{"id":6299,"date":"2022-04-14T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:39:04","slug":"34-murder-charges-because-of-bloody-sunday-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/34-murder-charges-because-of-bloody-sunday-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"34 murder charges because of &#8220;Bloody Sunday&#8221; massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 7 marked the first anniversary of the so-called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/crackdown-on-activits-in-sundays-massacre-nine-activists-killed-by-state-security-forces\/\">Bloody Sunday<\/a>&#8221; massacre. State security forces killed nine activists while six activists were arrested. In the meantime, 34 police and military personal who were involved in a total of three killings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2022\/03\/07\/2165564\/year-bloody-sunday-raids-17-cops-face-murder-raps-harassment-activists-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been charged with murder<\/a>. \u2018We also assert that blood is not only upon the hands of the policemen involved in the raids: President Duterte\u2019s kill-kill-kill orders, the red-tagging of NTF-ELCAC officials, and the judges who issued the warrants have clearly and directly led to this gruesome bloodshed a year ago\u2019, said human rights organization Karapatan. However, the threats, attacks, murders and red-tagging of human rights activists continue, as Karapatan and the workers&#8217; organization Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) emphasize. Duterte\u2019s administration uses the massacre to intimidate activists, says KMU Chairperson Elmer Labog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bloody Sunday&#8221; already led to debates about the legal process of <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/bloody-sunday-sparks-discussions-about-the-handling-of-warrants\/\">search and arrest warrants<\/a> as well as to a <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/steps-to-legally-protect-human-rights-defenders-2\/\">Supreme Court decision<\/a> which resulted in several charges against activists being dropped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo \u00a9 Raffy Lerma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 7 marked the first anniversary of the so-called &#8220;Bloody Sunday&#8221; massacre. State security forces killed nine activists while six activists were arrested. In the meantime, 34 police and military personal who were involved in a total of three killings have been charged with murder. \u2018We also assert that blood is not only upon the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5262,"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-6299","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\/6299","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7904,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/7904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}