The brutal and grisly murders of peace consultant Randall Echanis and Louie Tagapia, a neighbor who just happened to be around, are recent indications of the surely-to-be-denied shoot-to-kill and take-no-prisoner policy of the Duterte government. Operation Tokhang has certainly gone beyond supposed drug users. read more
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison said reasons are abundant for the peace negotiations if only Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) President Rodrigo Duterte listens to reason. In his quick reply to Duterte’s challenge to be given reasons to resume peace negotations, Sison said his…
By: John Eric Mendoza -INQUIRER.net / August 17, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — In the latest anti-Asian hate crime to plague the US following the COVID-19 pandemic, a Filipina nurse was racially harassed and attacked after distributing free masks on a subway in the city of New York. Potri Ranka Manis, a nurse working in New…
“Philippine National Police and NutriAsia used an inmate who has already been imprisoned since 2016, beat him to force him into a script of being among the striking workers, and used him as evidence to justify the brutality during the dispersal is an act of imbecility. This is reflective of how the PNP uses false…
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On Monday’s State of the Nation Address, President Rodrigo Duterte harped back on criticisms on his declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao, claiming no human rights violations happened in that period.