Violent dispersal unprovoked, unlawful – ex-lawmakers
Former partylist lawmakers said that Wednesday's violent dispersal of a protest action at the US Embassy, despite lacking permits, should not have been violently dispersed.
Former partylist lawmakers said that Wednesday's violent dispersal of a protest action at the US Embassy, despite lacking permits, should not have been violently dispersed.
Leaders of indigenous peoples and Moro alliance, SANDUGO, burn a mock flag of the United States in a protest rally held in Mendiola, Manila to condemn the violent dispersal of rallyists at the US Embassy on Oct. 19. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
A protester smears a police car with the words "JUNK EDCA VFA", which stand for the two agreements signed between US and the Philippines, Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement and Visiting Forces Agreement, during a protest that met a violent dispersal on Wednesday, Oct. 19. The same police vehicle, driven by PO3 Franklin Kho, would run over the protesters an hour later. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
A former partylist lawmaker accused the Armed Forces of the Philippines of using the interim ceasefires by both the ?government and the New People's Army to advance ?its objective of eradicating the New People's Army under the previous administration's counter insurgency program Oplan Bayanihan.
Indigenous and Moro leaders recounted their experiences during the violent dispersal at the US Embassy? on Wednesday.