“We are told, ‘Stay home and stay safe. Wash your hands regularly,’ but the displaced Meranaws live in cramped makeshift spaces without sufficient water supply. Those whose homes are at ground zero still could not return.”
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Marawi bakwit to Duterte: ‘Maybe you don’t remember we Muslim voted for you’
‘I want to call on Pres. Duterte, please stop the bombing of Marawi and please lift Martial Law.’
Dispatches: Whitewashing internal displacement in Ph
As of May, there were more than 260,000 IDPs in the Philippines, the result of conflict and natural disasters. Too often the government talks the talk while neglecting them – or worse.
Arroyo Placed Philippines in Company of War-Torn, Aid-Dependent Countries
By REP. NERI JAVIER COLMENARES Bayan Muna Posted by (Bulatlat.com) We congratulate President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for placing the Philippines in the blighted company of war-torn, aid-dependent countries like Sudan and Somalia. The Philippine Daily Inquirer recently reported that the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will soon start providing rice rations amounting to 8,160 metric…
News in Pictures: As Arroyo Regime Splurges on Good Food, Victims of Militarization in Surigao Starve
MANILA — While President Arroyo dined for $20,000 in New York, Manobo children only have lugaw, bread and food rations at the evacuation center at the Diocese Pastoral Center in Tandag, Surigao del Sur. (Photo courtesy of Mapasu and Kalumaran / bulatlat.com) Some 1,700 Manobo lumads from Diatagon, Surigao del Sur were displaced last July…
Slideshow: A Deepening Humanitarian Crisis in Maguindanao
A Humanitarian Crisis Deepens in Maguindanao
Peace Group Says P500-M Hunt for Bravo, Kato Prolonging Agony of Evacuees
The peace coalition Kalinaw Mindanao criticized the Arroyo government for spending P500 million ($10,216,591) in its military operations against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), describing it as “irrational, wasteful of public funds, and prolonging the agony of half a million war refugees.” BY BULATLAT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH The peace coalition Kalinaw Mindanao criticized the…