Kalibo, Aklan – SAVE MA. LUISA “LUING” POSA-DOMINADO and LEONILO “NILO” ABAO ARADO MOVEMENT successfully launched today through a lunch for a cause and a media forum on Anti-Terror Law at the Conference Hall of Kalibo Municipal Building, Kalibo, Aklan.
“Today, national data speaks of more than 900 hundred documented cases of extra-judicial killings, forcible disappearances and abductions of whom, most of the victims are from the ranks of militant and progressive organizations”. said Fernando Baldomero, BAYAN Muna- Aklan Provincial Chairperson and also a member of SELDA-Panay.
“What happened to Leeboy, Luing and Nilo is just but one of the various forms and of the continuously increasing numbers of cases of human rights violations under the Arroyo administration “. Baldomero added.
The shooting of Leeboy and the abduction of Luing and Nilo are the first cases of frustrated killing and forcible disappearance in the island of Panay, and we fear that this will set a precedence -- given that this regime, have already taken terrorism as policy of the state, as it is clearly manifested by the passage and full implementation of the Anti-Terror Law/Human Security Act of 2007, in the guise of its all-out-war policy against “terrorism”. Baldomero furthers.
Baldomero also added, “we come together to organize ourselves and establish SAVE in the province to preempt the possibility of the killings of the activists—our way of defending our rights as human”.
In resolution passed and approved by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Aklan, former SP Member Franklin L. Quimpo, the proponent of the said resolution, stressed that the frustrated killing and the abduction of activists regional leaders would also possibly happened in Aklan as claimed by leaders and members of progressive and militant organizations in the province.
“There are also reported cases of warrantless arrest and detention, surveillance and harassments to the council particularly, in the Committee on Human Rights chaired by Hon. Ramon Gelito. Quimpo said."The approval of the resolution thus, signifies our opposition and condemnation to all forms of human right violations and extra-judicial killings”.
“We are in a democratic country and it is sad to note that people who advocate on issues related to this concern with an opposite view to that of the government, are out-rightly declared as enemies of the state, and are usually become victims of illegal arrest and detention, and worst scenario, abducted and killed by the armed element of the state”. Quimpo added.
The launching is being joined in by lawyers, legislators, sectoral representatives, people from the academe, friends of Luing and Nilo in Aklan, local chapters of progressive party lists, militant organization under BAYAN-Aklan, individuals and media. ###
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