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Press
Statement
09 December 2007
For reference: Dolores T. Balladares
Chairperson
Tel. No. 97472986
“No Justice, No Human Rights”
Justice and human rights have no place
under the Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo
regime
For Filipino migrant workers in Hong Kong, there can be no justice and
respect for human rights of the Filipino people with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
in power.
We commemorate the December 10 International Human Rights Day with grief
and indignation.
While the world remembers the struggle for human rights, we grieve for the
887 victims of extrajudicial killings and 186 victims of enforced
disappearances in the Philippines. We grieve for those unjustly detained
and for the thousands more men, women and children whose lives have been
shattered by the intense Philippine military operations.
More importantly, we stand indignant against the denial of justice to the
victims and worse, the continued proliferation of grave human rights
abuses. We stand against the Human Security Act of 2007 and other
repressive laws of GMA.
The recent fact-finding mission initiated by the HK Campaign for the
Advancement of Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines (HKCAHRPP)
revealed that no significant move has been done by the government to
resolve cases of extrajudicial killings and much less for enforced
disappearances.
Instead of addressing the international clamor to stop the killings, the
GMA government and its machinery are busily deflecting responsibility and
playing with numbers to discredit human rights organizations as well as
project that the issue is not as serious as reported.
However, even Prof. Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial,
Summary and Arbitrary Executions on his report has pointed out to the
military as the perpetrators of human rights abuses. Prof. Alston himself
have been called names and efforts were done by government spindoctors to
belie his solid findings.
The GMA government is guilty of human rights violations and no amount of
media blitz, whitewashed reports, and numerous empty “human rights
committees” and task forces that it creates can cover the terror that her
government has heaped upon the Filipino people.
No content with trampling the rights of our comptatriots back home,
Filipino migrant workers also suffer from the inutility of the government
in protecting our rights.
The cases of Jocelyn Dulnuan – murdered OFW in Canada – and Marilou
Ranario – an OFW facing the death penalty in Kuwait – are but just two of
the numerous overseas Filipino workers who have been neglected by the
government. Already victimized by poverty and lack of job opportunities in
the Philippines, Dulnuan and Ranario still had to suffer the criminal
irresponsibility of GMA.
As long as GMA is in power and her lackeys ran the government in the
Philippines and abroad, no justice or human rights can be had by the
Filipino people inside and outside the country.
While we stand in grief and indignation, we also stand determined.
GMA will have her day of reckoning. We Filipinos in Hong Kong shall
tirelessly work with our fellows back in the Philippines in intensfying
the campaign for her immediate ouster from office.
We shall work for no less.
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The
Secretariat
United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-MIGRANTE-HK)
2/F., New Hall, St. John's Cathedral,
4 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong SAR
Tel : (852) 3156-2447 Fax : (852) 2526-2894
E-mail:
secretariat@unifil.org.hk
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* The
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reflect the view of The Dean and the Council of St. John's Cathedral
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