Military accused of torturing medical personnel, Military says they're NPA Options

[Diego_Vega]

For some reason, I just don't think this will raise much of a ruckus here in the Philippines. People are more concerned about the personal life of some celebrity. Low wages, lousy working conditions, and the military thinks they can just come along and torture and humiliate you, no wonder so many of our medical professionals would prefer working abroad.

Philippine Daily Inquirer

[AK-47]

For some reason, I just don't think this will raise much of a ruckus here in the Philippines. People are more concerned about the personal life of some celebrity. Low wages, lousy working conditions, and the military thinks they can just come along and torture and humiliate you, no wonder so many of our medical professionals would prefer working abroad.

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Supposedely the AFP found Bayan Muna election material in that resort. This is again an attempt by the administration to harass Bayan Muna by linking it to the NPA in preparation for the coming election. Good thing they were professionals, if they were class 'E-D' citizens like factory workers or rural poor perhaps half of them would have disapeared.
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[RedBagani]

Is this sufficient reason to teach FMA to our military?

Maybe some outstanding FMA teacher can teach our soldiers & policemen not to be so abusive & corrupt.

If a Filipino can't do it, we can always import a foreigner.

[AK-47]

Maybe some outstanding FMA teacher can teach our soldiers & policemen not to be so abusive & corrupt.

Or they could corrupt their teacher.

[AK-47]

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[Raul]

Maybe some outstanding FMA teacher can teach our soldiers & policemen not to be so abusive & corrupt.

Or they could corrupt their teacher.

Or..

[AK-47]

Maybe some outstanding FMA teacher can teach our soldiers & policemen not to be so abusive & corrupt.

Or they could corrupt their teacher.

Or..

.....

[burungkol]

For some reason, I just don't think this will raise much of a ruckus here in the Philippines. People are more concerned about the personal life of some celebrity. Low wages, lousy working conditions, and the military thinks they can just come along and torture and humiliate you, no wonder so many of our medical professionals would prefer working abroad.

Philippine Daily Inquirer

so sad... yeah, i'd rather leave.

[Sitbatan]

"Authorities are not an accident. They were specifically created by intelligent people to CONTROL YOU!" pg15 Chapter 3 Authority

The End Of All Evil
by Jeremy Locke, ebook

http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=MMFMtB...;q=&f=false

[Diego_Vega]

As always, an educated perspective from Michael Tan

Raid!

Maybe the medical profession should take down names of the torturers and then deny them and their families medical attention if and when they ever need it.

[Mangtas]

<H1 align=center>Here are some interesing prints...</H1><H1 align=center>[/font] </H1><H1 align=center>Suppression of Human Rights</H1><H4 align=center>excerpted from the book</H4><H1 align=center>Tinderbox</H1><H2 align=center>U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism</H2><H3 align=center>by Stephen Zunes</H3><H4 align=center>Common Courage Press, 2003, paper</H4>


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Human Rights: Transforming a Moral Issue into a Political Tool

"Human rights violations by foreign governments and their lack of democratic institutions generally get the most attention in the United States when a given administration has called attention to them in order o mobilize domestic and international opinion against a regime the U.S. government opposes. However, every administration in recent years has aIso had to address, at least to some degree, the less expedient phenomenon of responding to public and Congressional pressure regarding the lack of democracy and human rights in allied countries. Oftentimes, such official responses would constitute little more than lip service and damage control, but-since at least the 1970s-it has been difficult to ignore completely. Most of the pressure has stemmed from grassroots movements, ;sometimes amplified by sympathetic segments of the media and members of congress. The resulting debates have covered world regions ranging from East and Southeast Asia, to Eastern Europe, to Latin America and to Africa, and have been particularly vehement regarding regimes that directly receive arms and economic assistance from the U.S. government.

Yet despite this surge in debate over human rights policy, the very -region that receives the largest amount of American arms and aid has been notably absent from the public debate: the Middle East. Not only has there been mostly silence from traditional human rights advocates in Congress, there has not been much in the way of grassroots pressure, either. This relatively docile response is not because the problem is small. A large majority of countries in that region lack democratic institutions and engage in a consistent pattern of gross and systematic human rights violations. In addition, three major recipients of U.S. aid-Morocco, Israel and Turkey-have conquered all or parts of neighboring countries by force, engaged in ethnic cleansing, and continue to subjugate the population of these occupied territories in defiance of the Geneva Convention and the United Nations.

Despite the poor human rights situation in the Middle East, with the exception of certain intellectual circles and the most committed human rights activists, there has been little effort among American activists to support pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. These struggles have not captured the imagination of the grassroots organizations in recent decades to the extent of human rights movements in Latin America, southern Africa, the Philippines, or even East Timor. While established human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have generally given a proportional amount of attention to human rights abuses in the Middle East, it has not resulted in the same level of popular activism as have similar movements regarding other parts of the world. This gives the United States little incentive to change its policy of supporting repressive governments. "

[AK-47]

Military defies the Supreme Court on the detainees:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadl...defies-SC-on-43