Baguio artists unite vs drug killings

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:23:56 +0000

Baguio artists unite vs drug killings

BAGUIO CITY — Actor Mae Paner, better known as Juana Change, delivered a compelling performance of the monologues “Tao Po” that was greeted with a standing ovation at the University of the Cordilleras (UC) Theater on Saturday.

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Kidlat Tahimik, Bencab sign manifesto vs extrajudicial killings

Credit to Author: ryanl| Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 08:11:48 +0000

Kidlat Tahimik, Bencab sign manifesto vs extrajudicial killings

BAGUIO CITY — National Artists Bencab (Ben Cabrera) and Kidlat Tahimik signed a manifesto on Friday night (Feb. 8) condemning extrajudicial killings that have been attributed to the Duterte administration’s “war on drugs.”

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Palace: Slain ex-mayor’s fate to befall ‘narcopols’

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:30:59 +0000

Malacañang on Sunday warned officials on the government’s “narcolist” that they might suffer the same fate as a former Maguindanao mayor who was killed last week after allegedly resisting arrest.

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‘Drug war toll shows admin’s low regard for human rights’

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 21:22:01 +0000

People should stop accepting the government’s claim that the victims in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs were killed because they had fought back against law enforcers

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Bishop’s book draws inspiration from Kian

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 21:32:00 +0000

Bishop’s book draws inspiration from Kian

Extrajudicial killings, whose victims included Kian Lloyd delos Santos, a teen from his diocese, moved Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David to put together stories about hope for the third book in his Gospel series.

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‘Feast of joy must also be feast of courage’

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 21:32:33 +0000

Catholic Church leaders have urged the faithful to avoid the “toxicity” of violence and falsehood and fight the “contagion of violence” as the country reels from a spate of killings amid a growing culture of impunity.

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Amid protests, Palace vows to pursue war on crime

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:22:59 +0000

Malacañang on Monday promised to pursue an unrelenting campaign against illegal drugs, crime, corruption, terrorism and insurgency as activists and militants took to the streets to demand an end to abuses against the people and a lawmaker called President Rodrigo Duterte the “biggest threat to human rights.”

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Bishop: Victims of drug war die ‘without valid grounds’

Bishop: Victims of drug war die ‘without valid grounds’

The head of the country’s biggest Catholic archdiocese expressed full support for a planned Senate probe into the mostly drug-related daily killings in the city and province that have already claimed 198 lives since February.

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Kids being killed in antidrug war unacceptable, says Unicef

Kids being killed in antidrug war unacceptable, says Unicef

Child rights advocates on Tuesday raised concerns over the growing number of minors being killed in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, one of the “worrying” situations of children in the Philippines who were being subjected to various forms of violence.

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