Cases of state violence against women mount
Already there are 356 political detainees in the country, with 78 of
them having been arrested on the orders of the Aquino administration’s
armed and judicial forces. Almost half or 35 of them are women. Also
153 women have already fallen victim to extrajudicial killings since
2001, with six of them killed under the watch of the Benigno Aquino III
administration.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com
The Center for Women’s Research has once more taken up the cudgels
for women political detainees and women victims of political repression
and other forms of human rights violations.
According to the institution, 153 women have already fallen victim
to extrajudicial killings since 2001, with six of them killed under the
watch of the Benigno Aquino III administration.
Already there are 356 political detainees in the country, with 78 of
them having been arrested on the orders of the Aquino administration’s
armed and judicial forces. Almost half or 35 of them are women.
According to the CWR, women political prisoners suffer twice the violence experienced by their male counterparts.
“Women prisoners are more vulnerable to intimidation, sexual harassment
and abuse, as well as torture. Former political prisoner Angie Ipong and
the women members of the Morong 43 can attest to this,” it said.
A particularly harrowing case
Ipong’s case is particularly harrowing because those who arrested and
detained her showed no compunction against violating her rights
regardless of her sex and age. She was 60 years old when she was
arrested without a warrant by armed men in Anastacia Mission
Village, Lumbayao, Aloran, Misamis Occidental on March 2005 by
Criminal Investigation Detection Group (CIDG) members..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/12/15/cases-of-state-violence-against-women-mount/
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hanggang hindi natin binabalikan ang turo ukol sa maghandang asal at pamumuhay ng katipunan, asal mabait.pa.ang.hayop o pananapak sa hindi dilaw, hindi tuta.ng.kalbong agila lamang ang mamayani sa ating bayan. pati naman matandang babae, hindi na pinatawad ng militar na turuan ng dmnyong terorista amerika....
"Ipong’s case is particularly harrowing because those who arrested and detained her showed no compunction against violating her rights regardless of her sex and age. She was 60 years old when she was arrested without a warrant by armed men in Anastacia Mission Village, Lumbayao, Aloran, Misamis Occidental on March 2005 by Criminal Investigation Detection Group (CIDG) members.
"She was brought to the bunker of the First Infantry (Tabak) Division at Pulacan, Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur, held incommunicado, denied access to her relatives and counsel and blindfolded every now and then. She was continuously interrogated and physically abused while blindfolded. To protest her arrest and ill-treatment, she went on a hunger strike."
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