By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The Lumad families left their community and set up a protest camp in Bukidnon after their village leader Jimmy Liguyon was killed by Alde “Butchoy” Salusad of the New Indigenous Peoples’ Army Reform (NIPAR) and his father, Nonong Salusad, a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographic Unit (CAFGU). But paramilitary forces continue to attack them with impunity.
Category: Human Rights
Transport leader killed in Pampanga
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Ponciano ” Poncing” Infante, president of the local transport group Pasada-Angeles City and the Pandan-Angeles Drivers Operators Association, was killed by two men riding a motorcycle last September 3. George San Mateo of Piston said Infante is the fourth transport leader killed this year.
Indigenous peoples leader charged with murder by military
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are at it again. According to the Katribu Indigenous Peoples’ Partylist, the AFP is directly behind a criminalization and vilification campaign against its national vice-president and second nominee Genasque Enriquez. The AFP, Katribu said, has filed charges of murder and…
Anti-mining tribe leader in Zamboanga ambushed, 11-year old son killed
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
At present, the ancestral domain of the Subanen’s in Bayog has eight mining permit applications, three approved Mineral Production Sharing Agreements (MPSA), one approved Exploration Permit and numerous illegal small-scale mining operations.
Fresh wounds: A story of 24 years of searching
Fresh wounds: A story of 24 years of searching
Kin of missing call on Aquino to stop enforced disappearances
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Nothing has changed. In two years of the Aquino administration, there are already 11 victims of enforced disappearances.”
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Farmers from Quezon province leave homes as soldiers terrorize villages
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We hope the soldiers would leave soon so we can go back to our place.”
Kin of missing activist slam military for providing misleading info
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – “James Balao is already dead.” This was the message received by Winston, James’s brother, on August 19, at around 8:20 a.m. from mobile number +639993031078. James has been missing since September 17, 2008 when alleged state security forces forcibly took him along a busy street in La Trinidad,…
Bayan Muna demands deferral of Defense modernization budget
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Lawamaker and lawyer Neri Javier Colmenares of Bayan Muna party is calling for the deferral of the Department of National Defense (DND) modernization budget. He said the DND’s budget should be deferred because of the agency’s and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin’s failure to satisfactorily explain the possible…
Girl killed by military stray bullet in Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Asmayra Usman and her parents were sleeping inside their tent in the Mahad Nurul Ittihad Evacuation Center in Salbo, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao when members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) encamped in Bagan village, Guindulungan allegedly fired their guns in the direction of the evacuation center.
1,000 days after, long battle for justice for victims of Ampatuan massacre looms
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“If the Massacre has made anything clear, it is the difficulty of obtaining justice through a judicial system hostage to technicalities and susceptible to the crafty manipulation of lawyers” – Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility