The North Luzon Command (Nolcom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) indiscriminately bombed and strafed farmlands in Barangay Lawak Langka, Mangatarem, Pangasinan on November 24 at around 6 a.m. under the guise of counterinsurgency operations. Three bombs were dropped in the area using aerial assets. The New People’s Army (NPA)-West Central Luzon on […]

We denounce unjust conviction of NDFP peace consultants Benito and Wilma Austria on trumped up criminal charges of kidnapping. The conviction forms part of political persecution that violates the Joint Agreement on Security and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) signed by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the NDFP. That the case was […]

The claims of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) of more than 500 children recruited as NPA combatants are completely false. This is as false as the AFP’s claims of thousands of NPA “surrenderees” which has surpassed even its own estimate of the number of NPA members. As we have emphasized in the past, […]

In the mere two weeks of intense military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, state soldiers managed to victimize at least 21 Lumad and peasants and their families in 15 separate cases of human rights violations in the provinces of North Cotabato and Bukidnon. In their fascist trail of attacks between November 10 […]

We vehemently object to the Trump government’s “donation” of $18 million worth of bombs and missiles that will exarcerbate the Duterte regime’s dirty war against the people. The war matériel was received by the AFP last Monday. We demand the incoming Biden regime to take action against continuing US military support for Duterte’s state terrorist […]