Demanding justice for

Pepe Manegneg and Albert Terredaño

on their death anniversaries

Candon City and Bangued

Nov.28, 2006    Posted Jan. 31, 2007

On Nov 29, activists from Cordillera, Ilocos and Abra commemorated the 1st death anniversary of Jose "Pepe" Manegdeg and Albert Teredano. An ecumenical service was held at the plaza of Candon in Ilocos Sur for Pepe. Afterwards, the participants proceeded to where Pepe was killied at San Esteban where candles were lit. Then the caravan proceeded to Bangued, Abra wherein a forum and a rally were held to commemorate Abert's 1st death anniversary. (from a report by Lyn V. Ramo of Nordis Weekly)

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► No more wailing widows by Lyn V. Ramo/Nordis Weekly

► Kin, friends hold mass for Manegdeg, Terredaño by Arthur L. Allad-iw/ Nordis Weekly

► HR groups denounce killings and other HR violations by Rod Tajon/Nolrdis Weekly

► CHRA urges exhumation, autopsy of killed Abra peasant by Lyn V. Ramo/Dordis Weekly

To A Murderer Investigating Murder

          -Cheryl Daytec-Yañgot-

And so you created a commission to

look into the senseless deaths of  heroes

dispatched by the force of your might?

The grieving nation giggled at this one.

Did you hear the melancholic laughter?

Your concern mocks the pain of death.

It slanders the sorrow of the orphaned

It slurs the heartache of the widowed.

It burlesques the outrage of the nation.

You were the one who pulled the trigger.

Nakedly, you spattered fresh blood on

the unsullied walls of the churches and

the hospitals  and the homes  and the

schools and the faces of the innocent.

You did it once and again and again.

Your power's conscience is frozen.

The edifice of truth shudders from the

white tales squirting from your tongue.

Even the ground on which the bodies

have fallen wince from the force of the

butchery by  your bloodstained hands.

Even the gun you exploited to display

your dearth of respect for life shudders

from the despicability  of your vice.

Even the lady of justice has doffed her

blindfold to let the mighty stream of

her sorrow cascade; the magnitude of

your crime has slowed down her grind.

And you now investigate your own crime?

I  beg of you: Please stop this madness!

Defile not a corpse with crocodile tears!

Polish not the  nation's lesions with salt!

May God forgive you; the nation cannot!

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Prosecute the real enemies of the peole! - statement of the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance on the report of the Melo Coimmision

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Photos courtesy of Nordis Weekly)

Photos show members of the International Fact Finding Mission in Abra last Nov 18-19, 2006.