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Human Rights in Mindanao: A Year of Living Dangerously
Published on December 16, 2006
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In the past year, human-rights abuses have been exemplified by extrajudicial killings, intimidation and harassments targeting not just activists, lawyers, peasants, workers and poor Filipinos but those who try to protect them as well. And in Mindanao particularly, this campaign, which is supposedly part of the governments counter-insurgency efforts, benefits big and foreign business interests that massively dislocates poor people. Davao Todays Germelina A. Lacorte reports.
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[...] In the past year, human-rights abuses have been exemplified by extrajudicial killings, intimidation and harassments targeting not just activists, lawyers, peasants, workers and poor Filipinos but those who try to protect them as well. And in Mindanao particularly, this campaign, which is supposedly part of the governments counter-insurgency efforts, benefits big and foreign business interests that massively dislocates poor people. Davao Todays Germelina A. Lacorte reports.Read this story Filed under: STORIES, Blog [...]