U.S.-Trained and Funded Philippine Military Implicated in Abduction and Torture of American Citizen

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2, 2009   Reference: Rhonda Ramiro, Secretary General, BAYAN-USA, 415-377-2599, secgen@bayanusa.org   U.S.-Trained and Funded Philippine Military Implicated in Abduction and Torture of American Citizen Alliance of Filipino American Organizations Vows to Hold U.S. and Philippine Governments Accountable and Demands End to U.S. Taxpayer Support for Philippine Military   The [...]

Philippine government trying to cover-up Fil-am abduction

News Release May 28, 2009 Philippine government trying to cover-up Fil-am abduction The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan condemned in the strongest terms the statement coming from the Philippine government and its Presidential Human Rights Commission on the circumstances of the abduction and eventually surfacing of Filipino-American activist Melissa Roxas and her companions Juanito Carabeo and John [...]