Photo Gallery I Protestors turn Pahiyas fete into funeral march
Instead of reveling in Lucban to celebrate the famous Pahiyas festival in honor of San Isidro Labrador, the patron saint of farmers, townspeople of trooped to Quezon City to denounce the intensified counterinsurgency operations in South Quezon. Hundreds of protestors from various sectoral and rights organizations in Southern Tagalog marched to the Department of National Defense, where they placed a real-life coffin surrounded by placards bearing the names of human rights victims. The protestors, then, rallied to the Commission on Human Rights to file charges against the military and held a caravan on their way to the House of Representatives, where they were violently dispersed.
Real Reels | Raw Testimonies: Victims Expose Military Abuse in Quezon Province
On May 14, 2012, victims of human rights violations from Quezon province held a press conference to expose the abuse they suffered in the hands of the military.
Here is a video of their raw testimonies where they share stories of abduction, harassment, and threat among others.
Letter to the Editor: On AFP’s claim that they have a clean human rights slate
The Armed Forces of the Philippines Human Rights Office (AFPHRO), in a news article on the Philippine Daily Inquirer that came out last May 14, is boasting that the AFP has a clean human rights slate from January to April this year and all other human rights violations cases filed at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) from July 2010 are mere accusations.
The AFP should stop spreading its lies.
STeX Film: “Mistaken For”
For decades, government counterinsurgency programs in the Philippines, one after another, have caused grave human rights violations to innocent civilians especially in the countryside. The incumbent Aquino administration’s Internal Peace and Security Plan “Bayanihan” (Cooperation) or Oplan Bayanihan is no different. Oplan Bayanihan is but a replica of its predecessor, Oplan Bantay Laya, a counterinsurgency … Read more
STOP Oplan Bayanihan. STOP Human Rights Violations. Public service ad of KARAPATAN-ST
On January 2011, the Aquino government instituted “Oplan Bayanihan”, its own version of the AFP’s Internal Peace and Security Plan. Like its predecessor Oplan Bantay Laya, it boasts of securing peace and putting an end to insurgency while guaranteeing the protection of human rights and civil liberties. But reality tells a different story. In the … Read more
