Who committed the beheading and why did the perpetrators commit such act is a very controversial and sensitive issue that should have been responded to with discretion rather than warmongering. For weeks, it is as if every Muslim has to answer for it.
Human Rights Watch: Since January 2000, radical armed Islamist groups in the Philippines have carried out over 40 major bombings against civilians and civilian property, mostly in the south of the country. They have killed civilians indiscriminately — Christians and Muslims, men and women, parents and children — and left behind orphans, widows, and widowers. Hundreds of other victims have suffered severe wounds, burns, and lost limbs. In all, the bombings and other attacks have caused over 1,700 casualties in the last seven years, more than the number of people killed and injured in bombing attacks during the same period in neighboring Indonesia (including the 2002 Bali bombings), and considerably more than the number of those killed and injured in bombings in Morocco, Spain, Turkey, or Britain.
Below are Davao Today’s pictures taken during the protest rally against the State of the Nation Address by President Gloria…
Activists led by Bayan and its allied groups have been mounting protest actions against the Human Security Act, the Philippines’s anti-terrorism law that is set to take effect tomorrow, July 15. Critics said the law is the most repressive piece of legislation ever crafted by the Philippine congress. (Photo by Arkibong Bayan, www.arkibongbayan.org)
davao city — A Quick Reaction Team has been activated as one of the major components of the human rights…
In war vs youth offenders, Duterte reaches for the shotgun
Davao City Anakpawis is challenging here today Barangay Captain Colberto Tibay to demand for a speedy and genuine investigation…
COMPOSTELA VALLEY Karapatan belied here today the claim of military official recently that killed Anakpawis coordinator Alfonso Capiales in Nabunturan,…
Press Release 12 July 2007 LAING DUHA KA MGA BATAN-ONG LIDER GIDAGIT! Niadtong Hulyo 5, 2007 sa may alas 11:00…
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan together with progressive peoples’ organizations, civil libertarians and human rights group disputes the definition of terrorism in the HSA, saying it is prone to abuse by the authorities since it is too vague and broad. Who defines such terms as “widespread”, “extraordinary”, “panic”, “populace”, “unlawful” and so on? Even legitimate dissent can be interpreted as terrorism since under the HSA the definition is not limited to the Abu Sayyaf Group, Jemaah Islamiyah and Al Qaeda.
