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Funeral for the Philippines |
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| Photo by Katia Roberts. |
Marchers wore black on Sun., Dec. 9 for an International Human Rights Day procession highlighting the Philippine army’s killing of 900 church leaders, lawyers, activists, journalists, and politicians since 2001. Sponsors included the Philippine-U.S. Solidarity Organization and Pinay sa Seattle, a group of local Filipinas supporting democratic reform in their country of ancestry. Congress is set to allocate up to $30 million in military aid to the Philippines; last month, the Senate asked the Bush Administration to hold onto the funds until military killers are brought to justice. |
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