Archive for November, 2009
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Ampatuan massacre: A challenge of conscience
The brutal, indiscriminate mass murder on Monday in Ampatuan town, in Maguindanao province, raises the ultimate challenge of conscience. It carries the culture of impunity at work in this country to such levels of horror that, if it remains unpunished for long, can send the nation into an inexorable descent into absolute dehumanization.
The reason Monday’s incident became international news is because of the high number of victims killed all at once and because so many were journalists and women. Had the killings been spread out over weeks and months, very few outside of the province would have heard of it.
The 30 media workers comprise more than half of the 57 confirmed casualties of what is now known as the Maguindanao Massacre, according to a list compiled and verified by the Humanitarian and Fact-Finding Mission of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ), a network of independent media organizations, including the PCIJ.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) condemns
the harassment against our former national chairman Edgar Cadagat,
president of the Negros Press Club.
Three persons in a multi-cab vehicle and a motorcycle briefly stopped
at Mr. Cadagat’s house in Bacolod City in Negros Occidental province
Friday night. One of the persons fired a shot believed to be from [...]
International Fact Finding Mission to the Lumad areas in Northern Mindanao is greeted by the gruesome Maguindanao Massacre emphasizing the culture of impunity on the spate of extrajudicial killings besieging the country.
The activity dubbed as the Panaw Kalinaw: International Peace and Human Rights Mission (IPHRM) gathers more than six hundred peace and human rights advocates [...]
A week after the gruesome massacre that claimed 64 lives in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, various cause-oriented groups today will hold a March Against Impunity to demand justice for the victims. The groups will assemble at the University of Sto. Tomas before marching toward the Don Chino Roces Monument in Mendiola Bridge. Joining the march are journalists, lawyers, artists, human rights activists, women’s rights advocates, students and religious.
While government remains optimistic that remittances and Christmas spending will help pick up the economy after weak third quarter growth, research group IBON said there is no reason to be certain that the economy is going to achi
Saying that the ultimate responsibility for the climate of impunity rests with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today called on the president to step down and desist from pursuing public office in the 2010 elections.
Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press release/ statement or a manifesto. These materials [...]
MASSACRE IN MINDANAO
STATEMENT BY THE SPOKESMAN
OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AND EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
(Paris, November 24, 2009)
France condemns in the strongest terms the heinous massacre perpetrated yesterday in the Philippine province of Maguindanao, which, according to the latest reports, has reached a total of forty-six victims, mostly women and journalists.
It expresses its sincere condolences to the [...]
“Maguindanao is mired in an atmosphere of impunity, the causes of which are not only traceable to the proliferation of warlords and private armies, but to systemic neglect by national authorities to control these private armies and their patrons,” says CHR chairman Leila de Lima. “There are national officials who must be held accountable, perhaps not directly for the murders last Monday, but for allowing warlordism to fester in Maguindanao and elsewhere.”
Dozens of groups in the Philippines and abroad have denounced the Maguindanao massacre.
Click here to view a list of the statements and manifestos released so far.
Media Release: Philippines
November 24, 2009
IFJ Calls for Urgent Action over Massacre of Philippine Journalists
The IFJ has called for the international community to intervene to demand a full investigation to bring to justice those responsible for the biggest single massacre of working journalists in recent history.
The IFJ call came after at least twelve journalists were murdered [...]
NUJP Baguio-Benguet chapter statement
November 23 was a dark day for the media community, civil society and the Philippine nation as a whole.
The violent incident in Maguindanao did not only desecrate our continuing struggle for press freedom but it desecrated all levels of democracy such as right to life. [...]
Members and officers of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines chapter in Iligan City/Lanao strongly condemns to the highest degree of condemnation the barbaric act of the armed group responsible in the merciless killing of working journalists in Maguindanao province.
We urge the government to implement the rule of law and punish [...]
STATEMENT OF THE ZAMBOANGA-BASILAN-SULU-TAWI-TAWI (ZAMBASULTA) CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES ON THE MASSACRE OF TWELVE MEDIA PRACTITIONERS IN MAGUINDANAO PROVINCE, THE PHILIPPINES ON NOVEMBER 23, 2009.
We, members of the Zamboanga City chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), hereby express our most extreme outrage [...]
Reds seek activation of NPA hit squads in cities After Ampatuan Massacre, 2009 a Record Year for Journalist Killings Worldwide CHR to military: Respect and protect human rights during martial law in Maguindanao Maguindanao, its political elite and a culture subservient to corruption U.S. Must Improve Responsiveness to Mass Atrocities; Absent UN Action, Make Clear Willingness to Act on Its Own, Says New CFR Report Martial law dilutes the Philippines’s human rights and democratic gains Martial law in Maguindanao sets ‘most dangerous precedent’ Lawyers will wear black armbands, ribbons in courts Law group shall file plunder cases against President Arroyo et al. UN Experts: Maguindanao massacre must be the start of a major reform process
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