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Nine political killings in three weeks, amid AFP’s all-out-war and counter-insurgency program Oplan Kapayapaan

Dear friends, Recent political developments, notably President Rodrigo Duterte’s termination of the unilateral ceasefire of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), his cancellation of the GRP-NDFP peacetalks and the military’s subsequent all-out-war declaration, have intensified the repression and attacks against the civilian populace …

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Another elderly, ailing political prisoner brought to prison hospital due to chest pains

Warrant of arrest issued against 15 activists and church workers for assisting Lumad evacuees

Dear Friends,

Karapatan human rights workers, rights violations victims in Southern Mindanao region under attack

Extra-Judicial Killing of MAPASU Council member HENRY ALAMEDA

Surveillance of UCCP Pastor in Laguna, Philippines

Two unidentified men on a motorcycle went to the house of UCCP member Deborah P. Olarte, in Brgy. Masikap, Mabitac, Laguna on August 20, 2013 between 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Olarte’s residence was three houses away from the UCCP chapel where Pastor June Ver F. Mangao is assigned. Olarte is a younger sister of UCCP …

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Karapatan staff receives death threats in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental

On the afternoon of November 8, 2011, while Karapatan coordinator Jose Luis Blanco was resting at the office after a field work, he received a call on his cellphone from an unregistered number (09095596583). The male caller asked if he is speaking to Jose Luis Blanco. After confirming that he is Blanco, the caller then …

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Church worker and brother of EJK victim also gunned down by suspected state security forces in Palawan, Philippines

Account of the incident: According to reports of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) South Luzon Jurisdiction, on September 5, 2011 at around 1:30pm, Rabenio Sungit was shot dead by an unidentified motorcycle-riding man wearing a balaclava using a .45 caliber pistol in the public market along Pagayona Street, Municipality of Quezon, …

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Seven-year-old girl shot by drunken soldier in Compostela Valley, Mindanao, Southern Philippines

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Environmentalist harassed in Central Philippines

For two days, Vince Cinches of the environment watchdog 350.org was harassed by suspected state security forces in the Visayas. On July 29, 2011, Vince travelled alone by bus to Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental province from Cebu province on board the Ceres Liner bus, where he was tailed by at least four suspected military intelligence …

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