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APL & KONTRA WTO | 11.27.2009
APL dares gov’t to severely punish brains, perpetrators of Maguindanao massacre Alliance of Progressive Labor CONDEMNING even in the strongest possible terms yesterday’s slaughter of unarmed civilians in Maguindanao would not be enough as it was so gruesome and perpetrated by no less than the camp of a government official closely linked to Malacañang, and thus the masterminds and culprits must be meted out with the harshest possible punishment. The Alliance of Progressive Labor aired this demand as the authorities have already dug up in shallow graves more than 20 bullet-riddled bodies, including at least 13 media people, a number of whom are personally known and considered as friends by APL-Mindanao.
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Mariz Quimpo | 06.18.2009
25 June 2009 PHILIPPINES. It is quite common these days to read from the newspapers violence being perpetrated by the communist New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) that most Filipinos no longer care as long they are not the poor victims. People have become so passive that when rebels committed atrocities to civilians, none would make a fuss about it or chastise the perpetrators -- except for the families of the victims and the authorities. None would take the initiative to launch a crusade to seek justice. This is also what happened 20 years ago today. Very few would likely remember that on June 25, 1989, in a small village in Digos, Davao Del Sur, 39 people, many of them children, were mercilessly gunned-down by CPP-NPA rebels while they were attending a Sunday mass. Two of the victims, UCCP Pastor Ruben Ayap and his brother were beheaded. The motive: the village leaders refused to cooperate with the rebels. The CPP-NPA general command later admitted responsibility for the brutal killings and promised indemnification of the families of victims, which never happened. 
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