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Press Statement: Punish Palparan!
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Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:40:43 -0700
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The International Coalition for Human
Rights in the Philippines-Rome, Italy (ICHRP-Rome) joins the family and friends
and human rights fighters in celebrating the recent arrest of war criminal
retired general Jovito Palparan. Indeed, it was the unrelenting efforts of
the families, friends and human rights fighters that led to the arrest of the
fugitive war criminal.
Some of the families of the victims
of Palparan's barbaric but cowardly crimes have fled to Europe to escape
Palparan's and his AFP confreres' murderous rampage. Following the US
“counterinsurgency” prescription of destroying the armed revolutionary
movement, Palparan cowardly vented his ire for his failure to destroy the armed
guerrilla movement on unarmed civilians – student activists, human rights
workers, peasant leaders, etc - whom he falsely accused of being members
of the New People’s Army.
Many of the victims who were executed
or disappeared by Palparan were bread winners whose families were
deprived by Palparan not only of their life-support but of the very lives of
their loved ones. Some have become migrant domestic workers in Europe.
We do not put much trust in the
current administration's justice system which continues to coddle human rights
violators among its ranks and perpetrate the culture of impunity with the
number of victims of extrajudicial killings increasing under the Aquino
government.
We would rather rely on the
continuous pressure of the human rights community, and the unrelenting efforts
of the families of Palparan's victims such as the families of Karen Empeno and
Sherlyn Cadapan, and his other victims in Mindoro and Central Luzon, to seek
justice and end impunity.
The families and friends of the
victims of Palparan in Europe will continue to fight for justice until it is
achieved with the eventual punishment not only of this coward war criminal
Palparan, but also his handlers such as Gloria Arroyo, another war criminal,
and their minions and hired thugs in the AFP.
We will bring the fight for justice
in the international community, and call for an international
war crimes tribunal, to include for prosecution not only the crimes
of the previous administration under which Palparan served, but also the Aquino
administration and its US-funded "Oplan Bayanihan", which continues
with the extrajudicial killings, illegal arrests and disappearances.
ICHRP-Rome, Italy
13 August 2014
Reference:
Buboy Salle
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