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GABRIELA Member, 68th Woman Organizer, Assassinated in Philippines
Note: This is the 68th killing of a woman activist under the Macapagal-Arroyo government and with the ascendancy of Brig. Gen. Jovito Palparan in the Philippine military. Palparan led the Philippine Mission to Iraq which was forced to leave when a Filipino worker was kidnapped. He has a string of human rights violations charges against him, none of which has prospered. During his tenure in the province of Mindoro Oriental, 18 progressives were assassinated, including a young town vice-mayor active in women's rights campaigns.
NEWS RELEASE
03 April 2006
For Reference: REP. LIZA LARGOZA MAZA 0920-9134540
Tels: 9316268, 9315001 loc7230; Jang Monte (Public Information
Officer) 0917-8226635
GABRIELA MEMBER SLAIN IN BOHOL
MAZA APPEALS: JUNK TERROR BILL, TERROR REGIME
Gabriela Women's Party Representative Liza Largoza Maza condemned
today the brutal murder of a member of the women's partylist
organization in Bohol.
Inday Estorba, 31, Gabriela Women's Party member and staff of the
Women's Development Center in Bohol was shot dead at close range
today at 3:00AM at her home in Bgy. Panagtaran, Candijay, Bohol. Her
husband, Gerry remains in critical condition at the Tagbilaran
Hospital. The assailant, known to Inday's family and her neighbors as
Byron, is a known Philippine Army intelligence agent in the Barangay.
Inday has long been active in the women's organization in Bohol and
is a mother to two children aged 6 and 9 years old.
"With Arroyo's butcher Palparan setting his target for the
elimination of insurgents to September, Inday Estorba's death marks
the intensification of attacks against women militants and
progressives irrationally pinpointed by the government as rebels and
insurgents. Mothers are not spared."
"Political persecution of progressive partylists and organizations as
well as the opposition undoubtedly includes the annihilation of its
members and leaders. Inday Estorba, for being an active Gabriela
member and an advocate of women's rights has been identified as a
target of Arroyo's military," said Maza.
The recent killing comes in the midst of deliberations on the
Anti-Terrorism Bill. The Congress leadership hopes to approve the
terror bill this week.
"The terror bill completes the legislative infrastructure for
Arroyo's martial rule. This all encompassing license for abuse and
authoritarian rule is meant to silence critics, militants and the
opposition, as well as keep Mrs. Arroyo in power."
"One more life has been added to the long list of Mrs. Arroyo's
terror victims. I am appealing to my colleagues; these lives give us
more than enough reason to junk not just the terror bill but the
terror government that rams it in our throats." #
03 April 2006
For Reference: REP. LIZA LARGOZA MAZA 0920-9134540
Tels: 9316268, 9315001 loc7230; Jang Monte (Public Information
Officer) 0917-8226635
GABRIELA MEMBER SLAIN IN BOHOL
MAZA APPEALS: JUNK TERROR BILL, TERROR REGIME
Gabriela Women's Party Representative Liza Largoza Maza condemned
today the brutal murder of a member of the women's partylist
organization in Bohol.
Inday Estorba, 31, Gabriela Women's Party member and staff of the
Women's Development Center in Bohol was shot dead at close range
today at 3:00AM at her home in Bgy. Panagtaran, Candijay, Bohol. Her
husband, Gerry remains in critical condition at the Tagbilaran
Hospital. The assailant, known to Inday's family and her neighbors as
Byron, is a known Philippine Army intelligence agent in the Barangay.
Inday has long been active in the women's organization in Bohol and
is a mother to two children aged 6 and 9 years old.
"With Arroyo's butcher Palparan setting his target for the
elimination of insurgents to September, Inday Estorba's death marks
the intensification of attacks against women militants and
progressives irrationally pinpointed by the government as rebels and
insurgents. Mothers are not spared."
"Political persecution of progressive partylists and organizations as
well as the opposition undoubtedly includes the annihilation of its
members and leaders. Inday Estorba, for being an active Gabriela
member and an advocate of women's rights has been identified as a
target of Arroyo's military," said Maza.
The recent killing comes in the midst of deliberations on the
Anti-Terrorism Bill. The Congress leadership hopes to approve the
terror bill this week.
"The terror bill completes the legislative infrastructure for
Arroyo's martial rule. This all encompassing license for abuse and
authoritarian rule is meant to silence critics, militants and the
opposition, as well as keep Mrs. Arroyo in power."
"One more life has been added to the long list of Mrs. Arroyo's
terror victims. I am appealing to my colleagues; these lives give us
more than enough reason to junk not just the terror bill but the
terror government that rams it in our throats." #
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