CHR: Duterte’s kill order emboldens impunity
Commission on Human Rights spokesperson Jacqueline De Guia said: “Words matter and such words can embolden some to act with abuse and impunity.”
Commission on Human Rights spokesperson Jacqueline De Guia said: “Words matter and such words can embolden some to act with abuse and impunity.”
PNP-CALABARZON director B.Gen. Felipe Natividad admitted that the killing and arrest of the activists are part of the government’s counter-insurgency campaign.
Six activists were reportedly killed while nine are arrested in a joint Synchronized Enhanced Management of Police Operations in Laguna, Rizal, Cavite and Batangas provinces Sunday morning, eve of International Women’s Day, March 7.
A second unionist was arrested on Thursday, March 4, with a warrant of the same charge and from the same judge, leading a human rights organization to ask if the country’s courts have become factories of “bogus search warrants.”
The wave of search warrants served in the dead of night that lead to charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives netted another activist, this time a government employee based in San Pablo City, Laguna.
“You want to make it appear as a robbery? The CCTV footage says otherwise. It was a kill operation. Right on the dot, after the stabbing, two motorcycles arrived to pick up the masked killers and they disappear[ed] in the dark,” the victim’s uncle said.
“Canada is implicated in the rights abuses through its security assistance to the Philippines and the role that Canadian mining companies play in the country,” MiningWatch Canada and ICHRP-Canada said.
NDFP consultant Rafael Baylosis in a statement Friday said those opposing attempts to resume the negotiations are afraid that the peace talks would eventually lead to a genuine just and lasting peace in the Philippines.
BAYAN secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. said it is strangely ironic that some groups would use the uprising’s anniversary to call for the perpetuation of one family in power that is both “a dictatorship and a dynasty.”
Reporting fellows of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) collected water samples from the waste pipes of plants along the Marilao River. Laboratory tests show they failed to meet DENR standards.






