Filipino Youth for Peace

http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2003/iraq04252003.html

Amnesty International expressed concern today at the disturbing article and images portrayed in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet which show American soldiers escorting naked Iraqi men through a park in Baghdad. The pictures reveal that someone has written the words ‘Ali Baba - Haram(i)’ (which means Ali Baba - thief) in Arabic on the prisoners’ chests.

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The Executive Committee of the Ecumenical Bishops Forum, having affirmed its commitment for justice and peace in the Philippines, and as a concrete act of that commitment hereby declares that:

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by FR. ANTONIO J. RANADA, S.V.D.

PRESIDENT


Dear Dr. Quisumbing:


We write to appeal to the Commission on Human Rights to investigate the illegal detention of children in conflict with the law in police jails nationwide and then to issue an official statement condemning this institutionalized form of human rights violation.

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by PILGRIMS FOR PEACE


[Editors note: Pilgrims for Peace is a broad alliance of advocates of a lasting peace based on freedom, democracy and social justice. We are Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths. We come from our churches, academic institutions and organizations. We call for the formal resumption of the peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines as well as with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.]
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Like Rey, the eight other victims were also shot to death. Seven of them had broken skulls, their brains blown away. The lone woman, Rowena, 26, died when a bullet crashed into her head; she was believed to be pregnant.

By Roxanne Omega-Doron

Bulatlat.com

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