Like journalist RJ Nichole Ledesma, University of the Philippines student councilor Alyssa Alano and peasant organizers and advocates Maureen Santuyo and Errol Wendel, Prijoles was slain by “indiscriminate firing and strafing” by government soldiers, BAYAN-USA said.
Hundreds of residents participated in Roger Fabillar’s funeral on Thursday, braving probable military surveillance and possible retaliation as the late New People’s Army leader was laid to rest in Toboso, Negros Occidental.
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Tanggol Magsasaka (Defend Farmers) said peasant organizer Maureen Keil Santuyo and community researcher Errol Wendel were among the 19 victims in what the Armed Forces of the Philippines reported as a 12-hour gunfight with the New People’s Army.
In a 50-page decision signed today, April 23, the ICC said Duterte committed with his co-perpetrators a common plan or agreement to “neutralize” alleged criminals through violent means including murder. His co-perpetrators include incumbent senators Ronald de la Rosa and Christopher Lawrence Go.
The NPA said 79th IBPA’s narrative is a “desperate piece of fiction…quick to parade a tally of 19 casualties, claiming each was an armed combatant.”
The ICC said the Philippines’ withdrawal cannot be used as a means to evade investigation and prosecution as it would undermine the Statute’s purpose, which is to curb impunity.
The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) reported Vice President Sara Duterte and husband Manases Carpio were involved in “suspicious transactions” worth P4.4 billion in inflows and P1.5 billion in outflows in a matter of two decades incongruent with their declared net worth.
“Even as we hold him one of those principally liable for the flood control scam, we demand that all those implicated in the massive and systemic corruption to be immediately prosecuted and arrested,” BAYAN said.
Tinio said the reason textbook procurement collapsed for years is that DepEd “largely turned away from using textbooks” after K-12 curriculum, shifting to modules and other learning materials—often delivered inconsistently and sometimes reduced to teacher-made PowerPoint presentations.
The CA also ruled that the testimony of Bustillo as a supposed insider witness should be “received with extreme caution”, and that “(u)less it is supported by independent and unbiased evidence, her narration of the events deserves scant consideration.”
