Gov’t troops massacre 9 Tumandok in Panay

Two days before the year ends, 12th Infantry Battalion-Philippine Army (12IBPA) troopers and the Philippine National Police in Western Visayas swooped down on Tumandok communities in Calinog in Iloilo and Tapaz in Capiz and killed the victims in a Synchronized Enhanced Management of Police Operations (SEMPO).

Military kills peasant leader in Iloilo

While the Philippine Army claims the victim was a rebel guerrilla, the local peasant group vows he was a civilian. The New People’s Army said none of their fighters have been killed or wounded in the firefight.

Iloilo groups hold People’s SONA

Hundreds of protesters held a People’s SONA last Monday, June 23, in time for President Rodrigo Duterte’s third State of the Nation Address. The activists called for justice for victims of extrajudicial killings as they demanded a stop to militarization of communities, human rights violations, neo-liberal economic policies, corruption in government as well as other […]