Reign of assassins
By LUIS V. TEODOROVantage Point | BusinessWorld
President Benigno Aquino III has “vowed,” say media reports, to get the killers of Fr. Fausto Tentorio even if they should turn out to be members of the paramilitary groups he, Aquino, has refused to dismantle.
The call has been made often for the dismantling of paramilitary groups, among them the Civilian Volunteer Organizations (CVOs) and Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Units (CAFGU) armed and trained by the Armed Forces and that have figured prominently in the assassinations and massacres, illegal arrest and detention, and abduction and torture that in many areas of the Philippine countryside occur with impunity.
But that call assumed particular urgency in the aftermath of the Ampatuan Massacre of Nov. 23, 2009, in which the CVOs that were functioning as part of the private armies of the Maguindanao warlords figured prominently.
Fr. Tentorio was the missionary who had been working in Mindanao for 30 years, among whose advocacies in behalf of the lumad (non-Muslim) communities he was serving included opposition to mining. Fr. Tentorio was killed by unidentified gunmen last Monday, October 17, outside a church in Arakan, North Cotabato.
By no means was the Fr. Tentorio killing the only incident of its kind. Others, including priests, community activists, and Muslim and lumad leaders, have also been killed in Mindanao, both prior to and during the present administration...... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/10/28/reign-of-assassins/
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kaya nga ako nagtataka sa kaliwa na puro si marcos ang pinagdidiskitahan pagdating sa hr violations samantalang mas malala talaga sa ilalim ni Cory (mas marami ayon sa AI at dagdag pa nga ang mga asasinasyon tulad ni Leandro Alejandro, atbp.). tapos, itong si gloria dorobo, sila mismo ay kasama sa nagluklok dito.
"The Marcos regime was overthrown in 1986. But despite a brief respite, the killings and other human rights violations — illegal arrest and detention as well as disappearances and torture — resumed almost immediately. During Corazon Aquino’s term the killings in the countryside continued. In addition, however, the Aquino administration was also characterized by ambushes on and the assassination of presumed leftist leaders in the cities, including Manila.
The killings did not stop in the succeeding administrations of Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada, and in fact escalated to martial law levels during the nine years that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was in power."
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