ARMY VICTIMS CHARGE PERPETRATORS BEFORE OMBUDSMAN

Cebu City–Victims of recent military abuses in Sta.Catalina, Negros Oriental filed formal complaints last Friday at the Ombudsman-Visayas against five identified soldiers of the 79th Infantry Battalion, including its commanding officer Lt. Col. Pio Dinoso.

dangerous lies

an open letter to the press 22 March, 2011 The Editor-in-Chief Visayan Daily Star Dear Sir: We are gravely concerned over the news article by Judy Fartlow in your paper on Friday (18 March, 2011) declaring thus “KARAPATAN leader’ killed in NPA, Army encounter,” in Barangay Nagbinlod, Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental last week. The charge [...]

KARAPATAN CONDEMNS ILLEGAL ARREST/DETENTION OF ITS PROBERS

Cebu City—The premier human rights umbrella here condemned the illegal arrest and detention of four of its volunteer investigators in Sta.Catalina, Negros Oriental by elements of Alpha Compnay-79th Infantry Battalion (IB) last Wednesday evening for trying to bring to the town center a resident earlier shot that day by elements of the 1st Scout Rangers [...]

tortured anew

Scenes from the distribution of the controversial Swift-Campos settlement monies to Marcos victims in Central Visayas; March 11, 2011, Cebu City. the anguish of waiting       for loose change       that never come           for many