Marching the Torches

Stop the Killings Torch Parade
Cordillera Human Rights Alliance*
Igorot Park, Baguio City, 07 December 2006

A hundred torches is not enough for the many victims of Human Rights Violations under the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo regime.

“From the 797 killings since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took the presidency, 96 victims were indigenous peoples and 33 of these were from the Cordillera. None of these cases has been solved to this day. No perpetrator has been punished.”[link]









*(CHRA was responsible for filing complaints on political killings in the different offices of the United Nations which included the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Human Rights Defenders, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Special Rapporteur on Extra-judicial Killings and Summary Executions.)