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Minorities protest rights violations

Minorities protest rights violations
Published: August 22, 2012 09:38 AM GMT
Updated: August 22, 2012 09:38 AM GMT

About 150 people representing the Philippines many ethnic groups marched to the presidential palace in Manila today to protest alleged rights violations to mark International Indigenous Peoples Day. Protesters dragged an effigy of President Benigno Aquino driving a tank to “symbolize the scourge on indigenous peoples,” said Piva Macliing Malayao of the National Alliance of Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations in the Philippines (KAMP). Minority human rights had worsened under the present administration, she added, citing KAMP statistics showing 16 indigenous victims of extrajudicial killings since Aquino took office two years ago. Loretta Rosales, the head of the government’s Commission on Human Rights, acknowledged her office had received allegations of killings, torture, enforced disappearances and harassment since 2010.

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