COTABATO CITY – A Moro group here is calling for an end to extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, intense militarization and human rights violations as the Filipino people commemorates the 35 years of dreadful martial law days from deposed former president Ferdinand Marcos to detested president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
SUARA Bangsamoro express apprehension on the continuing patterns and mounting cases of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in the country which already scored 886 and 179 respectively since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed power in January 21, 2001.
Bai Ali Indayla, the group’s spokesperson in Cotabato City said, “The undeclared Martial Law of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo continues and the Moro people were not exempted to the escalating human rights violations. The recent skirmishes in Sulu and Basilan brought massive illegal arrests, abductions, tortures and evacuations of innocent Moro people.”
This year, the group documented several cases of government troops hitting civilians before and during their pursuit of July 10 ambuscade’s suspects. A 14 year old Abdulhakim Abilul was shot dead on January 18 by military in Kilometer 4, Kasambahan Village, Indanan, Sulu while on his way home from watching television in their neighbor’s house. “The military accused Abdulhakim as member of the Abu Sayyaf. His family was offered P15,000.00 to silence them,” Indayla articulated.
Another, Sarah Lumandong, 25, of sitio Marang, barangay Lower Sungkayot, Tipo-Tipo, Basilan was hit at her lower leg when the military fired mortars at her house as ground testing on August 8. The national dailies reported the incident as legitimate encounter between the military and the rebels in Tipo-Tipo.
On August 19, a report from the DSWD-ARMM stated that eight kids aged 4 to 16 years old from Indanan, Sulu were arrested and tortured along with their parents by the military’s Joint Special Operations Force.
The group criticized Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s order to government troops on August 13 to launch full offensives against rebels. “This only shows Arroyo’s callousness and cruelty. Our Muslim brothers are often the targets of her pointless war on terror,” the group emphasized.
“In her six-year reign, the Moro people had suffered so much. Arroyo continues to choose military might over genuine reforms. We cannot take another three more years of Marcosian rule – jampacked with corruption, anomalies and brutalities,” Indayla concluded.
SUARA Bangsamoro express apprehension on the continuing patterns and mounting cases of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in the country which already scored 886 and 179 respectively since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed power in January 21, 2001.
Bai Ali Indayla, the group’s spokesperson in Cotabato City said, “The undeclared Martial Law of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo continues and the Moro people were not exempted to the escalating human rights violations. The recent skirmishes in Sulu and Basilan brought massive illegal arrests, abductions, tortures and evacuations of innocent Moro people.”
This year, the group documented several cases of government troops hitting civilians before and during their pursuit of July 10 ambuscade’s suspects. A 14 year old Abdulhakim Abilul was shot dead on January 18 by military in Kilometer 4, Kasambahan Village, Indanan, Sulu while on his way home from watching television in their neighbor’s house. “The military accused Abdulhakim as member of the Abu Sayyaf. His family was offered P15,000.00 to silence them,” Indayla articulated.
Another, Sarah Lumandong, 25, of sitio Marang, barangay Lower Sungkayot, Tipo-Tipo, Basilan was hit at her lower leg when the military fired mortars at her house as ground testing on August 8. The national dailies reported the incident as legitimate encounter between the military and the rebels in Tipo-Tipo.
On August 19, a report from the DSWD-ARMM stated that eight kids aged 4 to 16 years old from Indanan, Sulu were arrested and tortured along with their parents by the military’s Joint Special Operations Force.
The group criticized Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s order to government troops on August 13 to launch full offensives against rebels. “This only shows Arroyo’s callousness and cruelty. Our Muslim brothers are often the targets of her pointless war on terror,” the group emphasized.
“In her six-year reign, the Moro people had suffered so much. Arroyo continues to choose military might over genuine reforms. We cannot take another three more years of Marcosian rule – jampacked with corruption, anomalies and brutalities,” Indayla concluded.
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