Tribal groups say HRVs to escalate with GMA?s 2-year counter-insurgency plan

Indigenous people communities raised alarm over the Arroyo government?s heightened counter-insurgency operations saying these will lead to the escalation of human rights violations from among their ranks. ?Indigenous peoples? communities…

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Anti-Insurgency Drive Shows GMA Priority of Political Survival — Ibon

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?s order to release P1-billion for anti-insurgency operations only illustrates her administration?s misplaced priorities of political survival over the people?s welfare, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation. Ibon…

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Arroyo’s ‘End-Game’ Strategy Spells Disaster to Civil Liberties and the Peace Process — IID

All avenues to the peaceful resolution of the armed conflicts that are now raging throughout the country must be pursued relentlessly more particularly by a government that pledged to root…

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