Military

Ka Parago to AFP: Don’t Vent Ire on Civilians to Save Your Dishonor

1st Pulang Bagani Company
Merardo Arce Command
Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command
New People’s Army

Press Statement
15 April 2007

NPA to AFP Eastern Command: Don’t vent ire on civilians to save your dishonor

The 1st Pulang Bagani Company calls on the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to stop venting its ire on the people of Barangay Manay and Barangay Casilac, Panabo, Davao del Norte in order to deflect attention from the dishonor it has suffered in the NPA raid on the Davao Penal Colony.

(more…)

Continue ReadingKa Parago to AFP: Don’t Vent Ire on Civilians to Save Your Dishonor

Philippines: Gabriela Solon to IPU: ?We are being harassed?

NEWS RELEASE
18 April 2007

Reference: Rep. Liza Largoza-Maza, Gabriela Women?s Partylist (09209134540)
Cristina Palabay, GWP Secretary General (09175003879)
Gabriela Women?s Partylist Headquarters (9284007)

Gabriela solon to IPU: ?We are being harassed?

“The Arroyo administration is out to persecute and kill us and members of our political parties. It is out to disenfranchise our constituents by harassing and demonizing political parties that are gaining the support of the people as part of the political opposition.” This was the statement of Rep. Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party during a meeting with members of the Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) this afternoon at the Westin Philippine Plaza in Manila.

(more…)

Continue ReadingPhilippines: Gabriela Solon to IPU: ?We are being harassed?

Philippines Welcomes OIC Appeal for Ceasefire in South

MANILA — Malacanang welcomed today the appeal of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) for a halt to renewed fighting between government forces and the secessionist Moro National Liberation Front, saying it has consistently worked with international allies and stakeholders for peace in the south.

Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio R. Bunye stressed however that the government couldn?t have a peace hostaged to the victims of lawless.

(more…)

Continue ReadingPhilippines Welcomes OIC Appeal for Ceasefire in South

Philippines: Mother, Child Victim of Another Military Atrocity

KARAPATAN ? CARAGA
Alliance for the Advancement of People?s Rights
4th St. Guingona Subd., Brgy. J.P. Rizal, Butuan City
Telefax: (085) 3421459; email ad: karapatan_caraga@yahoo.com
Reference: Analyn Lumawag; Deputy Sec. Gen.
(0918) 7984512
Press Release
18 April 2007

INAHAN ug ANAK BIKTIMA SA MILITARISASYON
Militarisasyon! Usa na usab ka kaso sa pagpatay. Niadtong Abril 2, 2007, sa may alas 10:00 kapin kun kulang sa kabuntagon, didto sa bukid sa Brgy. Caromata, San Miguel, Surigao del Sur, usa ka gi-alegahang kampo sa mga NPA ang gikatahong gi-raid sa mga kasundaluhan nga sakop sa 58th Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army, mga sakop sa Special Civilian Active Auxilliary (SCAA) ug CAFGU ubos sa 4th Infantry Division. Kalit nga gipabuthan sa mga kasundaluhan ang walo ka mga babaye nga dunay kuyog nga tulo (3) ka bata nga ilang mga anak. Ug diha-diha dayon naigo-patay ang usa ka batang lalaki nga si DANDAN A. QUILLANO, 12 anyos ang pangidaron, lumulupyo sa Sitio Banahaw, Maitum, Tandag, Surigao del Sur. Tungod sa kalisang sa mga biktima nanagan kini aron luwason ang kaugalingon apan nasakpan ang usa ka babaye nga si BETTY A. QUILLANO, 37 anyos ang pangidaron, inahan sa batang lalaki. Gidala kini sa mga sundalo balik sa nahimutangan sa patay?ng lawas sa iyang anak.
(more…)

Continue ReadingPhilippines: Mother, Child Victim of Another Military Atrocity

Philippines to OIC: Attacks Against MNLF Members Are Not Attacks Against MNLF

PRESS RELEASE
Department of Foreign Affairs
2330 Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, Philippines ? Tel. No. 834-4000 ? www.dfa.gov.ph

Response of the hon. Alberto G. Romulo Secretary of Foreign Affairs To the Statement of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on the situation in the southern Philippines

17 April 2007

The Philippine Government appreciates the commitment of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to the peace process in the Southern Philippines and to the 1996 Peace Agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).

(more…)

Continue ReadingPhilippines to OIC: Attacks Against MNLF Members Are Not Attacks Against MNLF