Human Rights

KMP Affirms Mass Evacuation in Philippines Village

News Release
April 16, 2007
References: Danilo ?Ka Daning? Ramos, secretary general, KMP
Diane Ragub, campaign officer SAGUPA-SB
Carl Anthony Ala, public information officer

?Mass evacuation in Samar village true!?-KMP
Military and police further harassing peasants

The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and its regional chapter SAGUPA-SB lambasted the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) particularly the 34th Infantry Battalion and Mayor Mateo Biong of Giporos town in Eastern Samar for lying to the media that there was no mass evacuation of at least 80 families from Barangay Huknan.
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Philippines: Bird Flu Is a Children?s Concern, Says Unicef

DAVAO CITY — Bird Flu is a children?s concern, which has prompted the United Nations Children?s Fund to join the information drive to keep the Philippines free from the pandemic and save the Filipino children.

Nilo Yacat, an information officer from UNICEF Philippines in a seminar workshop with Philippine Information Agency (PIA) information officers, bared the extent of harm that the Avian Influenza (AI) had done to children population.

He said one-half of the reported cases and one-third of the reported deaths worldwide due to AI, were children.

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Philippines: ‘We are in Great Pain’ — Missing Activist’s Family

STATEMENT OF TOMAS LEGISLADOR DOMINADO, JR. ON THE ABDUCTION AND DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS WIFE, MARIA LUISA ARCHES POSA AND NILO ARADO

Just recently, on March 28, I gave 30 stems of red roses to my wife symbolizing our 30 years of marriage amidst arduous struggle for democracy. Through thick and thin, we have marched together, with our people, for 37 years in their fight for liberation.

Would this be about to come to an end? For last night (April 12), agents of the state under the Arroyo regime forcibly abducted my wife and Nilo Arado of BAYAN. They shot Leeboy Garachico of KARAPATAN, in the neck and left him for dead.

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Philippines: Interfaith Mission Slams AFP Over Grecil’s Death

National Interfaith Psychosocial First-Aid Mission
Brgy. Kahayag, New Battan, Compostela Valley Province
April 14, 2007

MISSION STATEMENT

April 16, 2007

Knowing that,

The 1001st Infantry Brigade under 10th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has hastily charged the victim of its cold blooded killing, Grecil S. Buya, as a child soldier of the New People?s Army last March 31, 2007;

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Philippines: ‘Child Soldiers’ Label Used by Military to Escape Accountability

Salinlahi Foundation, Inc.
Alliance for Children?s Concern
PO Box 1580-1155
QCCPO 1100 Q.C.
Philippines

PRESS STATEMENT

April 16, 2007

Reference: Renato Macaspac, Advocacy Officer, 0928 247-3737

SALINLAHI Foundation for Children?s Concern

?Child Soldiers? Label used by the Military to Escape Accountability over Cases of Children Victims of Human Rights Violations?

Obedient, playful and fun-loving. These are characteristics typical of rural children like Grecil Buya Galacio, 9 years old. She had cherished the start of the summer vacation because this meant days of helping her mother in her house chores, playing with her younger siblings, and swimming in the nearby creek. But on that fateful day of March 31, 2007, Grecil?s childhood had ended. Members of the 28th and 67th Infantry Brigade based in Compostella Valley had shot Grecil during an encounter with members of the New People?s Army in Purok 6, Barangay Kahayag, New Bataan. With no remorse, the military immediately branded Grecil as a ?child soldier? of the NPA as if labeling their victim as such could exenorate them from the accountability of such a gruesome act.

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