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BREAK THE SILENCE!
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THIS is the statement of the
Congress of Teachers/Educators
for Nationalism and Democracy-UP
Diliman on the deaths of young men
Kian Loyd delos Santos, Carl Angelo
Arnaiz, Reynaldo “Kulot” de Guzman,
and ObilloBay-ao. On Thursday,
another youth, Vaughn Carl M. Dican of
Baguio City was also found dead.
“What good are beautiful highways
and airports, beautiful buildings full of
spacious apartments, if they are only
put together with the blood of the poor,
who are not going to enjoy them?” –
Blessed Bishop Oscar Romero, July 15,
1979
The members of CONTEND UP
Diliman express our indignation over
the recent killings of Obillo Bay-ao, Carl Bay-ao, recently killed by a notorious
Angelo Arnaiz, Reynaldo de Guzman,
and Kian delos Santos. Duterte’s war
2 Pampanga cops in drug bust
accused of robbery-extortion
CAMP Olivas, Pampanga – Two
policemen including a commissioned
police officer have been accused
of robbery-extortion for allegedly
demanding P30,000 in exchange for
settling an illegal drugs case.
Chief Supt. Amador Corpuz, director
of Central Luzon PNP, also ordered the
investigation and the filing of criminal
and administrative charges against
Senior Inspector Philipp Pelle and SPO1
Jessie Lopez, both detailed at Magalang,
Pampanga police station.
“The filing of criminal charges,
disciplining and dismissing erring police
personnel only shows that the PNP is
sincere in its campaign against bad
eggs in the police force, and that the
rule of law does not distinguish rank,
position or popularity,” said Corpuz in
a statement.
Corpuz described their action as
“a clear manifestation of our keen
determination to remove misfits among
the ranks of our organization.” He said
that a case for Violation of Article 293
of the Revised Penal Code (Robbery
Extortion) is being readied against them.
Senior Supt. Joel Consulta, director
on drugs has already taken a heavy
toll: the lives of 13,000 Filipinos, most
of them poor. The blood of innocent
children and youth is pooling on the
streets, and the perpetrators of these
crimes go unpunished, in the name of
supposedly protecting the future of our
nation.
We take special case for Carl Arnaiz,
a former UP student who dropped from
our University because of academic and
financial pressure. Our society could
not even provide free education for
Carl and other poor students, and now
they are the targets of the US-Duterte
war on drugs. And because UP is the
second home of the Lumad resistance,
we are equally pained by the death
of 19-year-old Lumad student Obillo
paramilitary force in Davao del Norte,
of the Pampanga Provincial Police
Office (PPO), said Lopez was initially
collared by plainclothes policemen in
an entrapment at Barangay San Nicolas
ll in Magalang town Tuesday.
Lopez went to the residence of
Maricar Tapnio Canlapan, 38, wife
of a suspected illegal drugs trafficker
earlier arrested during a buy bust. The
policeman demanded P30,000 from
Canlapan in exchange for a settlement.
Unknown to Lopez, Canlapan
sought the help of the Provincial Public
Safety Company which planned the
entrapment.
Consulta said Lopez was caught red-
handed receiving marked money from
the victim. He disarmed the policeman
and seized two units of cellular phones
shortly after the entrapment.
Pelle eluded arrest and is now the
subject of a manhunt by the police.
Because of the incident, Corpuz
ordered the relief of Superintendent
Suptal Cabauatan, Magalang police
chief, while the robbery extortion
case against Pelle and Lopez is under
investigation. n Jess Malabanan, InterAksyon
| September 13, 2017, 4:44 PM
NEWS
while he was on his way home from his
family’s fields. He is a victim amidst the Kian Lloyd delos Santos, Carl Angelo Arnaiz, Reynaldo de Guzman
relentless plunder of natural resources,
disguised as a “war on terror” and a war
on insurgency blessed and furthered
by the imperial US. Even as we shout
the names of these young boys in our
demand for justice, we remember that
they are but a few in the list of children
murdered by the regime, which has also
made orphans out of so many.
Our law enforcement can only target
poor drug users, Lumad students, and
penniless minors who cannot defend
themselves against the fangs of the
fascist government.
As teachers, we stand as the second
parents of our students. We denounce a
government that keeps defending itself
by claiming these murders are either
“exceptions” or “collateral damage.”
When so many are killed, the exception
becomes the norm. Even if one child is
murdered by the state, we should raise
the fury of hell! In the face of murders
of the innocent, our silence becomes
the normal state of affairs. We become
numb and indifferent to injustice, and
murder becomes a way of life.
As teachers, we express our fears
that our streets are not safe for our
students anymore. Ironically, we have
come to fear law enforcers themselves.
Even our schools have been illegally
subjected to drug testing. This is not
simply a problem of privacy and
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MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte
turned down Senator Antonio Trillanes
IV’s dare to sign a bank secrecy waiver
so both of them could prove who was
keeping hidden wealth in accounts.
At the same time, however, Duterte,
who claimed he had the goods on
Trillanes and would disclose the details
of the lawmaker’s alleged accounts,
including those supposedly in overseas
File photos of Sen. Antonio
Trillanes IV and President
Rodrigo Duterte
September 2017 / Fortnightly – No. 18 • UK & Europe Edition
confidentiality—it makes apparent
the militarization, regulation, and
surveillance creeping into academic
communities.
As educators, we condemn the
public hypocrisy of President Duterte,
who commiserates with families of the
victims while unleashing his fascist fury
on the urban poor communities and
the minorities. Deflecting responsibility
for these deaths does not absolve the
President of his guilt. His actuations and
speeches in public have emboldened
law enforcers to ruthlessly violate the
human rights of civilians, disregarding
democratic processes and institutions.
If the President sincerely believes that
injustice has transpired, he should stop
his war on drugs. He has to end martial
law in Mindanao! He has to address
banks, admitted he might not be able to do
so after all despite the waiver signed by the
senator.
“If Trillanes wants to find something (at)
fault with me tell him, ‘Go somewhere else
and fly a kite.’ In the same manner that if he knew of Trillanes’ supposed accounts.
want(s) to get evidence, do not get it from
my mouth. You must be stupid, even if it is
true or false,” Duterte said.
“Why would I give you the
the real causes of drug use: economic
and social crises. He has to make
accountable all government agents who
have used violence against the poor
youth and displaced Lumad students.
The President cannot pretend to be
untainted by this spate of killings. He
is ultimately responsible, as the “father”
of the nation, and the chief of his police
and armed forces, for the malevolent
state of affairs we are under now.
Stop the killings now!
End state impunity!
Justice for all the human rights
victims of the US-Duterte regime!
Down with state fascism!
No to Duterte’s fascist war on drugs!
Address the economic and social
roots of the drug problems! n Contend-UP
Diliman | September 8, 2017, 10:48 AM
pleasure? Kung gusto siyang maghanap, ‘di
maghanap siya. Bakit niya ako damayin (If
he wants to look for evidence, let him
look. Why drag me into it),” he added,
pointing out that he had to “go to lengths”
to convince “contacts” to share what they
He also called the waiver signed by
Trillanes “useless” claiming the senator
maintained “joint accounts” with Chinese
partners whose agreement would also need
to be secured before the accounts could be
opened to scrutiny.
“So even if he (Trillanes) signs a
waiver, if the co-signer does not, walang
mangyari niyan(nothing will happen). And
the bank would never, never name who is
the partner. Eh nakuha lang namin ‘yan
sa (Well, we just got that information
from)—well, a foreign government supplied
that,” he added.
Despite this, he said he would make the
contents of Trillanes’ supposed accounts
public “in a few days” because “it is enough
that the people know that he has so many
bank accounts.” n Maricel Halili, News5 |
September 13, 2017, 2:29 PM