Palparan’s ‘legacy’ lives on in Mindanao

by Germelina Lacorte VERA Files Retired Army general Jovito Palparan will be reinventing himself as a party-list representative in Congress, but his legacy of anti-communist crackdowns lives on in places like Compostela Valley, Sultan Kudarat and South Cotabato provinces in Mindanao where peasant and human rights leaders are being killed as the government intensifies counterinsurgency [...]

April 27, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Human Rights, Vera Files  27 Comments