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Killing season in the Philippines

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Sunday June 18, 2006 02:07author by Herbert Docena - Focus on the Global South Report this post to the editors

The escalating repression taking place now in the Philippines is no coincidence. Twenty years since the end of the dictatorship and three "people's power" uprisings later, Philippine society is hugely polarized.

Killing season in the Philippines
Killing season in the Philippines

MANILA - Political activist Cathy Alcantara was gunned down by unidentified assailants last December 5, outside the resort where she had helped to organize a conference on farmers' rights.

Two months later, the lifeless body of her activist friend, 19-year-old Audie Lucero, was found in a remote rice field. Lucero was last seen surrounded by police officers and soldiers in a hospital lobby, inexplicably crying.

Annaliza Abanador-Gandia, another left-leaning activist, had frequently marched with the two victims, often at the forefront of demonstrations calling for various sorts of political change, including the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, an end to US military exercises in the Philippines, and overhaul of the World Trade Organization's free-trade policies .......

Full Report continues at: Focus on the Philippines - http://www.focusweb.org/philippines/content/view/99/3/

Main site at: http://www.focusweb.org/philippines/


Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) - http://www.philippinehumanrights.org/

PHILIPPINE LEFT LINKS:

Laban ng Masa (LnM - Fight of the Masses) - http://www.labanngmasa.org/
Akbayan (Citizens' Action Party) - http://www.akbayan.org/
Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) - http://www.apl.org.ph/
BISIG (Arm - Union of Filipino Socialists) - http://www.filipinosocialist.org/
Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP - Union of Filipino Workers) - http://www.geocities.com/bukluran
Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) - http://www.freedomfromdebtcoalition.org/
Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD) - http://www.ipd.ph/
Kalayaan (Freedom) - http://www.geocities.com/makakalayaan
Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya (KPD - Movement for National Democracy) - http://kilusan-para-sa-pambansang-demokrasya.blogspot.com/
Padayon (Continue with the Struggle) - http://www.philsol.nl/org/padayon/programa-set99.htm
Partido ng Manggagawa (PM - Worker's Party) - http://partidongmanggagawa.org.ph/
Sanlakas (Combined Force) - http://www.geocities.com/sanlakasonline/index.html

Europe Solidare Sans Frontires:

Philippines - http://www.europe-solidaire.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=6
Human Rights - http://www.europe-solidaire.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubriq...ue=28
Political Situation - http://www.europe-solidaire.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=7
The Left - http://www.europe-solidaire.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubriq...ue=20
Key Word = "Philippines" - http://www.europe-solidaire.org/recherche.php3?recherch...pines

Related Link: http://www.focusweb.org/philippines/
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