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ystem than ever before along with rampant vote buying disturbing levels of state and military orchestrated red tagging of candidates and parties including numerous incidents of deadly violence said ms de laveleye iom bulletins recorded that the main opposition candidate leni robredo was strenuously red tagged another presidential candidate leody de guzman was the victim of a strafing attack at a campaign rally in mindanao many campaign activists were arrested on false charges large numbers of voters were unable to cast their ballots vote buying was widespread many found their names were no longer on the voter roll and many had to trust that election officials would later put their marked ballot paper through a vote counting machine vcm because of the breakdown of the voting machines the may 9 election did not meet the standard of free and fair because voters were denied access to reliable information access to the voting places without intimidation and a credible vote counting system the iom reported election related violations of human rights from march 15 noting the first political killings related to the elections took place in sorsogon bicol region on january 15 the elections took place in the most repressive atmosphere seen since the time of dictator ferdinand marcos the duterte government has orchestrated state terror marshalling the entire machinery of the state including the judiciary the military and police the departments of education social welfare and local government in a war on dissent which continued through the entirety of the election campaign the results of the election are a worst case scenario for the filipino people and for the international community the president elect ferdinand bongbong marcos jr says that his father s legacy of dictatorship were golden years marcos sr s 14 year military dictatorship ended in the 1986 people power uprising the marcos family is estimated to have stolen more than us 10 billion from the philippines of which only a small portion was ever recovered bongbong and running mate vice president elect sara duterte represent a political marriage of the families of the worst human rights violators in philippine history our concern is that the declared marcos duterte victory will continue to provide legal and legislative cover for past and future human rights violations economic plunder and crimes against humanity said iom commissioner rev dr prof chris ferguson the election is both a tragedy and farce of epic shakespearean proportions a farce in that the electoral charade was based on a sea of disinformation disenfranchisement and intimidation of large swathes of the voting public at the same time a tragedy in that the former dictator s son and entire family fortune is based on his parents theft of billions of dollars from the filipino people and this is seen as the solution as opposed to the problem for a country mired in poverty and decades of brutal military control said rev ferguson the priority now for the international community should be intensified international efforts to hold the outgoing duterte team accountable for its abysmal human rights record and to increase monitoring of the incoming marcos administration this work is underway at the international criminal court and in the united nations human rights council processes and can be pursued in national jurisdictions with magnitsky style laws there should be no hint of a blind eye for continued human rights violations under marcos jr concluded rev ferguson sharan burrow general secretary international trade union confederation ituc canon barry naylor chrp uk séverine de laveleye ecolo groen deputy belgium parliament lee rhiannon former australian senator rev michael yoshii ichrp global council usa chris ferguson former secretary general world communion of reformed churches xavier cotillas romero president catalan association for peace posted by ochrp may 19 2022 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on philippine elections a past revisited ochrp statement on trumped up case against cpa chairperson windel bolinget ottawa canada the ontario committee for human rights in the philippines ochrp condemns the latest attack by the duterte government on indigenous leader windel bolinget chairperson of the cordillera people s alliance cpa on january 11 2020 an arrest warrant related to a fabricated murder charge was filed against mr bolinget accusing him and 9 others of killing garito malibato on march 22 2018 in kapalong davao del norte according to the cpa windel has never been there his home community located over 1600 kilometers away on march 30 2018 in an interview with local newspaper davao today garito s older brother and tribal chieftain datu delio malibato alleged that the 23 year old motorcycle driver was killed by members of the paramilitary group alamara according to human rights watch the alamara have been committing violence against and terrorizing villages of indigenous peoples in the region since 2014 while the military does nothing the alternative news organization bulatlat com reported that the paramilitary group is directly linked to the armed forces of the philippines afp in an effort to create an indigenous vigilante counter insurgency unit in davao city as a divide and rule tactic bolinget has been targeted as a long time environmental and human rights activist and indigenous land defender bolinget belongs to the kankanaey and bontok indigenous peoples in mountain province to date he served the cpa for 23 years as education commission officer secretary general and now chairperson he has long been known as an indigenous activist strongly committed to his work as a result bolinget has been under constant harassment and surveillance by state forces such as the afp and the philippine national police pnp this trumped up case is yet another attempt to silence him and is a part of the systematic attacks of the duterte regime against political dissenters and human rights activists under duterte s executive order 70 which has led the afp and pnp to resort to red tagging labeling groups or individuals as communists or terrorists smear campaigns paid social media trolling and now trumped up murder charges against indigenous activists ochrp ottawa condemns these actions in the strongest possible terms and makes the following calls drop the trumped up case against windel bolinget stop the manhunt stop the attacks against the cpa junk executive order 70 safety and access to justice for windel justice for garito malibato defendwindel defendcpa defendcordillera posted by ochrp january 14 2021 january 14 2021 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on ochrp statement on trumped up case against cpa chairperson windel bolinget anniversary of martial law under marcos ottawa canada today the ontario committee for human rights in the philippines ochrp is marking the 48th anniversary of the declaration of martial law in the philippines in 1972 the dictator ferdinand marcos placed the country under martial law plunging philippine democracy into darkness for 14 years he took control over the entire government dissolved congress and changed the constitution so he could rule without limits what is martial law it means the army controls the government marcos increased the size of the military gave them the power to arrest and indefinitely detain people without due process he immediately jailed his political opponents congressmembers workers students farmers clergy and journalists marcos closed down newspapers and television networks information was censored and filipinos were placed in the dark about their government s actions thousands were killed and tens of thousands were arrested and tortured the military could arrest someone without a warrant and jail them for as long as they liked the dictator s family became rich while workers everywhere in the philippines became poor we remember this day because philippine democracy is again under threat this time by rodrigo duterte who has again empowered the police and military to arrest people without due process and to kill thousands with impunity including human rights defenders indigenous peoples lawyers trade unionists and the poor journalists have been arrested and murdered and established media organizations have either been forced to close or are under constant threat and harassment he funds marketing companies to flood social media with propaganda and pays trolls to send death threats to critics and human rights defenders online duterte signed a bill giving him and his cronies the power to designate anyone they don t like as a terrorist allowing them to wiretap private conversations detain people without a warrant and try suspects in kangaroo courts why should canadians care about this filipino canadians are one of the largest asian communities in canada duterte s actions directly affect them and their families and so everything possible must be done to keep them safe canada has mining and business interests in the philippines where are their human rights interests why does foreign minister champagne refuse to denounce these attacks on democracy we must join the un in condemning these human rights abuses so again why should we care paraphrasing dr martin luther king jr a threat to democracy anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere we are living in an age of democratic decay leaders like trump modi bolsonaro and duterte all flout the law attack their political enemies and spread disinformation while trying to control their populations through force essentially using their democracies to kill their own people some of our so called leaders are taking a peek and flirting with these ideas maybe they think they can get away with it while no one is watching but guess what we are all watching authoritarians seem to forget that dictators have a shelf life marcos thought he had complete control but he underestimated the people power revolution filipinos took to the streets demonstrating and rebelling against the regime significant international pressure forced the regime to acknowledge their human rights abuses they forced the regime to hold elections what happened to marcos the dictator his excellency as he liked to be called ran away to hawaii in 1986 years of hard work and organizing by filipinos and their international allies overturned marcos and his martial law we remember this day because today we are in similar conditions with yet another bloodthirsty authoritarian in the philippines this time with a social media following and a phony drug war for the sake of our friends our loved ones our democracies and for those we have not met we look at this day and say never again posted by ochrp september 23 2020 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on anniversary of martial law under marcos statement condemning the pardon of murderer joseph scott pemberton ochrp condemns another of dutete s attacks on due process and the criminal justice in the phiilippines while on the on hand duterte uses the criminal justice system of the philippines to imprison the innocent on the other he uses his power as president to function as an american puppet pardoning us service man involved in murdering transgendered filipino jennifer laude in 2014 lance corporal joseph scott pemberton an anti tank missile operator from new bedford massachusetts was one of thousands of us and philippine military personnel who participated in annual joint military exercises in the philippines in 2014 pemberton and a group of other marines met laude and her friends at a bar in olongapo after the completion of the balikatan military excercises laude was later found dead in a motel room where witnesses said she and pemberton had checked in a witness told investigators that pemberton had admitted he had choked laude to death after discovering she was transgender pemberton was subsequently convicted after intense public outrage put political pressure on the philippine government for justice his pardon by rodrigo duterte reflects the continued subservience of the philippine president to us control furthermore he intentionally chose a marginalized victim to rob of justice likely hoping for apathy about anti trans hate crime to limit public outcry let us prove him wrong posted by ochrp september 11 2020 september 11 2020 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on statement condemning the pardon of murderer joseph scott pemberton police terrorist gallery targets activists in davao jul 24 2020 mara s genotiva govt red tagging of davao political activists source karapatan davao city philippines progressive groups cried foul over posters spreading in different areas of the city this week that tagged their leaders as terrorists as the controversial anti terrorism act ata takes effect this week printed on top of the poster is wanted with photos of various prominent activist leaders in the region tagging them as terrorist recruiter the posters bear no signatories the leaders are carlo olalo romelito pablo and pj dizong from the labor center kilusang mayo uno southern mindanao region cora espinoza gabriela smr vice chairperson and a former commissioner of the philippine commission on women may ann sapar of gabriela smr tony salubre kilusang magbubukid ng pilipinas smr spokesperson jong monzon pasaka secretary general pila barredo union secretary of alliance of concerned teachers davao region and jay apiag karapatan smr secretar general the regional chapters of gabriela kilusang mayo uno and karapatan issued statements of condemnation on this propaganda jay apiag said in a statement that the red tagging and terror tagging tactics against activists are nothing new but the anti terror law puts their lives at risk with this recent terror tagging of activists and me as a rights champion i am feeling a sense of danger in my security as i usually attend court hearings of several political prisoners and leading quick response teams whenever there are reported cases of rights abuses in various communities we serve said apiag in a message sent to davao today the group said the law will only embolden authorities to commit more human rights violations with more impunity under the ata suspected individuals can be arrested without a court warrant and they can be detained for a maximum of 24 days without charges being filed against them apiag said that the intensified terror tagging on the onset of the implementation of ata refutes the claims of officials that activists and their right to expression and advocacies are safeguarded what this show is the clear purpose of the law and that is to silence critics and dissenters and even citizens who want to raise their valid complaints to the government it does send a warning but we are not backing off we will not choose silence apiag added kilusang mayo uno smr secretary general carlo olalo slammed the incident as a desperate act of the state to quell the growing dissent of 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