Isn't it better to create alerts before something bad happens unlike in India when IITians and IIM alums raised hue and cry AFTER Satyendra Dubey and the IIM guy were murdered by corrupt contractors?
Umesh
Paul Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:33:16 -0400
From: "Paul Ham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Frgraduates-list] Alert: Harvard Alum Environmentalist under
Murder Threat
A group of law school professors and students are working on getting
the word out on some recent events in the Visayan Sea region of the
Philippines. Please pass this along to colleagues if it is
appropriate.
[Please visit http://www.pielc.org/OposaIndex.htm and
http://visayan.blogspot.com/ for more background and updates.]
A colleague's life is in danger. Professor Antonio Oposa, Jr., a
Harvard-educated lecturer at the University of the Philippines College
of Law, has a bounty of PHP 1 million on his head because of his
activities curtailing illegal commercial fishing in the Visayan Sea.
The academic community worldwide must join the legal community in
denouncing this brutal act of terrorism. Both must call upon the
government of the Philippines to protect Prof. Oposa, his family, and
the environmental interests he continues to fight for in the face of
these threats.
On April 12, 2006, Prof. Oposa's close colleague and friend Elpidio de
la Victoria, a Cebu City government official, was shot dead in front
of his wife and son in broad daylight. Furthermore, this act of
violence was committed by the hired gun of an off-duty policeman, a
citizen and protector of peace. Of the two contracts commissioned,
Prof. Oposa is now the second, yet unfulfilled. The power of these
terrorist activities is great; but by imploring upon the Philippine
government, future acts may be prevented. If words alone can prevent
the senseless elimination of this noble life, then is it not a
worldwide duty to wield these words?
Prof. Oposa is a shining representative for the international academic
community. Beyond his professorial duties, he has served the public
and private sectors regarding environmental concerns. He was chosen as
the commencement speaker at the Harvard Law School in 1997. Prof.
Oposa has dedicated his life to education, advocacy, and academics. It
behooves the international academic community to support the
protection of his life and implead upon the government of the
Philippines to recognize the value and basic human rights of academics
everywhere.
For further information, please contact Professor Zygmunt Plater
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at Boston College Law School or Professor John Bobine
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at the University of Oregon School of Law.
Please visit http://www.pielc.org/OposaIndex.htm and
http://visayan.blogspot.com/ for more background and updates.
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