Death Squads, the CIA and Political Killings in Central Luzon

Stanley Karnow, in his book In Our Image, said the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the U.S. government brought the concept of death squads to the Philippines, specifically in Central Luzon, in the early 1950s through known CIA operatives Gen. Edward Lansdale and Charles Bohannan. These death squads have been known to perpetrate the annihilation of personalities from progressive organizations since then and to this day, and are seen as the culprits in the escalation of political killings in Central Luzon.

BY ABNER BOLOS
Gitnang Luzon News Service
Posted by Bulatlat













Southern Tagalog activists display pictures of their martyred comrades in a protest against political killings






Tirso Cruz, 33, officer of the United Luisita Workers’ Union (ULWU), was shot from behind while walking home along with his father and brother in their village in Pando, Concepcion town inside Hacienda Luisita (120 kms. north of Manila), shortly past midnight last March 17.


The two assailants rode a motorcycle and wore ski masks to cover their faces. Cruz died instantly from nine bullets from an M-16 rifle used by the assassins. After committing the murder, the killers poked their guns at Cruz’s brother and calmly drove away passing an army detachment some 100 meters away.





The soldiers and Citizens’ Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) members inside the detachment at the time of the shooting did not bother to investigate or help the victim. They even put out the lights when a barangay tanod (village security) member ran to the detachment minutes after the shooting to report the crime and plead for help.


“Death squads”


The cold-blooded murder of Cruz, the 14th martyr of Hacienda Luisita, bore the trademarks of a “death squad” operation. Aside from the characteristic motorcycle and ski mask, it was carried out with a deadly, surgical precision in a populated area very near a military outpost.


Not one of the perpetrators of the 601 killings and 151 enforced disappearances since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed the presidency has been tried and sentenced. The public’s verdict: the death squads were let loose and are being protected by the government.


In Central Luzon, at least 98 people have either been killed or abducted and presumed dead since January 2005 to May 17 this year, and almost all are blamed on the government’s death squads, states Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights)-Central Luzon.


The number of victims increased significantly when Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan was designated as commander of the 7th Infantry Division in September last year, says Sr. Cecille Ruiz, Karapatan-CL chairperson.


Palparan is one of the main implementors of Oplan Bantay Laya, the government’s counterinsurgency program. The 7th ID covers the seven provinces of the region –Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Zambales, Bataan and Aurora.


Ruiz said 53 persons were killed and 24 were abducted and remained missing since Palparan was transferred to the region. The incidents represent 78 percent or more than three-fourths of all cases monitored in the region by Karapatan-CL from January 2005 to May 2006.


Sixty per cent of all murders and enforced disappearances in the entire country from September 2005 to the present occurred in Central Luzon and coincided with Palparan’s transfer, states Karapatan-CL.


CIA


Stanley Karnow, in his book In Our Image said the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the U.S. government brought the concept of death squads to the Philippines, specifically in Central Luzon, in the early 1950s through known CIA operatives Gen. Edward Lansdale and Charles Bohannan.


The death squads were then known as “skull squadrons” because of their practice of beheading their victims who were mostly suspected members or supporters of the Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon (Hukbalahap or People’s Anti-Japanese Army) or the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (HMB or People’s Liberation Army).


Col. Napoleon Valeriano of the Philippine Constabulary (PC) supervised death squad operations to suppress local peasant resistance under CIA direction, Karnow wrote.


During the Marcos dictatorship, the PC organized an armed group known as “Monkees” in Tarlac province, and other similar groups in the region, that killed hundreds of suspected members or supporters of the newly-formed New People’s Army (NPA), as well as the political opponents of Ferdinand Marcos.


It is well known that the Marcos dictatorship reigned with covert CIA backing. Human rights records show that 1,166 people, mostly unarmed peasants, were killed at the height of the dictatorship from 1972 to 1983.


After Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino was installed president in 1986, armed vigilante groups and fanatic cults organized by the Philippine military sprouted across the country. They were a component of the government’s “total war” counterinsurgency campaign within the aegis of the “low intensity conflict” doctrine of the U.S. government.


As many as 50 vigilante groups were formed in the entire country. Records show that 1,064 persons were killed, including 135 cases of massacres, during the Aquino presidency.


The groups, like the Alsa Masa and Tadtad in Mindanao, gained notoriety for mutilating the bodies of their victims. Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, a U.S. military adviser and a high profile CIA operative, is widely believed to be involved in the formation of said groups.


Invariably, albeit without public acknowledgement, death squads are an integral part of the government counterinsurgency program.


Oplan Bantay Laya


Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) is a five-year program of the Arroyo government aimed at eliminating “threats to national security.” It started in 2002 and at first, targeted “terrorist” groups and the armed secessionist movement in Mindanao island.


The OBL was formulated by the Philippine government as its part in the “global war on terror” doctrine of the US.


In 2003, the OBL program was shifted to neutralize and destroy the threat posed by the New People’s Army (NPA) and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Central Luzon is among the seven regions identified by the military as priority targets in the implementation of the OBL.


In 2004, the Arroyo government received $4.6 billon for military and economic assistance and $30 million for counterinsurgency exercises from the U.S. government.


The gruesome shooting of seven strikers on Nov. 16, 2004 at the picket line at the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita placed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP) and President Arroyo in a defensive posture as the government was blamed for the carnage.


Bible


In January 2005, the government declared that the strike of the plantation and sugar mill workers in Hacienda Luisita has become “a matter of national security” through a Power Point Presentation entitled Knowing the Enemy which was made available to the public.


The AFP also came out with a book titled Trinity of War which, like the presentation, deals on how the government intends to destroy the CPP and the NPA basing primarily on their study of the events in Hacienda Luisita.


The book and the presentation has, since then, served as the Bible of the Arroyo government, especially the generals in the AFP and PNP, in the counterinsurgency campaign within over-all the framework of Oplan Bantay Laya.


But the circulation of the materials in the military and police hierarchy, as well as the general public, also signalled the start of intensified killing and grave human rights violations of leaders and members of militant organizations not only in Hacienda Luisita, but in the entire region and the rest of the country.


In the book and the presentation, legal organizations and institutions suspected as “fronts” of the CPP and the NPA are considered “enemies of the state.” Foremost among these are the party-list organizations Bayan Muna (People First) and Anakpawis (Toiling Masses) and the sectoral organizations belonging to the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance).


Even traditional groups such as church and media organizations were not spared and listed as “enemies of the state.” The accusations drew widespread indignation from the public.


“Enemies of the state”


At noon on March 3, 2005, a sniper shot and killed Abelardo Ladera, 45, a Tarlac City councillor. Ladera is from barangay Balite, inside Hacienda Luisita, a popular Bayan Muna leader in the province and ardent supporter of the striking Hacienda Luisita workers.


Ladera is third on a list of seven individuals that in the book and the presentation are described by the military as instigators of the Luisita strike and therefore are “enemies of the state.” The assassination of Ladera was followed by a long string of murders and gross human violations of leaders and members of militant organizations in Central Luzon that has not stopped to this day.


The names of most of the people killed in the region appeared in various military “hit list” or “order of battle” before they were killed. The lists are drawn supposedly from intelligence reports.


Luisita union leader Tirso Cruz, who was also an elected council member in his barangay, was tagged by the Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) as the “secretary of the revolutionary committee” in the village several months before he was murdered.


To be included in the list is has been considered as a sure prelude to a death squad attack in utter disregard to existing laws and basic human rights.


Last month, because of the increasing number and regularity of the murders and the refusal of the Arroyo government to investigate and punish the perpetrators, an editorial of the Philippine Daily Inquirer described the killings as a ”systematic policy of extermination” of the critics of the Arroyo government.

The terms “death squads” and “political killings” have also become part of the popular vocabulary.


Global


Death squads have appeared not only in the Philippines but all over the world.


In a collection of books and articles gathered by author Ralph McGehee entitled CIA Support of Death Squads that was posted in the Internet in 1999, death squads were alleged to have been organized and supported by the CIA in 43 countries, most of them coming from the Third World including the Philippines.


According to the materials, there appears to be several but common patterns on how death squads are born and operate. Among these are:

Death squads appear whenever there is a strong popular movement against poverty and oppression resulting from “US dominance” in said countries. Death squads also appear when a “progressive” government takes power and resists US impositions.

The US government, through the CIA, trains, provide arms and finances the death squads in cooperation with the regime in power.

Death squads are a part of official policies and programs, although not publicly admitted.

High-profile implementors like Gen. Jose Alberto Medrano of El Salvador, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras of Haiti and Maj. Gen Jovito Palparan of the Philippines are employed.

The killings continue until the objective of weakening the popular resistance is not met or unless there is very strong local and international condemnation and pressure

Blatant


In the Philippines, as in the case in Central Luzon, the operation of death squads is blatantly used in the framework of Oplan Bantay Laya.


Instead of prosecuting soldiers accused of the crimes, Maj. Gen. Palparan even points the blame on the victims themselves.


In a recent published media interview, Palparan was quoted as saying: “They (the victims) should ask themselves, what are they doing?”


Last week, bowing to widespread indignation and a report from Amnesty International that is critical of the role of the Arroyo government in the killings, a government task force was formed to investigate the incidents. The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has also started its own investigation.

But based on the experiences of other countries, and our own experiences in toppling the Marcos dictatorship, it will take a lot more than investigations to stop the killings. Bulatlat

March vs. political killings reaches Mendiola

A 3,000-strong peaceful march calling for an end to political killings and human rights violations successfully reached historic Mendiola bridge, only to be dispersed by water cannons and truncheons twenty minutes later.

Led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), the marchers demanded that Mrs. Arroyo declare an end to the state policy of killing activists and political opponents which, according to human rights watchdog Karapatan, has victimized 679 civilians

The latest casualty in the Arroyo policy of killing activists was Marcos Bangit who was shot dead last night in Echague, Isabela. A native of Kalinga province, Bangit was serving the Elders Desk of the Cordillera People’s Alliance. Until 2004, he was provincial coordinator of Bayan Muna in Kalinga province.

The protesters arrived on Mendiola Bridge at exactly 12:00 noon, to shouts of victory from passersby and the marchers themselves. The anti-riot police started dispersing them with water cannons twenty minutes later. But unlike the first march that reached Mendiola on April 6, this time the protesters held their ground longer. The police had to order the firetrucks to follow the marchers who retreated to nearby Bustillos Market.

“Remove the fascist military from the rural areas,” the marchers shouted, in an apparent reference to soldiers led by the likes of Major Gen. Jovito Palparan who is now terrorizing civilian communities in Bulacan province.

Some flashed placards bearing pictures of some of activists assassinated by suspected military elements.

Leading the protest were Bayan Secretary-General Renato Reyes Jr., Bayan Chairperson Dr. Carol Pagaduan Araullo, Anakpawis Rep. and KMP Chairperson Rafael Mariano, Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño and leaders of farmers’ organizations from Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog.

House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo swiftly condemned the dispersal of the peaceful march. “The Arroyo government again bare its fascist pangs on people who were only asking for an end to political assassinations. The people will never forget and forgive her barbarity in treating opponents and critics.”

The protesters reached Mendiola close to three hours since they started marching from UST along España. They were initially stalled for two hours by a phalanx of anti-riot police near the corner of Morayta and España streets.

Sensing that authorities were intent in preventing them from approaching Mendiola via Morayta and Recto, the protest leaders decided to take P. Noval Street and other side streets until marchers successfully reached Mendiola Bridge at about high noon.

The President is Wrong!

CHED REGION VII DIRECTOR: The President is Wrong!
National Union of Students of the
Philippines

- Visayas







Press Release

May 21, 2006




CHED REGION VII DIRECTOR: The President is Wrong!






The President does not know the law






During the meeting with the Regional Multi-Sectoral Committee on Tuition Increase last May 19, Dr. Enrique P. Grecia, CHED Region VII director told the body that PGMA is wrong in releasing press statements that she is not allowing schools to raise tuition more than the National Inflation Rate (NIR). The issuance of the recent CHED Memorandum No. 14, which she approved May of last year, prevents this from happening.




“The President does not know the law.” Dr. Grecia said after analyzing the contents of the memorandum. This reflects that PGMA is ignorant of the laws of the land. More so, PGMA is manipulating the people not to be active in expressing concerns regarding the surmounting tuition.




All for Politics






“The public display of concern for the students and the youth shown by PGMA is all for politics. There is no sincerity in her acts; it is all a pretense to save her rotting image. There is no hope for the youth in her. There is no hope for the country with such a president,” stated NUSP Vice President for the Visayas, Ma. Fe Jayme.




Thinking that the people will be foolish to believe yet another ploy from her office, PGMA issues this press statement. The people should be more vigilant against the façade of concern that PGMA is showing because it is all for her glory, it is all to raise her ratings and publicity. There is no truth to all her promises.




Concrete Actions






“This idiocy caused by memorandums that do not benefit the students should be further reason for us, students, to unite. The problem brought about by surmounting tuition increases will not only affect us. The struggle is for our parents who pay for our education,” called Jayme.




“What we do now and the opposition we launch against tuition increase will not only benefit us but the coming generations as well.”




“Education is our right but PGMA doesn’t appear to know that. With an inutile president, we have to take these matters into our hands and struggle for what is rightly ours and oust the ignorant president,” Jayme concluded.

change of season, change of heart (posted last May 11, 2006)

today the country is under tropical depression. yes this is the mark of change of season. now summer is officially over.

but as days passes by, the mode of life change. you were no long the person that i knew before. you look different and sound diffirent too. you've become a stranger every day and we both did'nt know. and now i just realized that even we are near to each other but still miles apart. i guess your the living prof that things in this world will change.

i just hope that you can talk to me. face me and look at me in the eye. tell me what you feel inside. i'm just here waiting for you even it will take me forever.

yo-yo for a day

i bought a yo-yo yesterday. i have no idea why but i just did. weird ah? yeah sometime i just do some weird staffs… hehehehe but come to think of it i was just like throwing money. if nanay find out about this then i am in trouble.

i felt bad about buying useless things. i mean come to think of it, many people in the world are starving to death and i'm here buying useless things. nanay teach me not to wast money, that we should live in a simple way. i can always remember her lines "simpleng pamumuhay, puspusang pakikibaka" (simple way of life, thorough strugle).

lubas pics

pic sa lubas.... from the left holding a scissor wearing black shirt me, wearing red shirt inday rechelle, then on pink stripe ate kaira, on white is mama roxane, then on red is ROWENA CARRANZA-PARAAN Director, National Union of Journalists of the PhilippinesAssociate Editor, Philippine Graphic magazine, Managing Editor, Bulatlat.com, nanay pypai on blue, and last tiya karen on darker red.

wish it will all be gone

i wish it will all be gone by morning. the same pain i have to live up every day. dark clouds that formed over our heads for the past week and five days. it is one of the most darkest days of our lives. emotionally it leaves my body powerless and eventually turns to death. inside my head, it tells me that i should be strong for little Ghe-ghe. but some times when i'm alone i feel the pain, the great pain and it scares me that may not have the strength to battle this problems. yes i am weak, i'm not like nanay or tiya… i'm just Ian the mouse, the scared one.

Still the same

Its been a week and four days when they broke up. My heart still in grief, and pain seems to stay forever. Its just like a bad dream and I just wish that I will be awaken from all of this. I love them both and don't want to choose from either of them. My love for them is equal. In the darkness I cry, when I'm alone I feel the great pain of loosing two people you love and you will love forever. In the morning I just wish that this is over that things will come back to normal, that they will be back in each others arms. nanay said to me that the door for reconciliation is not yet close, that there is still hope for the two of them. Hope I am brave enough to tell them how I feel and it hurt us all specially if ghe-ghe will find out about it. I know she too will take it the hard way. I don't want to tell her I don't want her to get hurt, I hope that she didn't find out the news. I love her too, and I don't want her to feel the pain that I am feeling. Its hard and I don't think she will be able to take it.

empi

in this world where capitalism is god, where poor people suffers til death. you still say to me that i should keep my head down and pretend that there is peace. well i did, i did bow to them... to the gods. i even worship them just to survive... to keep my self alive. i offer them gold and all my possession, i even became their slave. but the sad part is, in the end of the day i lay on the ground lifeless.

summer

darkness is almost over and the sun will appear soon. i will be welcoming the sunrise in summers. its been 31 days and 30 nights since you left and the last time i have heard your voice.

i miss you!

i just hope that i can say it to you, but the sad things is i can't. here i am standing in the dark again, hiding from the light. the sadness that i have keept from the people. yes i did feel the pain, and again it's swallowing me and killing me slowly. and in silnce i will cry.

yes i still remember you every time the sun appears in the horizon. yes i still remember you as i open my eyes to the wonders of the world. and yes i remember you every time i'm alone and one to talk to. like; when i ride a jeepney to where ever i go. or like of example when i pour cold water each i time i take a bath. i see you! and in moments like this while i'm writing this, i still think ok you.

and soon the sun will appear again in the horizon, i will think of you. until on it's setting. until the moment i close my eyes, i will be thinking of you.

no change

media men are under surviellance, since the lifting of the proclamation 1017 non has change but even worsen. the national telecommunication commission issued new set of guidelines.

These circulars state that "all radio broadcasting and television stations shall, during any broadcast or telecast, cut off from the air the speech, play, act or scene or other matter being broadcast and/or telecast, if the tendency thereof is to propose and/or incite treason, rebellion or treason, or language used therein or the theme thereof is indecent or immoral."

from pcij.org/blog

can this be what? i can't define

before day ends you texted me. me... i didn't expect that. of all people you are the one.

i still remember the day that we have parted, you still give that wonderful smile like the ones you gave when you were introduce to me. you and your friend were shy. may be because you aren't that good in our language or may be you were just shy. you were very cute when you stare at me, as if you were looking at me right down to my very soul. i could say that their something magical in you and i just couldn't figure it out.

at that time, my mind was clouded with pain of the break up of my recent relationship. the very pain that stops me to be close to you. to go near you is like hell, it seems my heart was ripped off. may be i was scared that people might think that i am just using you to get over someone.

i don't want to hurt you, you deserve something special for you are special. like morning in summers, when you wake up and see the sun appear in the horizon that brings gladness in everyone's heart. and you can't notice that every time you see that wonderful sight you just can't help but smile.

then at the moment, when your fingers caressing but perfectly those stings of guitar, those strings though angels sings in the accompaniment of that old but not that old guitar.

but 3 days were short for the two of us. and the time has come us to go and continue our tasks. i was the first one to leave, you and your friend tried to stop me from walking away. but it was too late, for i must leave. like Cinderella in that fairy tell story, that when the clock strikes 12 mid night it means its time to go back. with a heavy heart i took my first step to the door and walk away. i didn't gave you my number when you ask me to (that night when you sing a waray to us together with your friend), i said to myself, its better to forget about you and forget this night. the night that my heart aches healed as you pluck those melodies right through my heart. that stitches the broken pieces of my heart.

a month later an unknow number appear in my cellphone with a message saying hi. and that was the day that i could not stop myself again from drifting closer to you.

four months later after that sad parting time. i'm still here mumbling to myself. why can't i forget about you. i stopped texting you, why your picture appear in my mind. what is this, i can't define. and every time you text me even just to say hi, my heart jumps in and out of my chest. but inside my head, its like my brains is tumbling around, tumbling around, round and round and round until you get dizzy and drop like hell on the ground. its like your brain stormed your heart with questions. but your heart can't answer you logical brain for heart can only feel the happiness and pain.

FFM

Barangay Mahayag
Luntian Maharlika Amihan

Maraming punong kahoy, sariwa ang hangin, at higit sa lahat tahimik. “Ngunit ang magandang kapaligiran at ang nakakabinging katahimikan ay may nakabadyang panganib.”

Marso 13, 2005, lingo, pasado ala-una ng hapon, binasag ang katahimikan ng malalakas na ulan ng mga bala sa pagitan ng Arm Forces of the Philippines at New Peoples Army sa isang maliit na barrio. Isa ang patay sa hanay ang mga AFP, habang walang natamaan sa pagitan ng mga NPA.

Nanghuli ang mga milirary ng mga pinaghihinalaang NPA, pito ka katao, tatlo nito ay mga menor de edad.

Mga Biktima

“Sa dikalayuan sa pinangyarihan ng putukan, kunsaan ang ating paglalakbay ay magsisimula, sa bahay ni Leah.”

Mga ala-una ng hapon, madaling lumabas ng bahay sina aling Leah at ang kanyang pamilya, pumunta sa bahay ng kapatid na si aling Alberta ng makarinig sila ng malakas na putokan malapit sa bahay nila. Patuloy parin ang putukan kahit nakarating na sila sa bahay ng kanyang kapatid.

Bandang alas-tres ng hapon ay luminaw na ang paligid, wala ng putukan, kaya naisipan ni leah na bumalik sa bahay nila para kumuha ng pagkain dahil hindi pa sila nagtatanghalian.

Sinamahan siya ng kanyang kapatid na si aling Alberta at ng kanyang tiya na si aling Juana. Pagdating nila sa bahay ay bumulantang kaagad sakanila ang mga nagkala na gamit sa bahay nila. Ang pitaka ni alingLeah ay natagpuan na niya malapit sa pintuan ng bahay. Habang ang kanilang mga damit ay nagkalat na kung saan-saan.

Kaya madali silang lumabas ng bahay, ngunit naabutan sila ng mga military. Tinawag sila ng isang army. Pinalapit sila sa mga ito. Kaya naman ay madali silang lumapit sa mga army. Ngunit nangyari ang hindi nila inaasahan. Paglapit agad nila sa mga ito ay kabikabilang sampal at sapak ang inabot nila. Sa makatuwid ay binugbog sila ng mga ito.

Tinanong din sila kun mga NPA bad aw sila, bakit daw hindi sila nagsusumbong na may tunnel na ginawa ang mga NPA. At bakit daw hindi sila sinabihan na may kampo ang mga NPA malapit sa bahay nila. Tinwag silang mga supporters ng NPA.

Ngunit nagpaliwanag sila aling Leah, kahit malapit lang daw ang bahay nila sa may Tunnel ay hindi nila alam na may Tunnel doon, dahil hindi naman daw sila sumuopunta doon dahil masukal na lugar doon. At saka hindi naman nila lupa iyon, bakit naman daw sila pupunta doon. Sakasamaang palad ay hindi nakinig ang mga military sa kanilang paliwanag.

Mayamay ay dumating ang chairman sa organisasyon nila sa MAFA (Mahayag Farmers Association) na si Maria Luna. Pumunta siya sa lugan malapit sa putukan para makibalita sa nangyari. Ngunit dirin niya inaasahan ang sumunod na mga pang yayari. Nakita rin siya ng mga military at nakatikim din siya ng mga pasakit sa kamay ng mga ito. Tinanong din siya kung NPA ba siya.

Maya-may ay dumating si mang Pepe kasama si Nelson 12 taong gulang, kukunin sana nila ang kalabaw na iniwan sa may Sitio Olotan. Pero nang dumaan sila malapit sa bahay ni Leah ay tinawag sila ng Army. At tulad ng iba din rin nakaligtas si mang Pepe ang naranasan nila aling Leah sa mga kamay ng military. Tinanong din sila mang Pepe at nelson kung mga NPA ba daw sila

Kasama nila aling Leah, aling Alberta at aling JuanaJuana ay inipon sila sa isang lugar. Pagkatapos ay biglang nagpaputok ang armalite ang isang army, inubaos pa ang isang magasin ng bala. One inch lang ang layo sa paa nila at tiyak na mahahagip na ito ng bala.

Pagkatapos dumating sina Josefa 16 taong gulang at Crispin 8 taong gulang, malapit sa bahay nila Leah, dahil inutosan sila ng nanay nilang kumuha ng gulay sa may Sitio Olotan. Tulad din ng iba ay nakita sila ng mga military at pinalapit sa kanila. Tinanong sila kung mga NPA ba sila, tumanggi ang mga bata. Tinawag ng mga military ng Kumander Lina si Josefa, dahil siya membro ng isang organisasyon ng mga kabataan (anak bayan). Pero tumanggi ang dalaga na siya ay si Kumander Lina.

Isinakay sila sa luob ng canter, kasama nila ang patay na katawan ng isang army. Tinakot sila na hanggang ala-sais na lang sila ng gabi at itatabi na sila sa kasa mahan nilang army na namatay. Nataakot silang lahat, lalo na ang mga bata.

Nagrequest sila na dumaan muna sila sa bahay ng barrio captain, para masabihan siya ns hinuli sila ng mga military. Ngunit wala sa bahay ang brrio captain kay idiniretsop na sila sa Police Precent I para imbistigahan, hindi raw sila magtatagal at pakakawalan sin dila, sabi ng isang military.

Pagdating nila doon ay i-ninterview sila ng mga taga media. Ngunit taliwas sa sinabi ng isang military na pakakawalan agad sila ay I-nidetained sila, apat (4) na araw ang mga bata sa loob ng kukungan habang limang (5) buwan at dalawang (2) araw naman ang mga matatanda. Kinasuhab sila ng illegal possession of explosives at murder.

Sa ngayon ay na dismiss na ang kaso, pero pangsamantala parin ang kalayan ng mga bata.



Marami pang kagaya nila Leah, Juana, Alberta, Pepe, Nelson, Josefa, at Crispi. Ang iba ay mas kalunos-lunos pa ang kanila naranasan sa mga kamay ng isang pasistang gobyerno Ang militarisasyon sa kabundukan ang siyang nagpapahirap sa mga kababayan natin, na siyang gumubuo sa 75% ng ating populasyon, ang mga magsasaka.


IBAGSAK ANG MILITARISASYON SA KABUNDUKAN!
IBAGSAK ANG PASISTANG GOBYERNO!
IBAGSAK ANG REHEMING US-MACAPAGAL ARROYO!

IPAGLABAN ANG MASANG API
MAKILAHOK AT LUMABAN IPAGTANGGOL INANG BAYAN!

Note: Ang mga pangalan ng mga biktima ay sadyang pinalitan para na rin sa kanilang siguridad.



Sources: FFM conducted by KARAPATAN Central Visayas and Katungod

media advisory

The Arroyo Resign Movement of the Youth with the League of Filipino
Student from San Francisco, USA chapter will be having a Solidarity
Night this saturday, July 30, 2005, 6pm at CENDET auditorium. this
willl be attended by different organizations and convenors of the
said alliance.

This will also give way to the media to ask wuestions regarding the
Alliance LFS USA's stand about the current political crisis and the
recent campus repression experience by an ARM d' Youth coordinator
in UV.

Your presence will be of much help to air opinions and grievances.

Thank You

For reference:

Jaydar Medrozo
SPOKESPERSON
ARM d' Youth
09278301014

dis s it

Reminding all chruvas and kumikembot pipz, bukas national day of protest (magstre-street party nanaman tayo). Hope to see you there (di natalaga ako aabsent bukas, honest talaga!). Salahat ng member sa family dito sa Ubec (Cebu) 1 pm po tayo, assembly area guisano metro, tapos mamarcha tayo patungong Malacañang of the south. Magready na lang kayo, may nasagap kasi akong chika na may fire truck na naka parked doon (please bring extra shirts bukas and antipyretic na gamot). K?!!! kitakits nalang mga kapatid…..Ü

sounds famili.... "martial law?"

By Jasper Almirante/ Bulatlat

Peaceful assembly and free expression are basic civil rights, enshrined no less in the Philippine Constitution. But amid public discontent over oil price hikes and other issues, the authorities have found a convenient pretext for suppressing the exercise of these rights: the Marcos-vintage no-permit-no-rally policy. The use of a no-permit-no-rally policy to crush almost every act of legitimate dissent, amid a multitude of reasons for taking to the streets, can only drive the people to vent their anger even more. So where’s now the so-called “maximum tolerance” policy?

sad jud

bwesit jud na admin.... wish ko lang ma dedo nana cla para mabawasan ang mga evil sa mondong ibabaw... sana kunin na cla ni satanas... yong god nila ba... yong my maraming sungay....

editing moments

ang time na nawarla ang pipol.... nagbaha ng dugo... pinatianay jud ang show... ang editing moments ng mga quiilers "manunutat na maisug kamot sa pakig bisog."



ANO ITO??? grace paki explain sa'kin.... UNSA NI????!!! labad na ako ulo, bili cguro ako advil sa tin dahan... kamo sa bahala sa articles... tarunga na ha!!!! bantay lang ig balik na ko wala pa na natarong...



ate marian saon tani mga matay nata... patyon na ta ni tiya karen.... naglabad na ra ba iya ulo... saon! edward stop reading tsabangi kono mi!!! UNSAON TA NI???



nanay pypai "Gah!!! tanawa inah nitago hadlok ni jube, hehehehe!"
tatay eden "Gah!! ayaw pagsamok diha, i'm reading checai's article about fiscal crisis. naglabad na pud akon na ulo, unsa man iya gi mean di ko ma gets!!!
nanay pypai " hilum sa kuno.... unsa ni? ano ba itetch!!!! diko rin magets. jube ok ra ka tid mo red na ang oren ni mo gisulob!"



inah'y "ayaw'g saba ni tago ko.... morag nasuko na si jube..."



checai "unsaon ma ni uy!!! naglabad akong ulo sa akong gi sulat...."



dadi jube "unsaon man ta ni??? libog kaayo.... naglagot na ko!!!!!"

lunch tym.... si grace kumakain ng magisa.... guys lubayan nyo mo na yan.... kain mu na ta yo pls... di na ako makatiis.....and sarap kasi ng adobo ni inah'y.... hehehehe!!!!

kapoy

kapoy diay ang yfc.... karon lang ko naka objectify... for how many year na nako sa service, for almost 6 year nako sa org na yon.... this is the firt tym na gikapoy jud ko.... parang gusto mo ng umiyak... when you need somebody or anybody para mo tabang sa imo... walang who ever na pwedeng maghelp sayo.... i'm still hoping na one day.... isang araw na mamakikita nila na this org needs teamwork... kaya nga org di ba? that di to kaya ng isang tao lang... we need everybody to participate in all it's incomming activities....

oh no!!!!

classes nanaman... sad nako kay no more freedom... back to school and sa among balay....