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US. Rep. Susan Wild (Pennsylvania, 7th District) again filed the Philippine Human Rights Act (PHRA) before the US House earlier this month in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Massacre.
Rights alliance Karapatan, in a statement on Tuesday, expressed indignation that two years since the Bloody Sunday, “none of the perpetrators of these attacks has been held to account.”
Department of Justice Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors were asked to reverse their ruling that dismissed the murder complaint filed against 17 policemen for the death of labor leader Emmanuel “Manny” Asuncion during the so-called “Bloody Sunday” killings in Southern Tagalog provinces on
Under Duterte, red-tagging is used as a weapon to silence dissent and as justification for human rights abuses.
The murder of nine activists in simultaneous police raids in March followed the orders of President Duterte, who told the military to “Kill them! Don’t mind human rights!”