Posted in Human Rights, tagged Iraq war, migrant rights, overseas Filipino workers on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
SA TABI ng kalsada, nakita niya ang pira-pirasong bahagi ng helikopter at tangke. Minsan, bangkay. Nang unang makita ito ni Jonathan Abad, 35 anyos, ramdam agad niya ang panganib: Nasa gitna siya ng pinakamapanganib na lugar sa mundo – Iraq.
“Masyadong risky,” pailing na kuwento ni Jonathan, hinggil sa karanasan niya sa pagmamaneho ng trak ng [...]
Posted in Human Rights, tagged desaparecidos, Karen Empeño, Sherlyn Cadapan on June 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Picket at the Court of Appeals where a writ of amparo case is being heard last June 4. It was also the last day of the International Week of the Disappeared.
Posted in Human Rights, tagged armed forces of the philippines, Human Rights, jovito palparan, romeo tolentino on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Except for the part about “utak pulbura” being translated, rather literally, as “minds made up of gunpowder”, Nikko Dizon’s story on anonymous sources within the Armed Forces acknowledging what we have known all along — that the military has been implementing a wide-scale campaign to extra-judicially execute perceived enemies of the state — is a [...]
Posted in Human Rights, tagged desaparecidos, enforced disappearances, Karen Empeño, Sherlyn Cadapan on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
The results for the DNA test on the cadaver found in Pangasinan are in, and as Nanay Linda had opined, it’s not Sherlyn Cadapan nor Karen Empeño. It’s a bit of good news for the families of Sherlyn and Karen. It makes me wonder, though, about the identity of the woman whose cadaver was found. [...]
Posted in Human Rights, tagged human rights abuses, military culture, name-calling, nora aunor, philippines on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Nora Aunor’s famous character in Minsan sa Isang Gamu-gamo, (or was it the Kano character, who thought Nora’s kid brother was a pig?) was, I think, largely responsible for likening victims of human rights abuses to pigs (”My brother is not a pig”). It was, of course, said to have been based on real events, [...]
Posted in Human Rights, tagged desaparecidos, Human Rights, Linda Cadapan, philippines, Sherlyn Cadapan on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nanay Linda Cadapan texted me a couple of days ago. She said that based on initial investigation, the body exhumed from a grave in Labrador, Pangasinan PROBABLY may not be that of her daughter, the missing student activist Sherlyn Cadapan. The cadaver was initally found to to have dentures in the upper part of her [...]
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