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TABLE 1: Violations of Civil & Political Rights Under the Noynoy Aquino April - July 2014 Released by KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights) TABLE 1: Violations of Civil & Political Rights under the Noynoy Aquino Government (July 2010 to June 2014) atapulted into power on the merit of his parents’ Violation No. of victims legacy, Benigno S. Aquino easily and quickly used up Extrajudicial Killing 204 Call of his parents’ magic. Enforced Disappearance 21 Torture 99 In his fourth year Aquino faced the Filipino people in power, BS Aquino in his State of the Nation Address Rape 3 can no longer hide in with three impeachment complaints Frustrated Extrajudicial Killing 207 his parents’ cloak. The hanging over his head—a portent Illegal Arrest without Detention 272 rotten presidential and of more things to come for the Illegal Arrest and Detention 664 congressional pork in Cojuangco-Aquino scion. Illegal Search and Seizure 270 his cauldron stinks The impeachment cases against up the whole country, BS Aquino—two complaints for his Physical Assault and Injury 395 making the Filipino insistence on his presidential pork, the Demolition 17,145 people sick. His decrepit Disbursement Acceleration Program Violation of Domicile 504 deodorizing potions or (DAP), and one complaint for signing Destruction of Property 12,694 witching incantations the Enhanced Defense Cooperation of “inclusive economic Agreement (EDCA) with the Obama Divestment of Property 355 growth”, “infrastructure Administration—all sum up to BS Forced Evacuation 39,800 development”, “pro- Aquino’s betrayal of public trust and Threat/Harassment/Intimidation 65,712 human rights”, culpable violation of the Constitution. Indiscriminate Firing 9,932 “disaster preparedness”, Caught with a steady decline of and benefits of the his performance rating and of people’s Forced/Fake Surrender 57 Disbursement Acceleration outrage, BS Aquino resorted to Forced Labor/Involuntary 172 Program (DAP) cannot emotional blackmail by again tearfully Servitude blind the nation’s eyes. imploring the name of his parents, Use of Civilians in Police and/or More and more people, cooking up threats against his life, and Military Operations as Guides 549 including those who peddling coup rumors with the hope of and/or Shield campaigned for Aquino’s recovering trust in him. presidential bid, are crying To many Filipinos, Aquino’s Use of Schools, Medical, out “walang pagbabago sa consistent PR stunts about economic Religious and Other Public 141,490 ilalim ni Aquino!” (There growth and development were plucked Places for Military Purpose has been no substantial out from some unknown planet Restriction or Violent Dispersal change under the Aquino in the universe, of Mass Actions, Public 9,929 government). Assemblies and Gatherings 2 KARAPATAN Monitor Also, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) admitted having received Php 248 billion of DAP funds in 2012 spent for “development projects” of known paramilitary groups. By its own account, OPAPP funded groups such as the Revolutionary Proletarian Army- Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB) and the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) because these groups are purportedly engaged in peace negotiations with the government. The CPLA got Php264 million supposedly for projects coursed through PAMANA Impeachment complaint vs. Aquino says he has while the RPA-ABB received Php violated the Constitution for signing the EDCA with the US government. 31 million. Both RPA-ABB and the CPLA are sowing terror in the Negros provinces and the Cordilleras. The CPLA members are now without any reference to the real issues Bayanihan. The US military guides integrated into the 86th Infantry and concerns of the Filipino people— the AFP’s implementation of Oplan Battalion of the 5th Infantry Division, hunger, joblessness and landlessness, Bayanihan and provides continuous a notorious unit in Northern Luzon to name the most basic. It shows how and increasing foreign military aid. known for a string of human disconnected BS Aquino government Expectedly, the EDCA puts US interest rights violations. The Cordillera is with the real world, especially the over the civil and political rights of the Human Rights Alliance-Karapatan world of the poor majority of the Filipino people. With the signing of documented several involvement of Filipino people. For the BS Aquino EDCA, the human rights situation is said unit in state terrorism. Among belongs to the world of the landed elite, bound to get worse. these cases are the killing of William big business, the bureaucrats and the As in the days when the US held Bugatti in Ifugao on March 25, 2014 imperialists. permanent bases in the country, US and the harassment, intimidation and facilities in the Philippines through red tagging of Jude Baggo, secretary The EDCA: Aquino’s treachery EDCA may now accommodate and be general of the Cordillera Human against the Filipino people used to transport or preposition US Rights Alliance (CHRA). Baggo and Three months after the GPH and personnel and war materiel. As the US 28 other human rights defenders the US government signed the EDCA, engages in wars of aggression in the and development workers are among on July 24, members of progressive different parts of the globe, EDCA puts those listed in the 86th IB’s document people’s organizations including the Philippines in the forefront of US “Municipality of Tinoc Target Persons” Karapatan, filed an impeachment interventionist wars and becomes a for supposedly supporting the New complaint against BS Aquino “for more convenient tool in the oppression People’s Army (NPA). Baggo and giving away the Philippines to the and repression of the struggling Bugatti, the Ifugao provincial human dogs.” The BS Aquino government peoples of the world. rights focal person of the CHRA, were paved the way for US reoccupation both marked as “Utak ng NPA” (Brains of the Philippines through EDCA, Aquino’s pork fattens the of the NPA). killing machine a total sell-out of the country’s The newly appointed Chief of Staff sovereignty. That makes BS Aquino Aside from the yearly huge budget, Lt. Gen. Gregorio Catapang of the guilty of treason. the AFP reportedly received additional Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Karapatan signed the P665.6M from DAP. Going by the was commander of the Northern impeachment complaint in memory human rights record of the AFP, the Luzon Command. As such, he is of the thousands of victims of human huge amount of money, packaged as accountable among others for the rights violations under the US- AFP modernization, actually goes to massacre of the Ligiw family in Abra Aquino regime, as it holds the US intelligence and combat operations on March 2, 2014 and the extrajudicial government also accountable for all used especially against those perceived killing of Bugatti. the human rights violations in the by the government as ‘enemies of the Catapang’s appointment reflects country. The US-engineered Aquino’s state’. The AFP’s 2014 budget is at least the intertwining corruption and counterinsurgency program, Oplan Php 82.1 billion. terror propagated by the US-Aquino 3 3 April-July 2014 3 The plight of Maria Miradel Torres and An- drea Rosal (right) expose the government’s inhuman treatment vs. political prisoners. regime. It is a case of a people held up There are now 504 political discharged Torres noticed several men by its own government and gunned detainees, most of them arrested tailing her. down by its supposed protector, the through trumped up criminal charges. Torres, a member of a local AFP. It is using the people’s money The cases of Andrea Rosal and chapter of Gabriela, was arrested against the people. Maria Miradel Torres embody the without a warrant. The police took her Also, the bureaucrats in the inhuman jail condition and inequality to Camp Gen. Guillermo Nakar Station executive and legislative branches before the law. Hospital at the Solcom headquarters who benefitted from the DAP now Andrea Rosal was arrested in Lucena City. She is charged with act as BS Aquino’s PR machinery in March 2014 when she was seven murder at the Infanta Regional Trial defending DAP’s existence, months pregnant. She was dumped Court, Quezon province. The said maneuvering to make it legal despite into a cramped jail based on trumped court issued an alias warrant on the the high court’s pronouncement that up criminal charges and false same day Torres was arrested. it is unconstitutional. testimony of a hired witness used The police did not inform the by state security forces to justify relatives of Torres of her arrest. Her Jail the plunderers, free all false arrests. Rosal went through the mother learned of her arrest two days political prisoners maze of bureaucratic red-tape before later, but was denied by jail authorities The DAP controversy brought she was hospitalized in May 2014, to visit her and to assist Torres in her to fore the situation of prisoners, and eventually lost her two-day old personal needs. including the political detainees. The daughter Diona. The court denied At dawn of June 25, despite a glaring contrast in the government’s Rosal’s petition to attend the burial doctor’s order for complete bed rest handling of arrested plunderers and of Diona and was only granted three the inhuman jail condition and callous hours to attend the wake, the state’s treatment of political prisoners was version of ‘compassionate justice’. bared before the public. The Aquino On June 20, Maria Miradel government saw to it that senators Torres, 26, and four months pregnant are in ‘special’ detention cells and was arrested by the joint elements accorded ‘special privileges’ such as of Philippine National Police Special immediate hospitalization without Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), the any court order and special visitation Criminal Investigation and Detection rights, among others. Group (CIDG) and Southern Luzon The DAP and the inequality and Command of the Armed Forces of inconsistency in the government’s the Philippines (SolCom).
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