A 2-day humanitarian mission was conducted by Bayan, the Philippine Peasant Movement and Pamalakaya-Aklan to help a fishermen’s community in Barangay Cawayan, New Washington, Aklan on October 12-13. It aimed to determine the condition of residents amid ongoing threats, harassment and militarization in the area.

For three months now, military operations have been conducted in the village behind the veil of the 301st IBde’s Civil Military Operations Competency Enhancement Training (CMO-CET). Soldiers occupied barangay halls and conducted house-to-house interogation without legal basis, and forced members of legal mass organizations to “surrender” as members or supporters of the revolutionary armed movement.