I wrote a short post about the search for Ret. Maj. Gen. Palparan for Global Voices Online a week ago.
Notorious as the “The Butcher,” Palparan has been charged with the kidnapping and serious illegal detention of University of the Philippines student activists Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno.
Palparan is also infamous for the rise of cases of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and other human rights abuses in every province where he was assigned under the regime of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Human rights groups have documented at least 1,206 extrajudicial killings, 206 enforced disappearances, and 2,059 illegal arrests and detention under the past administration.
Palparan has gone into hiding after an arrest warrant was filed against him and his failed attempt to escape the country to Singapore. Join the efforts to put this human rights violator to justice by reposting this poster online in your blogs, tumblers, and facebook walls.
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