Following the recent killing of a farmer couple and their two children in Negros Occidental, human rights group Karapatan on Saturday called on Congress and the CHR to investigate numerous other peasant killings in the region. | SAbrogarINQ
killing of a farmer couple and their two children
in Negros Occidental, human rights group Karapatan on Saturday called on Congress and the Commission on Human Rights to investigate numerous other peasant killings in the region. “While investigations on the murder of former Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo are ongoing, numerous cases involving peasants and farmworkers in Negros are left unaddressed. It is a pity that ordinary folks’ lives are seen as unimportant in the eyes of our legislators,” said Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabaym in a statement.into the recent killing of four members of the Fausto family in Himamaylan, Negros Occidental.
Palabay also raised that Negros continues to face “de facto martial rule” since the Marcos Jr. administration has continued the state counter-insurgency program first implemented in 2018 under Memorandum Order No. 32.
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