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A message to the new AFP Chief of Staff
The new AFP chief of staff should understand that the regime will not be able to end the insurgency with lies, naked terror, fake surrenders, trumped-up charges, militarization, and more repression. These rights violations actually give rise to more resistance. These violations exist and have been well-documented. Past regimes have merely added fuel to the…
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Drop the trumped-up charges against Boyette, Windel and others
Activists are under attack through trumped-up charges that are meant to land them in jail. Last December 2020, the PNP in Tagum, Davao del Norte filed a trumped-up case of murder against 11 people from different parts of the Philippines, for a killing that happened in March 22, 2018. Bayan’s Lutgardo “Boyette” Jurcales, Jr, like…
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End red-tagging, Address the Roots of the Armed Conflict
It is time to end red-tagging and instead address the roots of the armed conflict. Red-tagging has become reckless and indiscriminate. It has included among its targets ordinary farmers, indigenous peoples and workers. Recently it has included lawyers, doctors, artists, church leaders and journalists. A lawyer and a doctor were killed in separate incidents after…
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DEFEND WINDEL, FREE THE LAND!
BAYAN joins the call of activist mass organizations, human rights defenders and Indigenous Peoples advocates to defend Windel Bolinget amidst series of attacks and the trumped-up murder case against him. Attacks of this sort being inflicted on activist leaders like Windel, who is the Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA) Chair and the KATRIBU convener, is not…