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Indigenous, peasant activists in Northern Mindanao charged with trumped up anti-terror case

Indigenous, peasant activists in Northern Mindanao charged with trumped up anti-terror case Dear friends, The Duterte government stepped up its attacks against activists and dissenters. In Mindanao, in two separate but related incidents, leaders and members of a local farmers’ group and an indigenous organization were illegally arrested and spuriously charged with illegal possession of …

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Political activist illegally arrested after GRP’s “cancellation” of peacetalks with the NDFP

Dear friends, After President Rodrigo Duterte terminated the formal peace talks of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on February 3 and with the military’s declaration of all-out war on February 5, 2017, attacks on activists, political dissenters, indigenous peoples and ordinary civilians …

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