Pesante-USA slams Philippine CHR for Clearing the AFP on Mellisa Roxas Case |
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Communities - Civil Rights | |||
Written by Art Garcia | |||
Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:05 | |||
L os Angeles—The Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante-USA), human rights group based in the United States vehemently condemned the Commission of Human Rights ( The report, signed by Pesante is disappointed that Rosales a former political detainee and a victim of torture herself will clear the At the same time, the Roxas, an American citizen, complained that she and two of her contacts were abducted by masked men in Many Still Missing T he two men who were reportedly abducted with her did not join her suit. Juanito Carabeo, 51, was found to have eight arrest warrants including one for murder. Her other companion John Edward Jandoc, 16, did not surface at all. Pesante – Pesante said the P esante stated that the Palparan, now retired, had been accused by Philippine human rights activists of supporting shadowy “death squads” and secret detention centers in Two University of the Philippines coeds—Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño—among others, were abducted in Central Luzon in 2006 for suspected links to communist rebels and have not been heard of since. Two young peasants, Raymond and Reynaldo Manalo, who reportedly escaped a similar fate, told human-rights groups tales of horrific torture as they were moved around various military camps from Bulacan to Pesante puked at the military’s denial that they don’t have any knowledge of enforced disappearances and its reported clandestine torture chambers. # # #
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