The Armed Forces of the Phi­lip­pi­nes (AFP) squandered approximately P25 million in public funds in its offensive last Ma­y 14 at Sit­io Ha­yon, Li­bas Sud, San Mi­gu­el, Su­ri­gao del Sur. In a single day, it dropped eight 230-kilo bombs using FA-50 fighter jets, and launched 24 rockets using helicopters. The area was also strafed using […]

More than 100 Lumads were arrested in various parts of Northern Mindanao in the course of three months of combat operations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). The worst among these is the arrest of 100 peasants and Lumads in Sitio Balaas and Airburn in Barangay Mabuhay; and Nabangkal in Barangay Magkalungay, San […]

Elements of the 9th Special Forces Com­pany and police held and arbitrarily detained a convoy of the Inter­na­tio­nal Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross in Lia­nga, Su­ri­gao del Sur on May 29. The convoy was reportedly transporting two wounded Red fighters identified as Jea Ange­les Pe­rez and Noel Da­dang. Flagging down and detaining a vehicle with […]

Offensives mounted by the CPI-Maoist Red fighters of the Communist Party of India (CPI)-Maoist seized 16 weapons, ammo vests, magazins, ammunition, and handheld radios in its successful ambush in Minpa, Sukma District, Chattisgarh on March 21. Seventeen jawan (police) were killed and 15 were wounded. Two others were killed and three were wounded in another […]

Hundreds of activists took to the streets after an almost three-month lockdown to oppose the Duterte regime’s “Anti-Terrorism” Bill. Approximately one thousand rallyists converged at the Univer­sity of the Phi­lip­pi­nes (UP)-Diliman in Quezon City, and several others in Laguna last June 4 to oppose the said bill which was then being railroaded in the lower […]