Karapatan-Cagayan Valley condemned the illegal arrest of peasant organizer Stalin Valencia. A Philippine National Police (PNP) and 5th ID combined force arrested Valencia on November 15 in San Mateo, Isabela. He faces multiple criminal charges, including attempted murder, murder, and arson in Cagayan Valley.

Valencia was kept incomunicado overnight and his family was prevented from seeing him. His relatives feared that he was subjected to interrogation and psychological torture.

In Negros, several successive cases of human rights violations were recorded from October 28 to November 3.

Arrest. 94th IB soldiers captured indigenous Anoy Pacheco while he was on his way to his farm in Sitio Tigbao, Barangay Buenavista, Himamaylan City, on November 4. Pacheco is the son of a “Kalanyan” or indigenous Magahat-Bukidnon tribe leader in their area.

Ransacking. On October 28, soldiers raided and ransacked farmer Remy Villacanao’s home. Following this, soldiers surrounded and raided the home of Chona Martinez, wife and sister of victims of military political killings.

In Laguna, the urban poor community in NIA Road Purok 7, Barangay Pooc, Sta. Rosa, Laguna faces the threat of demolition. The demolition will purportedly make way for the agency’s road concreting project. It is scheduled to begin on November 18.