{"id":265815,"date":"2020-08-19T06:26:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T10:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=265815"},"modified":"2020-08-19T06:26:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T10:26:45","slug":"blaming-state-forces-for-activists-slay-unfounded-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/19\/blaming-state-forces-for-activists-slay-unfounded-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaming state forces for activists\u2019 slay \u2018unfounded\u2019: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253412\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/roque-new.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-253412 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/roque-new.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/roque-new.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/roque-new-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after Negros-based activist Zara Alvarez was shot dead on Monday night in Mandalagan, Bacolod City. (File photo: Presidential Photo via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday condemned the killing of two human rights activists the past two weeks, saying that blaming state forces for their deaths is \u201cunfounded\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after Negros-based activist Zara Alvarez was shot dead on Monday night in Mandalagan, Bacolod City.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez\u2019 death came a week after the murder of National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace consultant and peasant leader Randall Echanis in his rented house in Novaliches, Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe denounce any form of violence perpetuated against citizens, including activists. We are a nation of laws; and violence has no place in any civilized society,\u201d Roque said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured that law enforcement authorities are investigating the killings of both Alvarez and Echanis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlaming state forces as the people behind these murders is unfounded as investigation on the killings of Randall Enchanis and Zara Alvarez is now underway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said the Palace will wait for the formal report from the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Reports showed that Alvarez was gunned down on Monday night in a subdivision in Barangay Mandalagan, Bacolod City.<\/p>\n<p>She was a former campaign and education director and paralegal of Karapatan in Negros Island.<\/p>\n<p>Karapatan Secretary-General Cristina Palabay said that Alvarez was included in the supposed 2018 list where Echanis was tagged as a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Echanis was found dead with multiple stab wounds and two gunshots on his head in Novaliches, Quezon City last August 10.<\/p>\n<p>He was laid to rest on Monday at the Loyola Memorial park in Marikina City.<\/p>\n<p>Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chair Jose Maria \u201cJoma\u201d Sison earlier blamed the government for the killing of Echanis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday condemned the killing of two human rights activists the past two weeks, saying that blaming state &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":253412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265817,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265815\/revisions\/265817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}