MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr.
(PDP-Laban) was elected May 2 at the 116th IPU
assembly in Bali, Indonesia as a member of the Inter
Parliamentary Union Human Rights Committee based in
Geneva.
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The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) was not the least surprised that the phone of former president Corazon Aquino was bugged.
?We are not surprised. Killings, abductions, surveillance; these are clear signs that we are now living in a police state. All our movements are being watched by a paranoid and unstable government. Just imagine how things will be when the anti-terror law is implemented in July,? said Bayan secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
DAVAO CITY — Compostela Valley Province still bears the name it earned a long time ago for what could only be blamed on the military — the Valley of Death, the human-rights group Karapatan said.
This, the group said, is a result of the continued rule of military brutality and fascism in the area under 1001st Brigade-Philippine Army (PA) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
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Moro groups are wary that electoral fraud will occur again in ARMM.
This after Armed Forces Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon declared that more checkpoints will be established on electoral hotspots to ensure peaceful and orderly elections.
Suara Bangsamoro Partylist chair Zaynab Ampatuan said “General Esperon is merely justifying stronger military presence in Mindanao this elections to repeat what happened in 2004.”
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MANILA — Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casi?o today renewed the militant partylist group?s call for the immediate surfacing of Jonas Joseph Burgos.
?The abduction of Jay-Jay ups the ante on enforced disappearances. Unlike previous cases under the current administration, he was taken in a mall in Quezon City in the middle of the day in front of many people. Only the Gloria?s security forces have the means and the motive to get Jay-jay,? Rep. Casi?o said.
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