{"id":5328,"date":"2018-11-02T20:47:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T09:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2018-11-02T20:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T09:47:16","slug":"duterte-administration-treating-dissent-as-crime-%e2%94%81-colmenares-by-consuelo-marquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5328","title":{"rendered":"Duterte administration treating dissent as crime \u2501 Colmenares by Consuelo Marquez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayan Muna chair <strong>Neri Colmenares<\/strong> accused the Duterte administration of treating dissent as a crime, denouncing the arrest of nine members of militant groups in a series of operations by the military. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At a forum at the University Hotel at the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines, Colmenares said members of Gabriela, Anak-pawis and Bayan Muna were arrested in separate military operations.<\/p>\n<p>Mine activists from these organizations were arrested in a series of operations launched by the military since the previous week. Among those arrested was Adelberto Silva, who was accused of possessing a .45-caliber pistol, rifle, hand grenade and an improvised explosive device.<\/p>\n<p>Activists are being treated as criminals,\u201d he said at the forum.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is not just a threat to activists but also for ordinary citizens, who protest increases in prices,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Colmenares, a senatorial candidate, also denounced Malaca\u00f1ang for a crackdown on activists, which included a plan to form a task force to end insurgency by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Communist tag<\/p>\n<p>He said the military had branded those protesting high prices and abuses as communists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the mindset of the military,\u201d Colmenares said. \u201cThat is the thinking\u201d of President Rodrigo Duterte, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalaca\u00f1ang is the mastermind of the crackdown on political dissent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriela Rep. Emmi de Jesus agreed with Colmenares, saying the treatment of activists as criminals showed the tyrannical rule of the Duterte administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can now feel how tyrannical this government is,\u201d she said at the same forum. (First published in Inquirer.net) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares accused the Duterte administration of treating dissent as a crime, denouncing the arrest of nine members of militant groups in a series of operations by the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5329,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions\/5329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}