“There should be due process.”
Tags: extrajudicial killings
Rights groups on Duterte’s war on drugs: Stop the killings
“It is through upholding the rights of the people, especially social and economic rights, that the people can repudiate the use and trade of illegal drugs.”
‘Drug-related summary executions same as political killings’
“The ongoing killings by law enforcers in the name of the war on drugs and without due process, is not any different from what the police and military under Jovito Palparan, Arroyo and Aquino did to activists and media workers who criticized government.”
‘Cardboard justice’ | Youth groups stand against killings
“We don’t want to have a country where we are forced to live with fear…There is no justifiable reason for any forms of killings—may it be drug-related or political. We urge the president, let us end this.”
Bloody start for 2016 | 4 activists killed in less than a month
Three of the four victims were from Mindanao and were killed in a span of one week.
Land reform beneficiary slain in Negros
Before the incident, the Sustento family and other tillers experienced harassment while defending their collective land cultivation area.
Bloodstained ‘daang matuwid’ claims lives of hundreds, including children
“The regime’s monstrosity, which spares not even children, speaks of the evil tactics of the counterinsurgency program of Aquino, Oplan Bayanihan.”
Special Coverage: No good governance without human rights
Human rights is nowhere to be found from among the Aquino administration’s priorities. And this has perpetuated, nay worsened, impunity as the Aquino administration has itself committed human rights violations in the course of its own counter-insurgency program Oplan Bayanihan and in pushing the neoliberal agenda in the service of corporate interests.
Under Aquino, no conviction on extrajudicial killings
“All attempts at seeking justice are frustrated in every way. Aquino has deepened the roots of impunity.”
Instead of receiving gov’t assistance, Yolanda survivors being harassed, killed by soldiers
“Instead of adequately addressing the sustainable livelihood needs of the farmers, the government trample upon the economic and human rights of the farmers. Following reports of indiscriminate firing from the military, farmers are forced to flee from their homes and sources of livelihood.”
Remembering Fr. Pops
“Four years later, all the supposed task forces and committees formed by the Aquino regime to look into the case were proven inutile.”