Topic: massacre

Remembering China's Tiananmen Square crackdown

Remembering China's Tiananmen Square crackdown

Isaac Lawrence, AFP
Posted at Jun 05 11:22 AM

A woman (L) holds a front page copy of a newspaper from after China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 in Hong Kong on Friday after police closed the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gather annually to mourn the victims of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. Read more »

Phone lights signal Hong Kong's Tiananmen memories still shine

Phone lights signal Hong Kong's Tiananmen memories still shine

Yan Zhao, Daniel Suen and Louise Delmotte, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 04 11:43 PM

As the clock struck 8pm in Hong Kong's shopping district of Mong Kok, dozens of people simultaneously turned their mobile phone lights on, a small gesture of defiance in a city where mass remembrance of Beijing's Tiananmen crackdown has been banned. Read more »

Tiananmen Square massacre remembered 32 years on

Tiananmen Square massacre remembered 32 years on

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 04 09:14 PM

Members of various cause-oriented groups hold a protest and candle lighting ceremony while offering a thousand white roses at the 11th World Scout Jamboree Memorial Rotonda in Quezon City on Friday to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.  Read more »

‘Stop crackdown on IPs’

‘Stop crackdown on IPs’

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 25 01:38 PM

Members of Katribu Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas hold a protest action against the intensifying crackdown on indigenous peoples and communities in front of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) office in Quezon Avenue, Quezon City on Tuesday, as the House of Representatives conducts its hearing on the Kaliwa Dam Project.  Read more »

Children were spared death but traumatized in Colorado massacre

Children were spared death but traumatized in Colorado massacre

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 10 06:48 PM

COLORADO SPRINGS - Investigators will continue seeking a motive and possibly release the names of the victims and the shooter on Monday after a Sunday morning massacre at a Colorado home where a man killed six adults and then himself in the presence of children. Read more »

Remembering the Mendiola Massacre

Remembering the Mendiola Massacre

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 22 06:26 PM

Demonstrators troop to Mendiola Bridge in Manila on Friday to commemorate the Mendiola Massacre, which happened 34 years ago.  Read more »

Ninoy Aquino and the Jabidah massacre

Ninoy Aquino and the Jabidah massacre

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Dec 12 03:08 AM

Recalling this shocking carnage that happened 52 years ago, perpetrated and covered up by gov't, requires a bit of a history refresher; and a remembrance, more especially because the cover-up and denial continue to be a cocky and vainglorious endeavor pursued by the Marcos family's well-funded revisionist cadre of trolls.  Read more »

DOJ hit for absolving 40 Maguindanao massacre suspects in 2nd complaint

DOJ hit for absolving 40 Maguindanao massacre suspects in 2nd complaint

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 23 03:58 PM

The lawyer of some of the Maguindanao massacre victims' families slammed the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday for absolving 40 of the 48 suspects in the second complaint filed over the brutal killing 11 years ago of 57 persons, which also resulted in a missing photographer. Read more »

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