To them, it doesn’t feel like International Human Rights Day at all. Hundreds of peasants and indigenous peoples from the ManiLakbayan of Mindanao and those who joined the Lakbayan from Southern Luzon meet today at Recto-Morayta to march to Mendiola to protest what they called unabated extrajudicial killings and the climate of impunity over two years in the presidency of President Aquino. The march organizers said they will burn an effigy, a combined military tank and backhoe with a “Noynoy Aquino” figure at the steering wheel. The effigy symbolizes both the Oplan Bayanihan, Aquino’s counterinsurgency blueprint, and the devastating effects of mining by multinational corporations. Both, the protesters say, have caused them their lives and livelihood. With the Mindanao and Southern Tagalog marchers are members of people’s organizations of workers, urban poor, Church people, and human rights advocates led by Karapatan and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN). A program will be held in Mendiola with speeches from representatives from Mindanao and Southern Tagalog; cultural presentations and a ritual by several Datu from Mindanao tribes.....
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/50025/protest-march-to-mark--international-hr-day
CPP front group propaganda activity. Karapatan and BAYAN are both CPP fronts. In front group propaganda land the human rights record of the current administration is invariably worse than that administration that preceeded it. Thus, Aquino's record is worse than Arroyo's, Arroyo's is worse than Estrada's, etc. And all of their HR records are worse than that of the despised Ferdinand Marcos. LOL Should be a colorful demonstration.
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