Filipino migrants in Korea

in signature campaign to stop the killings

Hyewadong, Seoul

Sept. 20, 2006

The KASAMMAKO or Katipunan ng mga Samahan ng Migranteng  Manggagawa sa Korea, held a signature campaign to gather support from Filipino Migrants in Korea for  the continuing campaign to “Stop Extra-judicial killings in the Philippines.

News release:
April 16, 2007
Seoul Korea

(April 16, 2007, Hyewadong, Seoul) The KASAMMAKO or Katipunan ng mga Samahan ng Migranteng  Manggagawa sa Korea, held a signature campaign to gather support from Filipino Migrants in Korea on the continuing campaign to “Stop Extra-judicial killings in the Philippines.

The KASAMAKo were joined with different Korean NGOs including the Korea House for International Solidarity (KHIS), MINBYUN  (Lawyers NGO), Imagination for international Solidarity (IFIS), Korea Federation of Environment Movement. Independent media group also attended the activity.

The groups set up a signature booth near the Hyewadong church in Seoul and asked Filipinos and Koreans to sign postcards bearing the Stop the Killing calls. The postcards will be sent to the Malacanang. The objective of the signature and postcards signing campaign is to show the Malacanang
government that many Filipinos and Koreans are very much concerned of the brazen killings and human rights violations in the Philippines under the Arroyo regime

According to the group's representatives, Filipinos and Koreans showed overwhelming support to the campaign as we have initially gathered more than 200 signed postcards. We even received invitations from other churhes and communities to hold similar activities in their areas.

There are more than 850 activists and journalists since 2001 believed to be the handywok of the mlitary under the direction General Palaparan and under the Military Oplan Bantay Laya approved by Arroyo.

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I am an innocent man being denied my liberty and rights. By refusing to release me, the Macapagal-Arroyo adminisration daily affirms its reputation as a politically repressive government.

What has been done to me and what continues to be done against me is political repression, an act of a burgeoning dictatorship. It is my hope that Filipinos as well as the rest of the international community will be made aware of what is being done to me and see it as an attack against civil liberties and political rights in the country.

-- April 20, 2007