Perfecto Caparas

Journalist, Pressenza International Press Agency.

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The mass murders during his presidency may amount to state-sponsored killings, according to the Philippine Supreme Court... referring to the 3,967 “Drug personalities” killed and 16,355 Homicide Cases... cited in The President’s 2017 Key Accomplishments.
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“From the very beginning, the scene at Mendiola Bridge was foreboding.”
My gratitude to Rappler for publishing my account of the Mendiola massacre.

https://t.co/NriqPxaPlC

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“At that moment, I greatly admired and respected the photojournalists who ran towards the slain marchers, lifted, carried, and brought their bodies to media vehicles, and whose drivers sped away to take them to hospitals immediately after gunfire stopped.”https://t.co/os0IGvpUf3

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“Their refusal to drop to the ground or to run, their decision to stay on, to hold the line, to keep standing facing bursts of gunfire was political. It was a message.”
My gratitude to Rappler for publishing my account of the Mendiola massacre.
https://t.co/Ls1XE6mi9V

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My interview with detained ex-senator Leila M. de Lima:
https://t.co/CJOl3AOQ2W
#politicalprisoner #PrisonerOfConscience #HumanRightsDefender #LeiladeLima #WarOnDrugs #Impunity #SummaryKillings #CrimesAgainstHumanity

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“We were able to show that in the struggle against a resurgent authoritarian leader, women were the first to stand up and fight to defend human rights and women’s rights.”
My Pressenza interview with political prisoner Leila M. de Lima.
https://t.co/quhpO3jgIb
#LeilaDeLima #Women

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My Pressenza interview with political prisoner Leila M. de Lima:
https://t.co/6YpHSzUy9s
#redtagging #redbaiting #politicalculture #democracy #media #criticalthinking #elections

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“The Duterte Administration showed us the amount of destruction that a criminal syndicate such as the Davao mafia can do to a country and its government once it captures the powers of the Executive.” – Leila M. de Lima
https://t.co/9LkwE6Ic3u

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2nd part of my interview with former senator Leila M. de Lima:
https://t.co/Oh2G1ysTnN
#PoliticalPrisoner #DrugWar #WarOnDrugs #authoritarian #RuleOfLaw #DeLima #LeilaDeLima

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My interview with former senator Leila M. de Lima just published in Pressenza. Thank you, Madam Senator, for granting this interview.
https://t.co/Gwy584Zp4b
#DrugWar #WarOnDrugs #PoliticalPrisoner #LeilaDeLima #ejk #ExtraJudicialKilling

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https://t.co/rca1yVT5pz
#CrimesAgainstHumanity #Murder #ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #ICC #Duterte #WarOnDrugs #Impunity #KarimKhan #MartialLaw #Redtagging

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How Philippine Authorities Appear to be Scheming to Bar ICC Probe of Duterte-Era ‘Death Squads’ https://t.co/oyB9ynIDaw

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I am grateful to Pressenza for translating into German my piece titled “West Philippine Sea: Beijing must compensate Manila.” Thank you.
https://t.co/PLcP7JDHol

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West Philippine Sea: Beijing must compensate Manila https://t.co/QGndrIapKt

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Thank you so much. I am super grateful to IU McKinney – bastion of great faculty leaders and constituencies who have razor-sharp minds and big hearts.
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International Criminal Court’s Investigation into Philippines’ Politics of Mass Murder https://t.co/XN7lYr7YTC

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Perfecto Caparas, a human rights lawyer based in Indiana, noted that the DOJ’s legal framework doesn’t even use the International Humanitarian Law or Republic Act 9851, which he said would cover systematic killings.
https://t.co/GixGE2sAFH

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