The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines is alarmed over reports that no less than the chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has prevented a reporter from covering legitimate news events in Mindanao, particularly in the province of Basilan.
“In Davao City in Mindanao, several corpses were found bearing placards similarly suggesting they that were criminal offenders. What is shocking is the implied acceptance by the authorities and the public regarding this practice without seriously reflecting on the tremendous implications if it is allowed to continue,” says the Asian Human Rights Commission.
Childrens vulnerabilities have further been aggravated by reports from the DSWD in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao that on August 19, eight kids aged 4 to 16 years old from Indanan, Sulu, were arrested and tortured along with their parents by the militarys Joint Special Operations Force.
On this day of the desaparecidos, Anakpawis SOCSKSARGEN calls for the immediate surfacing of abducted labor leader Jaime Jimmy Rosios.
Rosios, a Board Member of Yellow Bus Lines Employees Union, and a vocal critic of the YBL managements unfair labor practices, was abducted by armed men aboard a Tamaraw FX, just outside the Yellow Bus garage in Koronadal City, South Cotabato last August 11, 2007.
DAVAO CITY — Bayan Muna negated here today the recent pronouncement of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of posting the alleged…
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MANILA — Contrary to Vice-President Noli de Castros assertion that the growing number of Filipinos employed abroad was proof of…
GOV. GENEROSO, Davao OrientalSeventeen farmers have blamed Undersecretary for Field Operations Narciso Nieto for failure of the Department of Agrarian…
By ANGELA LIBRADO-TRINIDAD
We have hoodlums in robes, we have cheats at the highest echelons of the government, we have crooks in Congress, landgrabbers and killers well-entrenched in state machineries and business, and the irony is, despite the laws available to victims, to the poorest among us, these criminals appear decent and held with high regard in our society. We see the young shoplifter, the young molester or the young drug pusher and, alas, we are immediately agitated to have them removed from our sight and from the streets!
Stop military operations in Sulu and Basilan! Stop targeting civilians! Government troops hit civilians while conducting clearing operations in Tipo-Tipo,…
