MANILA — Official canvassing results placed Gabriela in the number one position among the party lists in the Hong Kong overseas absentee voting, getting 7,557 votes or 52.9% of the total party list votes. Hong Kong has the largest number of overseas absentee voters.
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BY RYAN B. LACHICA
Bulatlat
Vol. VII, No. 13 May 6- 12, 2007
BACOLOD CITY – The rampant political killings, disappearances and harassment of leaders and organuzers of progressive groups, which are allegedly being committed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) bring back memories of the Martial Law era ? the period when tyranny reigned in the country.
This region, Western Visayas, has not been spared. In Panay and Negros islands, several cases of enforced disappearances and tales of harassment had been documented by people?s organizations. These, however, remain unsolved.
Recent attacks
In Iloilo, the whereabouts of Leonilo Arado, regional chairperson of Bayan-Panay and Coordinator of militant party-list Anakpawis (Toiling Masses), and Ma. Luisa Posa-Dominado, officer of the Samahan nga mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Para sa Amnestiya (SELDA-Panay), who were abducted after their vehicle was ambushed by unidentified armed men the night of April 12 remain unknown.
Contributed by Brian McAfee
Posted by Bulatlat
Vol. VII, No. 13 May 6- 12, 2007
In the Philippines Bush’s War On Terror has become a War Of Terror. Last week Elias Mabundas, 25, and Auling Bugahod, 50, both left wing activists were gunned down by the Philippine military as they were driving down a freeway. On Wednesday, April 18, Carmelo Palacios, 41, became the 51st journalist to be killed since Gloria Macapagal Arroyo came to power in 2001. Two days prior to the Palacios killing, Willie Jerus, 43, a member of the National Peasant Movement (KMP) and a local organizer, was gunned down in front of his wife by an unidentified gunman. He was the 843rd leftist to be killed, usually by the same proverbial unidentified gunman/gunmen since Arroyo came to power. In addition to those known killed an additional 210 are reported as missing.
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A Cordillera human rights group criticized the Witness Protection Program of the government as it expressed outrage over the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration for the dismissal of the murder charges filed against an army captain identified as the killer of Jose ?Pepe? Manegdeg.
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Ni Noel S?les Barcelona
Pinoyweekly.org
DAHIL SA INGAY ng pulitika sa bansa, tila hanging dumaan sa pandama ng sambayanan ang pagbudyong ng NCCA (National Commission for Culture and the Arts), CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines) at mga katuwang na mga institusyon at organisasyon, hinggil sa sambuong buwang pagdiriwang ng Kapistahan ng Pamanang Pilipino (Filipino Heritage Festival) ngayong Mayo.
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