Read in: Pilipino The desecration of the remains of Justine Baustista by the elements of the 5″ ID is repugnant. It is a violation of the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitrian Law or CAHRIHL. An agreement that seeks to humanize the conduct of the armed conflict in the Philippines. The differences in […]

Responding to the clamor of people to make police and military forces pay for their brutalities and crimes the past months, units of the New People’s Army in Surigao del Norte mounted three consecutive armed offensives last January 28. The first of the three tactical offensives by the NPA-Surigao del Norte was an attack at […]

Chapters of Kabataang Makabayan (KM) in Southern Tagalog and Laguna have expressed support for residents of Hacienda Yulo in their fight against attempts to drive them away from their land. “Let us be militant and unite with farmers to drive away Seraph Security, and the Ayala-Yulo collaboration,” says Victoria Madlangbayan of KM-Laguna. Non-stop attacks and […]

When the 31st IB coerced Michael Bagasala to surrender in 2018, the military proclaimed that he may finally be able to live in peace. He had left the New People’s Army (NPA) a year earlier to return to civilian life. But on January 24 shortly after noon, police elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection […]

Read in: Pilipino Last weekend, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) boasted in a press conference in Davao City that it allotted P20 million to fund various projects under its Barangay Development Program for 215 barangays in Region 11. This is part of the P19.2 billion fund which the NTF-ELCAC […]