It is with rage that we greet the approval of Senate and Congress to extend the declaration of martial law in Mindanao up to December 31, 2017. With 261 votes in the affirmative versus 18 in the negative, both Houses have effectively exposed themselves as rubber stamps of Duterte’s militarist policy, especially for as long […]
Leaders from Kabataan Party-list and other youth groups yesterday laid down their 10-Point Youth and Student Demands to the Duterte Regime, Calling for Justice, Peace and Freedom during the State of the Youth Address (SOYA) this July 2017. Below are our demands to the administration: Lift and resist martial law! Hold accountable the US-AFP, the […]
We are dismayed with the effective cancellation of the peace talks and any backchannel talks thereof, in conjunction with Duterte’s second SONA and the President’s command to extend martial law to the end of December. This only further shows the Duterte regime’s insincerity with the peace talks. It shows that the government is resorting to […]
We vehemently denounce plans to extend martial law until the end of December this year, and possibly even beyond. This will only subject Mindanao and the nation to greater and graver human rights abuses and offensive operations against the Moro, Lumad and people of Mindanao. Numerous daily airstrikes and bombings have displaced Moros and other […]
Kabataan Partylist vehemently condemns proposals from House Speaker Alvarez to extend martial law up to 2022. “It is becoming more apparent that the ‘counter-terrorism’ bogey is merely a pretext for a nationwide all-out offensive against the people, that has long been floating around their heads. Even the AFP’s head honchos have admitted that the real […]
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