DAVAO CITY — The partylist group Suara Bangsamoro denounced last week President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for pushing the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Bill by using the recent Jolo bombing as justification. “The Anti-Terrorism Bill will never address the problem of terrorism; instead it will only curtail the rights of Filipino people from exercising their rights to free expression and freedom to assemble,” the party said. �The repressive characters under the provisions of the proposed bill would only lead to an extensive violation of Human rights that is in one way or another a form of State terrorism� it said.
Read Suara’s full statement in Davao Today’s Inbox.
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