Another Bayan Muna leader shot dead

1/02/2007 12:51:00 AM

Rodolfo "Ompong" Alvarado, the Bayan Muna provincial coordinator in Albay [...] was shot dead inside his car on Dec. 31 in Ligao City. [...] Alvarado has the 122nd member of Bayan Muna and the 818th victim of political killings since President Macapagal-Arroyo reseumed office in 2001, according to [the] Bayan Muna national deputy secretary general. [...] Alvarado had seved as the regional coordinator of "Tabang Bicol", a relief effort spearheaded by the part-list group in the aftermath of supertyphoon "Reming". Read more from the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

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    Democracy, according to the late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, is "a question of human dignity, [a]nd human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions."

    But exercising political freedom in the Philippines, which purports itself to be a democracy, can lead to death. Since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed the presidency of the country in 2001, more than 800 Filipinos murdered in politically-motivated, extra-judicial, targeted killings. Since the 4th quarter of July 2005, one person has been killed every two days. The victims of these brazen acts of violence were all unarmed citizens: lawyers, judges, journalists, medical practitioners, members of cause-oriented groups, priests, church-workers, human rights advocates, laborers and farmers.

    It is widely believed—and the United Nations support this belief—that state security forces are complicit in these crimes.