed since Arnel Leonor, 19, of Silverio Compound in Parañaque City, was killed during the demolition of their homes. As of this writing, no justice has been served and his mother Glenda feels it is taking too long. Eight months, too, have passed since…
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Slow, elusive justice for Arnel, Silverio Compound residents
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“At times, I just want to leave this case in God’s hands. But every time I think of how these people are helping me, especially the party-list groups, I know I have to fight. I am his mother.” – Glenda Leonor, mother of Arnel who was killed during a violent demolition.
Sidebar: Urban, rural poor gather to demand for social justice
Urban, rural poor gather to demand for social justice
By PATRICIA LOURDES VIRAY Bulatlat.com Main Story: Slow, elusive justice for Arnel, Silverio Compound residents A month has passed since the brutal demolition at the Silverio Compound in Parañaque City that resulted in the death of Arnel Leonor but justice is still not served. After a program at the barangay gymnasium, the Silverio residents lit…
Silverio compound residents, supporters give Arnel Leonor hero’s burial
Silverio compound residents, supporters give Arnel Leonor a hero’s burial (Photo by Janess Ann J. Ellao / Bulatlat.com)
Moratorium on demolition, initial victory for urban poor
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Urban poor groups said the moratorium on demolition that Interior Sec. Jesse Robredo has issued is an initial and brief victory for communities in Metro Manila. But the fight is far from over. “The urban poor communities in Metro Manila have more time now to further strengthen…
Police fired live bullets during clash in Parañaque City’s Silverio compound
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“The national government appears to have completely neglected us and the rest of the urban poor,” one of the wounded residents said.
Groups call Ombudsman to conduct investigation on violent demolitions
Groups call Ombudsman to conduct investigation on violent demolitions (Photo by Igal Jada San Andres / Bulatlat.com)
Children of Silverio compound, traumatized but determined to defend their homes
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Children are not deaf and blind to ignore what was happening.
One dead, 33 arrested in violent demolition in Parañaque City’s Silverio compound
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“It was a human barricade. We did not gear for a gunfight.” — Sheila Bernal, a resident and president of Samahan ng Pagkakaisa at Rekonsilasyon sa Silverio.
‘We condemn the Aquino government’s use of violence against the residents of Silverio Compound’ – KMU
Press Statement 23 April 2012 We condemn the Aquino government, the local government of Parañaque City, big capitalist Henry Sy, and the Philippine National Police for using violence in trying to demolish the homes of urban poor residents of Silverio Compound, Parañaque today. The excessive violence inflicted on the urban poor of Silverio Compound resulted…
Kadamay calls on urban poor nationwide to protest vs brutal demolition in Silverio Compound
PRESS STATEMENT April 23, 2012 We express our strongest condemnation of the brutal demolition of homes in Silverio Coumpound, the massacre of our brothers in the hands the Aquino administration. Aquino has only brought death and suffering to the toiling masses then in Hacienda Luista, and now in every urban poor community that he tried…