“In Davao City in Mindanao, several corpses were found bearing placards similarly suggesting they that were criminal offenders. What is shocking is the implied acceptance by the authorities and the public regarding this practice without seriously reflecting on the tremendous implications if it is allowed to continue,” says the Asian Human Rights Commission.
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“There is no dignity, in policy nor in practice, in the way our indigenous peoples are being treated. Indigenous communities are being displaced and threatened by mining concessions; they are being massacred supposedly in the name of development. There is an ethnocide going on in this country,” Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said.
In war vs youth offenders, Duterte reaches for the shotgun
Davao City Anakpawis is challenging here today Barangay Captain Colberto Tibay to demand for a speedy and genuine investigation…
COMPOSTELA VALLEY Karapatan belied here today the claim of military official recently that killed Anakpawis coordinator Alfonso Capiales in Nabunturan,…
The human-rights group Karapatan in Southern Mindanao condemned today the killing of another municipal and peasant leader of Anakpawis, who was shot dead in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley Province, on July 7.
Command responsibility: Can President Arroyo evade it?
What the European Union should do on killings
Winding up a 10-day “needs assessment mission” to look into the extra-judicial killings in the country, the European group headed by European Union Ambassador Alistair Macdonald offered today “technical assistance” to the government in the investigation of extrajudicial killings, the prosecution of the suspects and witness protection.
MANILA — week after GMA-7 news revealed the existence of what appeared to be Palace directives on extrajudicial killings of…
