Victims of human-rights violations under the leadership of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos and President Rodrigo Duterte are set to join together and participate in a rally on Saturday afternoon to oppose Charter change and the alleged rise of tyranny of the government.
The group Hustisya, an organization for the victims and relatives of extra judicial killings, political prisoners, and other human rights violations, announced that its members would be participating on the rallies set this Feb. 24.
“Dictators and fascist regimes may have killed, disappeared and detained thousands, but as long as we are here, we will not be silenced. We will continue to march, cry out for justice, and prove they will never ever prevail,” Evangeline Hernandez, Hustisya chairperson, said in a statement.
“Among us are victims of Marcos’ martial law, and families of victims killed, disappeared, detained under almost all regimes post-EDSA, and up to the Duterte regime,” Hernandez added.
“We stand, amid all threats, that all the horror, grief and rage that we experienced when they silenced our loved ones, should cease to exist,” she pointed out.
Protesters would first have the annual “Salabungan,” the reenactment of the union of ordinary people and government forces during the ouster of the late dictator Marcos, which would happen at the Edsa Shrine.
The members would then march their way toward Edsa People Power Monument for a program. /jpv
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