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Human Rights Worker Gets Death Threats in Kidapawan, North Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines

Following the assassination of peasant leader Celso Pojas in Davao City on May 15, 2008, Mr. Kelly Delgado, 31 years old and head of the Karapatan team that responded to the incident, was invited for a radio interview by Mr. Abner Francisco of Charm Radio based in Kidapawan City. He was interviewed on May 16, …

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Randy Malayao

UPDATE: Abducted Peace consultant for NDFP in Cagayan Valley, Philippines surfaced in PNP-CIDG’s custody

On May 15, 2008 at around 8 o’clock in the evening, Randy Felix P. Malayao, 39 years old, was having dinner with his friends at a restaurant in SM North EDSA in Quezon City when they noticed two men suspiciously looking at them (both were sporting crew cuts and holding high-tech mobile phones with headsets). …

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Peasant leader slain in front of farmers’ association’s office in Davao City, Philippines

Account of Incident: On May 15, 2008 at around 5:45 in the morning, Celso Pojas, 45 years old, was having coffee with his officemates inside the Farmers Association in Davao City (FADC) and Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)-Southern Mindanao office. They were to travel to Compostela Valley to visit the Lumad farmers who were victims …

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Philippine Peasant Movement’s Deputy Secretary General for External Affairs arrested in Bago City, Negros Occide(Initial Update)

At around 2:00 in the afternoon of 28 January 2008, around 30 armed elements of the PNP-PMG in plainclothes and ski masks surrounded the Builders Training Center where the Unyon ng Manggagawang Agrikultura (UMA) or the Agricultural Workers Union and the Negros Federation of Sugar Workers (NSFW) were holding a Conference for Genuine Agrarian Reform. …

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Ex-political detainee gunned down on his birthday in Tagbilaran City, Bohol Province, Phillippines

On 17 January 2008, Ronald C. Sendrijas visited his sister who just gave birth at the Ramiro Hospital in Tagbilaran City. At around 9:00 in the evening, he went out to buy medicine for his headache at Paz Pharmacy just across the hospital. At around 9:20 PM, as he approached the pharmacy counter, two men …

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