National Federation of Small Fisherfolk Organizations in the Philippines
“Our regional leader is being deprived of freedom and liberties based on trumped-up charges for four months now. We are seeing what the government has been trying to do here; using the delaying tactic on the due process to prolong Mangampo’s detention and ultimately capsize his morale,” Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA National Chairperson said in a statement.
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“We renew our call for justice for our fallen colleagues who were ruthlessly killed with impunity under the Duterte regime. Our organization has been the constant target of state forces as a reprisal for advancing the fishing rights and opposing the Duterte government’s policies that kill and starve the people,” Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA national chairperson said.
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Manila, Philippines – “This may be Duterte’s ultimate nightmare yet a welcome development for the Filipinos seeking justice and accountability from his terror reign. The ICC full probe is a critical step towards recovering the many counts of the Duterte regime’s high crimes against humanity that stemmed from the bloody war on drugs among other state policies that fuel grave human rights abuses,” according to the militant fishers’ group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA) on Thursday, welcoming the International Criminal Court’s full investigation into the extrajudicial killings under President Rodrigo Duterte.
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“Many horrible things could still happen in the country within the remaining year of Mr. Duterte. He could create conditions that would pave the way for his term extension. Or he could unleash more brutal crackdown against dissenters and political rivals to tighten his grip from power. So much for a Duterte regime that starves and kills Filipinos. We seek for his immediate removal in Malacanang,” Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA National Chairperson said in a statement.
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“On top of Mr. Duterte’s traditional partners in crimes which are the police and military forces, he also wants to legally equip civilians with a deadly and fatal tool. We’ve already seen this with the bloody war on drugs and campaign of terror against democratic activists and progressive organizations. It is meant to justify and put legal blanket to the killing spree and human rights abuses of the Duterte government under the guise of fighting criminality,” Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA National Chairperson said in a statement.
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“Mangampo is the elected President of Lakas ng mga Maliliit na Mangingisda ng Bicol, leading small fishers in the region on campaigns for fishing rights and coastal protection. He even facilitated our boat dispersal project in Albay province last March,” Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA National Chairperson said in a statement.
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