The Department of Justice has announced that an interagency body will investigate the extrajudicial killings, carried out one week apart this month, of peasant leader and peace consultant Randall Echanis, 71, and human rights cum health worker Zara Alvarez, 39, single mother of an 11-year-old girl. Echanis was murdered along with his neighbor inside his…
Based on the residents’ accounts, the Remasog brothers were charging their mobile phones at the house of farmer Delia Tenianu, when the soldiers arrived. The two girls, meanwhile, were trying to find a signal near the area. By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Rights groups are calling for the immediate release of three…
https://inductivebiblestudyapp.com/2020/01/who-do-you-believe-jesus-is/ Ni FLOYD CASTRO United Methodist Church Psalm 138:1-3, 6, 8 Isaiah 22:15,19-23 Romans 11:33-36 Matthew 16:13-20 Sa loob ng “inner circle” ng mga alagad na madalas tinatawag na “labingdalawa”, kailangang malaman ni Hesus kung paano siya kinikilala. Pagkatapos marinig at masaksihan ng maraming tao ang kanyang mga turo at gawa, hindi malayo na may…
Different groups calling for justice for killed activists in the country. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan/BULATLAT) “We are saddened and appalled by the ongoing violence and threats against human rights defenders in the Philippines, including the killing of two human rights defenders over the past two weeks.” — UN spokesperson By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com…
Randall Echanis and the injuries he sustained, according to forensic pathology expert Raquel Fortun Forensic pathology expert Raquel Fortun, who examined Randall Echanis’s remains, said, “He was made to suffer before he was killed.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Peace consultant and Anakpawis Partylist Chairperson Randall Echanis was tortured before he was…
On a rainy night, 39-year-old health worker and human rights defender Zara Alvarez in Bacolod City was shot and killed. A few days before her fatal shooting, 71-year-old Randall Echanis was stabbed to death by men who, according to witnesses, had been surveilling him for a month. State security forces are said to be responsible…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Zara Alvarez had always known that she might face a bitter end with the path she chose – a life of service to the oppressed. But her optimism and determination never faltered despite being one of the most attacked and vilified human rights defenders in the country….
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sputnik_V_Vaccine_Representation.jpg By ROMEO F. QUIJANO, M.D. Professor (Ret.) Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila The COVID-19 (SARS-Cov-2) vaccine is fraught with hazards. This should be the obvious, rational conclusion of anyone who cares to objectively study the available scientific and other relevant information about it. There are many…