Group hits Aquino gov’t ‘No Money’ policy for death row OFWs blood money request
10/28/2011A progressive overseas Filipino workers’ rights group in the Middle East today scored the Aquino administration’s “No Money” policy for death row OFWs’ blood money, saying “it is brazenly insensitive to the plight of OFWs on death row despite numerous appeal from their families, relatives, fellow OFWs and various OFWs organizations.”
“Comparatively speaking, the Aquino government is much more insensitive to the plight of our OFWs on death row compared to the previous administration,” Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona lamented.
Monterona said despite numerous appeals from the death row OFWs specifically from OFW Rogelio “Dondon” Lanuza and his family, relatives, and friends and pressure from the public and various OFWs organizations, the Aquino government is yet to come up its policy on OFWs blood money.
“The Aquino government provided P5 million for the MILF, while it has nothing to contribute for the blood money of OFWs on death row,” Monterona lamented..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20111028nat4.html
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mga dilaw na ito sanay sa massacre o kamatayan ng mga malilit, tulad ng hacienda luisita farmers, mendiola.marching farmers, at ordinaryong sundalong lumalaban sa milf.
"Monterona said despite numerous appeals from the death row OFWs specifically from OFW Rogelio “Dondon” Lanuza and his family, relatives, and friends and pressure from the public and various OFWs organizations, the Aquino government is yet to come up its policy on OFWs blood money.
"“The Aquino government provided P5 million for the MILF, while it has nothing to contribute for the blood money of OFWs on death row,” Monterona lamented."
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