{"id":5596,"date":"2021-03-10T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2021-03-11T20:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T20:03:54","slug":"crackdown-on-activits-in-sundays-massacre-nine-activists-killed-by-state-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/crackdown-on-activits-in-sundays-massacre-nine-activists-killed-by-state-security-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown on activists: In &#8220;Bloody Sundays&#8221; massacre, nine activists killed by state security forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Past Sunday, March 7, 2021, nine activists have been killed and six arrested in what has been called a massacre by the hand of state security forces. This Sunday will entry in the history books as the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/lawyer-says-families-blocked-from-claiming-bodies-bloody-sunday-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloody Sunday<\/a>&#8220;. In Calabarzon, equiped with 24 search warrants, Philippine state security forces entered the private houses of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/newsbreak\/iq\/names-activists-killed-by-duterte-government-bloody-sunday-march-7-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labour, housing, social, Indigeneous People&#8217;s Rights and climate activits<\/a>, most of them belonging to institutions that had suffered red-tagging, vilifications and threats before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1404567\/robredo-calls-for-justice-on-massacre-of-9-activists-in-calabarzon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vice-President Leni Robredo<\/a> called the crackdown a massacre and urged for a clean and independent probe into the killings.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous international institutions have published statements and called on the Philippine Government to invest the cases, end impunity and ensure human rights for Philippine citizens. Read here the statements of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/03\/10\/philippines-killings-highlight-need-international-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Rights Watch<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26865&amp;LangID=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN High Commissioner on Human Rights<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/headquarters\/headquarters-homepage\/94609\/eu-delegation-philippines-statement-killing-nine-activists-calabarzon-7-march-2021_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past Sunday, March 7, 2021, nine activists have been killed and six arrested in what has been called a massacre by the hand of state security forces. This Sunday will entry in the history books as the &#8220;Bloody Sunday&#8220;. In Calabarzon, equiped with 24 search warrants, Philippine state security forces entered the private houses of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights-defenders","category-human-rights-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5646,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions\/5646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}