STOP MILITARIZATION. Tonying Flores of peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas slams the continued militarization in the countryside during a picket rally Thursday at the front door of La Breza Hotel in Quezon City where a meeting between the Commission on Human Rights, Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police is on-going. (davaotoday.com photo by Alex D. Lopez)
Peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas said declaring martial law in Mindanao, the second biggest island and the home to one-fourth of the country’s population will only put innocent civilians at risk of state perpetrated human rights violations.