The 2007 year-end report on the human rights situation in the Philippines

The U.S.-Arroyo regime started Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) or Oplan “Freedom
Watch” in 2002 as its five-year national counter-insurgency blueprint. It failed to
meet its targets in 2006 and was extended as OBL II in 2007. What OBL accomplished were the extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of hundreds of men and women from among political activists, peasants, workers, media persons, church people, lawyers and other civilians from various sectors of Philippine society.

OBL II promised to decimate the revolutionary forces of the Communist Party of
the Philippines, New People’s Party and the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (CPP-NPA-NDFP) by 2010, the end of GMA’s current term.
Karapatan’s documentation of OBL’s record of violations from January to December
2007 showed the continuing state violence that the U.S.-Arroyo regime committed
not only against the insurgent forces but also against civilians, especially those
involved in the legal democratic movement.

Dangerous Regime, Defiant People

Arroyo’s Undeclared Martial Law

Cry for Justice Heard and Echoed Around the World

Increasing International Pressure

GMA’s Token Moves

Supreme Court “Unsheathes” its “Unused Power”

Conclusion and Demands

The Rule on the Writ of Amparo