Red-tagging halts kindness: Maginhawa community pantry suspends operations
As of seven o’clock Tuesday morning, intended beneficiaries who started lining up at three o’clock, were walking home to nearby Barangay Krus na Ligas with empty bags.
ACT, TDC express alarm as DepEd gathers numbers of members
ACT said DepEd has never defended teachers and school officials who fell victim to red-tagging and persecution by other government agencies. The DepEd is a member of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC)
Groups welcome Senate bill criminalizing red-tagging
“This is a very welcome development in the people’s fight against State-sponsored red-tagging and human rights violations. We are hoping for the approval of this measure. Farmers will lobby for the passage of this bill,” KMP chairperson Danilo Ramos said.
Communist leader and wife executed; corpses left in military safe house—CPP
Cabanatan, known as Manlimbasog (To Strive) by his comrades, was a member of the CPP Central Committee, served as secretary of its Mindanao Commission and member of its Political Bureau and Executive Committee until his reported retirement due to health problems in 2017.
VP Robredo blames Duterte’s ‘kill’ rant for massacre
“The Filipino people deserve better than this murderous regime,” Vice President Leni Robredo said.
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.”
Another activist arrested with same warrant, same allegation and same judge
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.”
DILG, NTF-ELCAC afraid of peace, NDFP consultant says
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.
Military ‘sorry’ for false list of dead or captured NPA
“It is appalling how the military office tasked with communicating with the citizenry has shamelessly resorted to such blatant falsehood to push the narrative of UP as the supposed ‘breeding ground’ of enemies of the state,” the NUJP said.
2020 saw most brazen abuses vs journalism—NUJP
The year 2020 had been particularly bad for journalism in the Philippines that saw more media workers killed, arrested, jailed and lose their jobs, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) reported.