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.
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…
MANILA — The filing of charges against Bayan Muna’s Congressman Saturnino “Satur”
Ocampo, his arrest, the attempt to fly him to Leyte, and his detention at
the Manila Police District headquarters triggered a surge in media
coverage of the party-list elections during the period March 3?16, 2007.
MANILA — The Families of Desaparecidos for Justice
(DESAPARECIDOS) condemned the abduction of a woman
urban poor leader in Dasmari?as, Cavite this afternoon
as another handiwork of state security forces.