KABIBA Alliance for Children?s Concerns in Mindanao Children?s Rehabilitation Center-Southern Mindanao Regional Office (CRC-SMRO) PRESS RELEASE 07 April 2007 Child-focused civil society groups urge CHR to probe, act on case…
PRESS STATEMENT
April 5, 2007
Palace, AFP finally admit roles in anti-Satur, anti-Bayan Muna drive
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita has finally admitted Malaca?ang’s
leading role in the fabricated charges leveled against Bayan Muna Rep.
Satur Ocampo and the campaign to crush Bayan Muna.
DAVAO CITY — Karapatan-Southern Mindanao Region lambasted today the 10th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for sowing lies about the killing of a nine-year-old girl, Grecil Buya, claiming that she was a New People?s Army fighter who died in a clash last March 31 in Baragay Kahayag, New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province.
Bayan Muna General Counsel Neri Colmenares today scored Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales for criticizing the Supreme Court ?for giving Rep. Satur Ocampo special treatment? in its decision to grant his release on bail.
?It is quite dishonest for Justice Sec. Gonzales to say that the High Court gave special treatment to Rep. Ocampo in its decision to temporarily release him on bail. Ocampo only exercised his constitutional right to go to the Supreme Court and seek justice,? Colmenares said.
Mindanews editor Carolyn Arguillas has a compelling story on Grecil Galacio, a nine-year-old Grade Two pupil from New Bataan, Compostela Valley. The military claimed that Grecil, who was described in…