“The Marcos administration has the audacity to claim that it is a ‘long-time champion of international humanitarian law,’ while his National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) run roughshod on the basic rights and fundamental freedoms of ordinary peasants, Indigenous people, and political dissenters. This posturing is belied by the state of unpeace and terror inflicted by State security forces in the countryside.” – KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay
