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US group sees expansion of PH drug war killings to crackdown on Left

August 14, 2019 admin civilians, communists, Conflicts, data, duterte, Killings, Latest News Stories, Nation, research, Violence, war on drugs

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:55:36 +0000

Daughter refutes mom: I am not missing, brainwashed; I left home willingly

MANILA, Philippines – Attacks on civilians in the Philippines now included the killing of members and leaders of protest groups branded as communists, aggravating the violence arising from the government’s bloody campaign against drugs and increasing risks of a free fall to authoritarian rule, according to a United States-based conflict research and analysis group. In […]

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Reds reply tit-for-tat to Duterte, orders attacks on DDS, too

August 4, 2019 admin civilians, communist, DDS, duterte, guerrillas, Killings, Latest News Stories, Military, Negros Oriental, noncombatants, police, rebels, Regions, torture

Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 10:13:14 +0000

LUCENA CITY—The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Sunday (Aug. 4) described President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to the military to respond “tit-for-tat” to supposed rebel atrocities as a “code for killings and torture” that would target civilians, promising to “fight back” for noncombatants who can’t defend themselves.

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Bishop pleads to Duterte: More blood won’t stop Negros bloodshed

August 1, 2019 admin bishop, bloodthirsty, Church, civilians, dead, Killings, Latest News Stories, Martial law, Military, Negros Oriental, police, rebels, Regions

Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 12:57:22 +0000

A top Church leader on Negros Island decried the Duterte administration’s bloodthirsty response to the bloodbath in Negros Oriental province, appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to abandon plans to declare martial law and instead tread on a path to peace by resuming talks with communist guerrillas.

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Group: No war in PH and yet attacks on civilians rising

July 13, 2019 admin acled, Attacks, civilians, Conflicts, data, drug war killings, Information, Latest News Stories, Nation, research, rights, targeted, war

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 13:49:34 +0000

The rising number of direct attacks on civilians in the Philippines despite the absence of “large-scale conventional war” caught the attention of researchers in a United States-based group because it exceeded the figures in countries where armed conflict was widespread, according to the group’s research director.

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