“We are deeply worried that these latest killings indicate an escalation in violence, intimidation and harassment and red tagging of human rights defenders.” — UN
Mass killing of civilians in the Philippines appalls United Nations
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Parlade and the Southern Luzon Command: Killings, humanitarian law violations, arrests and displacement
Bulatlat looks back on Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr.’s bloody rule in Southern Luzon.
‘A stab to the heart of the Constitution,’ petitioners say of recent killings of civilians
“The attacks on Atty. Guillen and the Southern Luzon activists are not just a condemnable assault on a member of the legal profession and civil society actors, but also a stab to the heart of the Constitution…”
A weaponized justice system brings the worst injustices
This latest spate of attacks against activists came a mere nine weeks since the PNP launched a similar operation in Panay island. Nine people were killed and 17 were arrested by the police in several indigenous Tumandok communities on Dec 30, 2020.
‘Bloody Sunday’ spells killings, mass arrests in Southern Tagalog
Five activists were killed and three arrested in a simultaneous police raid on March 7, just two days after President Rodrigo Duterte issued yet another kill order to finish off communist fighters in the Philippines.