“While the police continue their killing spree through the drug war and initiate mass arrests of tambays in urban communities, soldiers stepped up their attacks against peasant and indigenous people populations in Mindanao where martial law is imposed. The Duterte regime is unleashing its all-out assault on the Filipino people’s democratic rights,” said Karapatan Secretary…
By JONAS ALPASAN Bulatlat.com MANILA – Progressives assailed the impending release of US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton who was convicted by a Philippine court over the killing of a Filipino transwoman, saying that no ordinary mortal truly knows if he really served jail time for almost six years let alone deserve an early release due…
“Before the ‘Red October’ scheme was concocted by the military, the military and the police already had much time to practice their script–writing and story-telling stint through the filing of trumped-up charges against activists and critics. The formation of the Inter-Agency Committee on Legal Action (IACLA) is an extension of these imagined and supposed “crimes,”…
Precisely as how we saw it coming, the US-Saudi conflict with Yemen has now escalated into a full-blown ground battle advancing ever deeper into Saudi’s inland territory.
By: Tina Arceo-Dumlao – Business Features Editors/ Philippine Daily Inquirer / March 28, 2021 Today, Palm Sunday, the people of Guiuan in the southern tip of Eastern Samar are expected to make their way to their beloved Immaculate Conception Parish Church with an extra spring in their step. Renewed lockdown restrictions due to surging cases…
As Australian missionary Sr. Patricia Fox is compelled to leave today under protest, Karapatan denounces the nearly seven-month ordeal of Fox as one that illustrates the Duterte regime’s contempt for those who promote genuine peace and social justice in the Philippines. read more