538th day of the disappearance of James Balao?

On the Monday Demonstration inStuttgart, Germany, 22nd of March 2010 we counted contineously – just as it was decided by the Monday-Demonstration Movement Stuttgart in our partnership agreement between the Monday-Demonstration-Movement  in Stuttgart and the family Balao and Cordillera People Alliance (CPA) of October 2008- the days of the disappearance of James Balao.

On this Monday it was the 538th  day

two migrants of Turkey-Kurdistan joined the international watch-and protest vigil and protested against the goverment of the Philippines demanding to surface James Balao and to tell the truth to his family, friends in the Philippines and abroad about his disappearance.

The migrants of Turkey know very well about that issue of human rights violations as in Turkey there is nearly the same situation as in the Philippines. A lot of progreesiv journalists, trade-unionists and others suffer under  enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and political repression and people, who want to change this situation, are even blamed as „terrorists“ like they do in the Philippines, but in reality this is nothing but a big betray!

Therefore it was no question for them and others to express their solidarity with the people of the Philippines and their protest against such a political situation and they send their warmest greetings to the familiy of James Balao.

But the 22nd of March is the day after the beginning of springtime here in Germany. We know, that the winter will pass by once and that the winter have to make place  the new life with the sun in the eve and the happy people sitting outside talking and walking and going on the street for their future in freedom and welfare for all: no winter will last for ever, the new time is uprising worldwide …and we and James are just a part of it.

On behalf of the Mondaydemonstration movement in Stuttgart, Germany