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TABLE 1: Violation of Civil and Political Rights vi Introduction 1 TABLE 2: Victims of Extrajudicial Killing and Enforced Disappearance (by Region) 5 The Human Rights Situation under the Aquino Presidency 6 TABLE 3: Victims of EJK and ED (by Sector) 11 INFOGRAPHIC: Children 15 INFOGRAPHIC: Massacre 16 Massacre 17 Brutally Killed 19 Violations of International Humanitarian Law 24 TABLE 4: Victims of EJK and ED (by Affiliation) 26 INFOGRAPHIC: Political Prisoners 28 Political Prisoners 29 TABLE 5: Political Prisoners 34 Crimes vs. communities: communities suffer 2015 KARAPATAN Year-end Report from the AFP’s maelstrom of war 35 on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines Bombing 36 The role of paramilitary groups: AFP’s surrogates 43 Torture 46 INFOGRAPHIC: Rape 48 Photo Credits: Rape 49 anakbayansv.org, bulatlat.com, humanrightsphilippines.net Desaparecidos 51 Acronyms 54 Violation of Civil and Political Rights TABLE 1 under the Noynoy Aquino Government July 2010 to December 2015

No. of VIOLATIONS Victims Extrajudicial killing 307 Enforced disappearance 30 fter Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s nine-year rule Torture 215 characterized by state Rape 11 terror, political repression, corruption andA economic exploitation, Benigno Frustrated extrajudicial killing 566 Simeon Aquino III was catapulted to Illegal arrest without detention 903 power buoyed by his parents’ laurels and by giving false hopes to a people Illegal arrest and detention 501 hankering for change. Illegal search and seizure 272 By December 2015, five years and six months after, Aquino leaves a legacy Physical assault and injury 556 of unbridled crimes of repression, of Forced eviction and demolition 11,734 fascist attacks, of plunder, of corruption, of exploitation of the poor, of criminal Violation of domicile 1,011 negligence, of puppetry to imperialist dictates, Destruction of property 3,956 of treachery and the subversion of the will of the nation, cloaked in deceptive trimmings of 934 Divestment of property “tuwid na daan” (righteous path), “bayanihan” Forced evacuation 105,616 (mutual help) and so-called development acceleration. Threat/harassment/intimidation 198,214 Indiscriminate firing 89,417 Enough of the Atrocious Regime Forced/fake surrender 317 In his inaugural speech on June 30, 2010, BS Aquino said, “There can be no reconciliation without justice. When we Forced labor/involuntary servitude 69 allow crimes to go unpunished, we give content to their occurring over and Use of civilians in police and/or military operations over again.” 1,830 as guides and/or shield Yet, all through his five and a half years as president, atrocities were committed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines against the people “over Use of schools, medical, religious 75,137 and over again” under Oplan Bayanihan, without let-up, and with gross and other public places for military purpose brazenness, ferocity and impunity. Sadly, the onslaught became predict- Restriction or violent dispersal of mass actions, able. From Aquino’s fifth day in power, when Fernando Baldomero fell, the 24,015 public assemblies and gatherings victims of political killings rose to 307; with 566 other victims who survived the killings. 2015 KARAPATAN Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

No one has been convicted and relatives of the victims, and not only miserably in uplifting the lives of BS Aquino’s regime bred enor- brought to justice. did the Aquino government fail to the poor majority of the people, mous and appalling corruption in In the first six months of the BS implement the law, it continued to pushing them deeper in abject government for the congressional Aquino presidency, it registered 41 disregard it as cases of enforced dis- poverty. Landlessness continues as and presidential pork that was used victims of extrajudicial killings, four appearances persisted. epitomized by the situation of the to oil its killing machine by spending victims of enforced disappearance, In the case of the law on the farm-workers in the Cojuangco- billions of pesos to fund paramilitary 46 victims of torture, 73 arbitrary recognition and indemnification of Aquino owned Hacienda Luisita. groups, and engage in psy-war proj- arrests and detention, and four inci- martial law victims, the beneficia- Despite the Supreme Court deci- ects such as the PAMANA and the dents of massacre. ries, old and dying, still await the sion of distributing the hacienda Conditional Cash Transfer program BS Aquino will always be realization of their laborious efforts lands to the farmers, BS Aquino’s in a bid to coopt and silence the remembered for the gross violations for the full implementation of the family continues to circumvent the people. of human rights, for the 15 incidents law. Justice is indeed so elusive in the ruling through a stock certificate The Filipino people saw a of massacre under his regime, all time of Aquino. scheme, and through unending calloused unrepentant president commited with impunity. While the delays in the implementation of and commander-in-chief who led massacre was com- An end to Aquino’s ‘righteous the SC’s ruling. his forces to death as a result of mitted during the Arroyo regime, it path’ Meanwhile, urban poor an ill-planned and US-directed continues to be the symbol of how The events in 2015 speak dwellers, like those in San Roque in Mamasapano operations. Then, he unjust the justice system is in the volumes of Aquino’s brand of gover- City, are driven out of the washed his hands of the responsibil- country and how those in power nance in the past six years. city’s public places to some remote ity and resorted to the blame-game. make a travesty of it. He will always be As his term ends, BS Aquino resettlement sites without sources But for an American soldier Joseph remembered for his benevolence to will be remembered for his mockery of livelihood so that high rise Scott Pemberton who murdered the accused by rewarding them with of the poor by hosting an extrava- condominiums, business centers, a transgender whom he dated, BS higher ranks and positions while the gant APEC leaders’ meeting using malls and other projects under the Aquino would be accommodating victims unceasingly cry for justice a huge number of state forces as Public-Private Partnership are built and subservient to the Visiting Forces in unending trials. Jonas Burgos and security to prevent the Filipino for the rich and privileged. Agreement (VFA) and the Enhanced the Morong 43 cases against Generals people from showing the real situ- Indigenous people are dis- Defence Cooperation Agreement Eduardo Año and Aurelio Baladad ation in the country. He even hid placed from their ancestral lands (EDCA) which he signed without are still pending in the courts, while the beggars and street-dwellers as they are made targets of the BS the Senate ratifying the so-called both Año and Baladad are enjoying from view of the international del- Aquino regime’s counterinsurgency treaty - Pemberton, meanwhile, is in their promotion and better lives in egates and media by temporarily program that give way to govern- a US facility inside Camp Bonifacio their retirement. carting them away to some resorts ment-sponsored transnational and pending the resolution of a reduced Former General “The Butcher” and orphanages. During the Papal multinational mining corporations, case of homicide. Jovito Palparan, who is on trial for visit in the country, the poor or the agri-business and other “develop- BS Aquino’s regime was a sabo- kidnapping of two missing UP stu- so-called favored flock, were also ment” projects that cater to the teur of and a double-crosser in the dents Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen hidden from the Pope. needs of foreign big business. peace talks between the GPH and Empeño, remains in his army bar- As his term ends, he will be 2015 also underscored govern- the National Democratic Front – his racks, well-guarded and protected remembered for the unending price ment neglect of overseas Filipino government blatantly violated the in contrast to his victims. He ran hike of basic commodities, for the workers as exemplified in the case terms of signed agreements between as a senatorial candidate for the travails of the working classes from of Mary Jane Veloso, who almost the two parties by arresting peace 2016 elections. The Reyes broth- kilometric queues at the MRT/LRT lost her life from capital punish- consultants, charging them with ers Joel and Mario, both detained stations only to crash at track’s end, ment in Indonesia had the Filipino criminal offenses. He himself held in for the murder of broadcaster and for the “parking lot” that is EDSA people and the solidarity groups in contempt the ways of finding solu- environmentalist Dr. Gerry Ortega depicting the worst traffic situation Indonesia not interfered and took up tions through the peace process by were even allowed to seek govern- in the world, for his criminal neglect her cause. Workers who died in a fire refusing to look into the roots of the ment posts in in the 2016 of the victims of typhoons Pablo and at the Kentex factory showed how armed conflict in the country. elections. Yolanda. the BS Aquino regime was more con- An anti-enforced disappear- Desensitized by his own class cerned with the profits of capitalists Jail Aquino ance law was finally enacted after interests and that of his imperi- than with the right of workers to safe The words pahirap, korap, papet, years of arduous lobbying by the alist masters, BS Aquino failed working conditions. pasista (oppressive, corrupt, puppet, Back to HOME

2 3 fascist) are apt descriptions of the BS Aquino ends his term with BS Aquino and his regime. These a legacy of unsolved cases of human words capsulize what the BS Aquino rights violations, covered up cases of regime is to the Filipino people. graft and corruption, and of a total On December 5, 2015, rela- disregard to the plight of the toiling tives and victims of human rights masses—all symbolized by the violations gathered to raise the call blood-soaked ‘tuwid na daan’. to jail BS Aquino and to end his But the people have had enough TABLE 2 Victims of Extrajudicial Killing “righteous path” based on the grave and vowed to repudiate the ‘tuwid and Enforced Disappearance abuses and violations of human na daan,’ and all those who exalt and under the Noynoy Aquino Government rights committed against the vow to continue this blood-soaked July 2010 to December 2015 BY REGION people. On December 10, an image path. The people know that the path of “Noynoy in jail” was paraded to genuine freedom and democracy Extrajudicial Enforced during a protest rally to commemo- is not ‘tuwid’ (straight) but is pains- REGION Killing Disappearance rate International Human Rights takingly long and may be winding Day. The “Noynoy in jail” effigy as the poor and exploited majority, Ilocos 3 0 was a symbol of the people’s desire galvanized by their collective power, Cordillera Administrative Region 8 0 to see the real-life Aquino in jail as take the Herculean challenge and Valley 7 2 his term ends in June 2016. sow seeds for a better tomorrow. 13 1 National Capital Region 11 0 Southern Tagalog 22 4 Bicol 63 4 15 4 4 0 17 2 33 0 27 6 Socsksargen 7 2 Western Mindanao 25 1 Southern Mindanao 44 1 ARMM 8 3 TOTAL 307 30 Women 29 0 Organized 138 13

Relatives and victims of human rights violations raise the call to jail BS Aquino based on the grave human rights record.

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n June 30, 2016, Benigno Simeon Aquino III, the 15th president of the The fascist attacks against the AFP turns gun against civil- Government of the Philippines, steps down from Malacañang. Plagued as it is with cases of bureaucratic corruption, criminal negligence, inept people transitioned smoothly from the ians, activists; kills 307 Arroyo regime to the BS Aquino regime, leadership, sell-out of the nation’s sovereignty, the BS Aquino presidency also Five days after BS Aquino swore O having shared the same AFP generals leaves behind an atrocious record of human in and vowed to be the servant of who were at the helm of an identical rights violations, which he continues to his Filipino “bosses” and to render counterinsurgency program –- Arroyo’s ignore to this day. justice where injustice was commit- OBL or Oplan Bantay Laya I and II, ted, Councilor Fernando Baldomero, and BS Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan. BS Bayan Muna coordinator and Selda Aquino had, in fact, continued Arroyo’s member in was killed on OBL for the first six months of his presi- July 5. Four days later, 78-year-old dency before renaming it to Oplan Pascual Guevarra, a peasant leader of Bayanihan in January 2011. a local affiliate of the KMP or Peasant Learning from his predeces- Movement of the Philippines was sor’s all-out combat operations, shot dead in his home. His 18-year-old catchphrases such as “whole of grandson survived the shooting. nation”, “people-centered”, and The trend continued and by the “respect for human rights” adorned end of BS Aquino’s first six months, Oplan Bayanihan, supposedly to dif- there were already 41 people killed ferentiate it from the much-hated and four individuals abducted, who Oplan Bantay Laya 1 and 2. This were never surfaced. There were also kind of language and the seemingly four incidents of massacres with 13 untarnished image of BS Aquino as people killed in those six months. a son of “democracy icons”, initially made Oplan Bayanihan tolerable to Indigenous people killed some. Indigenous people are deliber- It was an altogether different ately Oplan Bayanihan targets, and story in the countryside, among the not what military parlance describes peasants and indigenous people who as being “caught in the crossfire”. live in resource-rich lands that are Out of the 307 victims of extra- considered by the government as judicial killings under the BS Aquino the “guerilla zones” of the CPP-NPA- regime, 82 were indigenous people, 69 NDF. The brutality of government’s of them were Lumad. military policy, particularly of the The victims of the first massacre regime’s Oplan Bayanihan, was bared under the Aquino regime were indig- to the peasants and indigenous people enous people. They were Dumagats in since Day 1. Montalban, who were fired at by That peasants and indigenous four men aboard two motorcycles. The people inhabit remote communities victims were Demelita Largo, Benita make them a target in the govern- San Jose, 31, and Eduard Navarte, 37 ment’s counterinsurgency program who were shot at and died instantly. that seeks out armed revolutionary (Details on page 17.) groups who also live in the moun- Most of the killings of indig- tains. And this meant the successive enous people were committed killings, massacres, and bombing by paramilitary groups who were of communities that led to forc- recruited by the military among IP ible evacuations were as intense ranks. Such was the case of Manhiloy and destructive as they were in past Mantog, 35, a Manobo and a member regimes. of Kahugpungan Alang sa Kalambuan

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(KASAKA) who was killed by Bagani entry of the company into ancestral Later, the Igorot of the Cordillera areas, specifically those affected by Lubog paramilitary members Crisanto lands. and peasants from Northern Luzon typhoons Pablo and Yolanda. Banggaan, Sadlong Manlangit, and On September 15, 2015 at 7 a.m., marched with them on the streets Village leader Cristina Jose, 40, Jemar Banggaan on September 8, Obet Pabiana, a Banwaon Manobo and of Manila. They stayed in makeshift was killed on March 4, 2013, three 2013 in Purok 1, Barangay Kasapa, a member of the Lumad organization tents. They landed on the news for months after typhoon Pablo hit the Loreto, . Mantog was at Tagdumahan, was traversing a trail in several days. Their calls trended in Davao provinces in December 2012. a store with his uncle, Datu Ambalan Sitio Balaudo, St. Peter, Malaybalay social media. Everyone felt their strug- Nine months later, farmer Pedro Tinga Mantog, chieftain of Manobo tribe City, going to Agusan del gle and joined them—the church was killed on December 6, 2013. Both and three other companions when Sur when he was shot by Mankolobi people, schools, students, workers, were involved in a series of protests Bagani Lubog Force members fired on Bocalas and Manlumakad Bocalas, artists, and professionals—except the exposing corruption, inefficiency them. Mantog died instantly. Guns of both members of Dela Mance para- BS Aquino government. and discrimination in the distribu- the other two members of the Lubog military group. On the same day, at The government and its armed tion of relief goods among survivors Bagani group misfired, missing their around 1 p.m. in Bayo, Sitio Balaudo, forces continued, if not intensified, of typhoon Pablo. No one was pros- targets. Olaking Olinan, 15, a minor was also their “campaign to kill” the Lumad ecuted for the crime. Bagani-Lubog Force paramili- shot dead. Olinan was extracting fiber and other indigenous people defend- Before Jose was killed, she had tary, attached to the 26th IBPA, was from abaca leaves. The places of both ing their right to ancestral land and exposed the military’s control over also responsible for the killing of peas- incidents were connected by the same self- determination. the distribution of relief goods in ants Benjamin Planos and Gabriel set of footsteps, which made leaders of her town, and the use of red-tagging Typhoon survivors, rehab workers Alinao. This paramilitary group was the community believe that Pabiana‘s tactics to deny the typhoon victims established by Loreto Mayor Dario killers were the same people who shot One of the worse crimes the BS relief goods. Jose was tagged by Otaza, whose death in October 2015 Olinan. Aquino government had committed the 67th IBPA commander Lt. Col. was owned up by the New People’s Manlumakad Bocales of the Dela against the Filipino people was its Krishnamurti Mortela as “councilor Army. Mance paramilitary group figured negligence of the plight of the poor of the NPA”. She was a subject of The case of the Matigsalog again in the death of Mankombete majority who were victims of super military harassment. Cristina Jose tribal chieftain Datu Jimmy Liguyon Mariano, 48, who was shot and typhoons that hit the country. was shot dead by unidentified men exemplified yet another trend: that hacked to death. (Details on page 22.) The government was not only aboard a motorcycle. Jose was a leader of silencing those who opposed the The incident happened on October inept in preparing for the effects of of Barug Katawhan (People Stand Up), incursions into ancestral lands of 27, 2015, more than a month after the natural calamities but also in attend- an organization of victims of typhoon transnational corporations such as killing of Pabiana and Olinan. ing to the needs of the victims—from Pablo in that led the mining companies, and of various The day before Mariano’s death, relief to rehabilitation. The govern- protest at the DSWD office in Davao so-called government development the Manilakbayan ng Mindanao del- ment preferred to allow the relief City. projects. egation arrived in Metro Manila on goods to rot instead of being distrib- Tinga, 57, a Mansaka tribal Liguyon was vice-chairperson of October 26. The 700-strong delega- uted to the victims in far-flung areas. leader like Jose, was killed in a military the Lumad group KASILO and baran- tion called on Metro Manila residents The relief goods were used as leverage operation led by elements of the 71st gay captain of Dao, San Fernando, regarding their campaign to stop the to gain further political patronage and Battalion Alpha Company-Philippine Bukidnon. He was shot dead on killing of Lumads perpetrated by the as a source of corruption while reha- Army. He was among the leaders of March 2, 2012 in his house by para- AFP and its paramilitary forces under bilitation came in slow, leaving the Indug Kautawan, a local affiliate of military group New Indigenous their commander-in-chief BS Aquino. victims fending for themselves. Barug Katawhan led by Jose. People’s Army Reform (NIPAR) led by Survivors, relatives of victims, The government would be crim- Another member of Barug Alde Salusad a.k.a. Butsoy. Salusad was and community members all point inally liable for the plight of typhoon Katawhan was killed one-and-a-half also a member of paramilitary group to the BS Aquino regime’s responsibil- victims. Worse, it had punished those years later on June 25, 2015. Felix TRIOM Force reportedly created by ity for the grave crimes and atrocities who survived and who asserted their Jr. “Ricky” Basig, 41, was shot dead Vice Mayor Levy Edma and backed by committed against them. They are rights to access relief and rehabilita- by six unnamed soldiers of the 10th Lt. Fallar of the 8th IBPA. After the kill- determined to seek justice and defend tion support from the government. Infantry Division led by a certain ings, Salusad was heard bragging,“I their land and rights, and their chil- Karapatan documented five Pfc. Maca. Basig is a resident of Brgy. killed the captain because he refused dren’s future. incidents of extrajudicial killings Mahan-ub, Baganga, Davao Oriental. to give (the mining company) The Lumad went to Manila for involving leaders of people’s orga- Less than a month before the killing, SANMATRIDA a certification.” The a 30-day journey to cry out for justice nizations working for the relief and Basig already reported to Karapatan- certification would have allowed the and peace in their ancestral lands. rehabilitation of typhoon devastated Southern Mindanao that he had been

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8 9 a subject of military red-tagging; he farmer-beneficiaries in the upland was being accused as a member of barangays of Carigara when two men the NPA. The military accused him of riding a new blue motorcycle without informing the NPA about the combat a plate number, shot and hit him in operations of the AFP in the commu- the arm and chest. He died on the nity which led to an ambush by the spot. NPA on May 22, 2015. Two were killed Two weeks earlier, another relief on the AFP side. worker, Gildegardo Hernandez, was The same red-tagging tactics gunned down on August 6 along the were used by then “rehabilitation Candelaria-San Juan Diversion Road TABLE 3 Victims of Extrajudicial Killing czar” for Yolanda stricken areas Gen. in Candelaria, Quezon province. and Enforced Disappearance Panfilo Lacson, against the typhoon Hernandez was working on under the Noynoy Aquino Government victims. On February 20, 2014 Lacson the preparations for a relief opera- July 2010 to December 2015 BY SECTOR branded the protesting Yolanda tion for Typhoon Glenda survivors victims as “communist pawns”. The scheduled the following day, August Extrajudicial Enforced Yolanda victims were in Manila to call 7. The relief mission was sponsored REGION Killing Disappearance the attention of national agencies in- by the Southern Tagalog People Church 3 0 Entrepreneur 6 1 Environmentalist 6 0 Fisherfolk 6 0 Government employee 8 0 Indigenous people 86 2 Minor 28 2 Peasant 283 23 Teacher 2 1 Urban poor 13 0 Human rights worker 5 0 charge of relief and rehabilitation in Corps, Kalipunan ng Samahang Worker 15 1 Yolanda-hit areas in the Visayas. Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalugan Youth & students 9 1 Six months later, Jefferson and the Pamatid-CQ, a peasant orga- Custodio, a relief worker and member nization led by Hernandez. A man on Health 1 0 of the Municipal Farmers Association a motorcycle shot Hernandez who Moro 8 2 in Carigara (MUFAC) was shot dead immediately fell on the ground. He in August 23, 2014 at Brgy. Punong, died on the spot, sustaining gunshot Transport 11 1 Carigara, by two men on motor- wounds on his head, chest and face. cycle. The perpetrators wore bonnets. The red-tagging tactics covered The MUFAC was involved in up government’s negligence of the the rehabilitation of communi- plight of the typhoon survivors. ties affected by typhoon Yolanda, Human rights workers and advocates providing farmers with shelter materials, seeds and seedlings, and On August 19, 2015, spokesper- farm tools. Custodio was at Brgy. son of Karapatan- Teodoro Punong to deliver farm tools to the Escanilla, 63, was gunned down

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in his home in Tagdon, Barcelona, town of Barcelona. Escanilla was already market when gunmen shot him at St. Peter, Malaybalay City to gather Sorsogon. The BS Aquino regime had asleep when his house was stoned, close range. He succumbed to two abaca fiber. He was working about five been hunting human rights workers prompting him to look through the gunshot wounds in the head, and meters away from Mandi. At around like “Ka Tudoy” Escanilla. He was window. Two gunmen shot Escanilla was pronounced dead on arrival at 2 p.m., Mandi heard two gunshots. among the four documented victims using an M16 rifle and a .45 caliber the Western Visayas Medical Center. He called out his brother’s name but of extrajudicial killings among rights handgun. His body bore two gunshot Capalla, 65, was also a member of the he did not get a reply. After a few workers, the first was SELDA member wounds in the stomach, one in the Board of Directors of the Panay Fair minutes, he checked on his brother Coun. Fernando Baldomero. left shoulder and another in his right Trade Center (PFTC) and its former and found him on the ground lifeless. Escanilla had been a human cheek. The two gunmen, who were wth manager. The PFTC, a member organi- Mandi ran to get help but the com- rights worker since 1998 as part of eight other men, got away using three zation of the International Federation munity members were only able to the Sorsogon People’s Organization motorcycles and one tricycle. of Alternative Trade, exports certified- retrieve Jonathan’s body the follow- (SPO), a community-based human Six months before he was killed, organic muscovado sugar and banana ing day. rights organization in the province. a resident of Barangay Tagdon where chips. Being in the Order of Battle of When the tribal leaders inves- He joined Karapatan-Sorsogon in Escanilla resided was arrested and the 3rd IDPA, surveillance and harass- tigated the vicinity where Olaking 2006 as its spokesperson, and for 10 tortured. The man was later offered ment against Capalla continued even was shot, they found footstep marks years he was anchor of a local radio PhP 50,000 and a .45 caliber gun by after his release. The red baiting and that led them to the site where Obet Sgt. Rene Enteria of the 31st Infantry tagging of Capalla by the military did Pabiana was gunned down at around Battalion- to kill not stop. 7 a.m. on the same day. The distance Escanilla. The man, whose name between the two sites was only about Children cannot be disclosed for security pur- 10 meters. poses, immediately reported the There is nothing more harrow- Obet Pabiana, 30, was gunned while There is nothing incident to Karapatan-Sorsogon. ing than seeing a child suffer and crossing a trail in Sitio Balaudo with In 2014, two human rights die in the name of the government’s five others. Pabiana was shot directly more harrowing workers were killed by State secu- counterinsurgency program. on his chest and on the right side rity forces. William Bugatti of the There were at least five minors of his abdomen. Before he died, he than seeing a Cordillera Human Rights Alliance- reported victims of extrajudicial was able to tell his companions that Karapatan was killed in on killing in 2015 alone; their ages Mankolobi Bocalas and Manlumakad March 5, 2014; and SELDA member ranging from 13 to 17 years old. child suffer and Bocalas fired at him. The community Romeo Capalla, 65, was gunned down During BS Aquino’s years in power, members believed that both kill- on March 15, 2014 at the Oton public at least 28 children were killed in a die in the name of ings were committed by Mankolobi market in . On June 20, 2012, senseless implementation of Oplan Bocalas and Manlumakad Bocalas of Romualdo Palispis was killed by ele- Bayanihan. The youngest victim was the government’s the Dela Mance paramilitary group ments of the 7th ID in Maria Asmayra Usman, a four-year-old who attached to the 4th IDPA. counterinsurgency town, Aurora. He was an officer of the was shot while asleep in an evacuation Justice and Peace Action Group (JPAG) center at the Mahad Norul Ittihad in Emer Somina, 17, and Norman program. based in the province. Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao. Samia, 14, were among the five Bugatti received threats to his She was hit in the right side of her killed in the massacre on August 18, life from State security forces and their stomach. The bullets came from a 2015 at Brgy. Mendis, Pangantucan, agents since the start of the imple- nearby military detachment. Bukidnon. Somina and Samia were mentation of Oplan Bayanihan. The at the house of Herminio Samia, 70, threat heightened after the 5th ID The five victims in 2015 were: with Jobert Samia and “Junjun” for program “Pamana ng Lahi” (Legacy of and the 86th IB, came out with their Jonathan Olinan (previously lunch. Herminio Samia was Norman’s our people). Since 2003, Escanilla had Target List in Tinoc in October 2012. reported as Olaking Olinan), 15, was grandfather and Emer’s uncle. Except been under surveillance and had been Bugatti was listed as #21 in the list in killed by members of the Dela Mance for the 15-year-old “Junjun”, all five constantly receiving threats from the a roster of 28 people tagged as brains, paramilitary group-ALAMARA on were shot dead when members of military. In 2011, Escanilla was falsely members, and supporters of the New September 25, 2015 in Brgy. St. Peter, the 3rd Company-1st Special Forces charged with frustrated murder and People’s Army. Malaybalay City, Bukidnon. Battalion ordered them to get out of damage to property in a supposed raid On March 15, 2014, Romeo Jonathan was with his brother the house and shot them one after the conducted at a police station in the Capalla was at the Oton public Mandi Olinan in Bayo, Sitio Balaudo, other. “Junjun” was able to run and Back to HOME

12 13 Joven Cabe (9 y/o) 5 Arnel Luao (14 y/o) hide behind boulders, which became sleeping. The men threatened to burn Sunshine Jabinez (7 y/o) his cover until he could get away to the house if Almosara refused to guide Christian Roy Noceto (15 y/o) another uncle’s house to inform them them to the house of Jomar Escorel, Michael Mancera (10 y/o) on what he saw. Almosara’s neighbor. When they Richard Mancera (7 y/o) Rodilyn Aguirre (6 y/o) Traumatized, the 15-year-old reached the house, the men ordered Manuel Pamintuan (14 y/o) witness had not been able to talk for Escorel to come out. As soon as Escorel Gerald Oreza (4 y/o) several months. was outside, the men shot him in the Gaily Miraato (6 y/o) The soldiers apparently came head, missing the two-year-old son Dada Botawan Haron (5 y/o) from a military operation against Escorel was carrying. Then, Almosara Asmayra Usman (4 y/o) the NPA as residents heard gunshots was also shot. Reports said Almosara Jordan Manda (11 y/o) in the nearby forest before the mas- sustained 17 gunshot wounds while Ronald Malley (16 y/o) sacre happened. The following day, Escorel had eight gunshot wounds. John Khali Lagrimas (14 y/o) 27 residents, including a barangay The two were peasant activists. Before John Mark Capion (7 y/o) councilor, checked on Herminio’s the killing, a number of residents Jordan "Pap" Capion (13 y/o) place, and saw about 22 soldiers. The suspected as NPA members or sympa- Roque Antivo (8 y/o) soldiers ordered the villagers to line thizers were summoned, harassed and Orlando Colot Jr. (4 y/o) up and took pictures of them. The vil- threatened by members of the 9th Victor Freay (16 y/o) lagers were also warned not to look at IBPA. 2010 - DECEMBER 20 1 JUNE Ernesto “Oto” Precioso (17 y/o) the soldiers’ faces when they collected Judah Dagansan (17 y/o) Sarah Pananggulon, 8, was among the dead bodies. Emer Somina’s body Sarah Pananggulon Mamasalaga (8 y/o) the eight civilian casualties in the Fiel Casas (17 y/o) was found near the house’s door while Mamasapano carnage in January 2015 Ryan Almosara (17 y/o) Norman Samia was found a few steps in Sitio Inugog, Brgy. Tukanalipao, Emer Somina (17 y/o) away. Norman Samia’s ears were cut Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Sarah Norman Samia (14 y/o) off and his jaw was broken. Aside from was hit on the side of her body while Jonathan Olaking Olinan (15 y/o) gunshot wounds, the remains of the her parents were also wounded older men including that of the sep- because of the stray bullets. Sarah’s tuagenarian Herminio Samia, were mother, Samra, was grazed with disfigured. children bullets in her face while Toot, Sarah’s Ryan Almosara, 17, was gunned father, was hit in the right shoulder. 28 down at around 4 a.m. on May 14, Sarah was a deaf-mute. It was only 2015 by men believed to be members after the gunfire that her mother out of of the 9th IBPA. Almosara was a resi- noticed her wound. Help came only dent of Kalawanan, Brgy. Cantorna, the next day. It was also then they Monreal in . The men, learned that it was the men from the armed with M-16 rifles, forced open PNP’s Special Action Force (SAF) who Almosara house where he and his indiscriminately fired at the commu- wife and two-month-old son were nity and at their house. 30are victims7 of extrajudicial killings

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Oct 11, 2010 DARAGA Massacre 17 MASSACRES Nov 15, 2010 KANANGA Massacre via #DaangMatuwid *Total number of incidents from July 1, 2010 to December 31, 2015 Feb 4, 2011 LIBMANAN Massacre The September 1, 2015 Lianga said that prior to the killing, the massacre brought before the public police told residents to just ignore the BS Aquino regime’s campaign the gunshots when they hear them. Feb 25, 2012 MANCERA Massacre BAAY-LICUAN, of butchery, especially in the com- Navarte, Largo and San Jose had munities considered as hotbeds of been tagged as NPA members or sup- the rebel movement led by the CPP- porters. Navarte was a member of the Oct 18, 2012 CAPION Massacre NPA-NDF. The manner by which Katribu Partylist that was red-tagged Datu Juvello Sinzo and Lumad leader by the military during the 2010 MONTALBAN, RIZAL Dionel Campos were killed was akin elections. May 13, 2013 LABO, to a public execution and the brutal Also in 2010, on September 7, BAYOG Massacre CARAMOAN, LIBMANAN, CAMARINES SUR slaying of Alcadev Executive Director at around 9 a.m., neighbors Vicente DARAGA, Emerito Samarca whose throat was Flores, Richard Oliva, and Melecio February 18, 2014 MOBO, MASBATE slit, showed the barbarity of the mili- Monacillo agreed to go hunting Massacre USON, MASBATE tary that horrified, the public. in the forested area in Sitio Irong- KANANGA, LEYTE The September 1 massacre was irong at the boundary of the villages Mar 3, 2014 among the 17 incidents of massacres of Mapuyo and Mabuhay, Mobo, LIGIW Massacre DALAGUETE, CEBU under the BS Aquino regime. In 2015 Masbate. Melecio‘s son, Jonathan alone, there were five documented Monacillo, 21, tagged along with Mar 22, 2014 TAGALOAN, cases of massacres, four of which them. At noon, the four passed by the CARAMOAN Massacre LIANGA, MALAYBALAY, BUKIDNON happened in Mindanao and one in house of Eliseo and Rosie Albao. At BAYOG, PANGANTUCAN, BUKIDNON PAQUIBATO DISTRICT, DAVAO CITY Masbate. the time, only Rosie and her children Mar 29, 2015 There were four documented were at home. Eliseo was at work. The TAGALOAN Massacre KIBLAWAN, cases of massacres on the first six four, tired from hunting, stopped months of the BS Aquino regime. over Eliseo’s house and fell asleep Jun 14, 2015 The first documented case happened right away. After about 30 minutes, PAQUIBATO Massacre PER REGION as early as July 19, 2010, or 19 days elements of the 9th IBPA based CORDILLERA 1 SOUTHERN TAGALOG 1 after BS Aquino assumed the presi- in Brgy. Armenia, Uson, Masbate Aug 3, 2015 BICOL 6 dency. On that day, three Dumagat stormed the Albao house and shot USON Massacre CENTRAL VISAYAS 1 from Montalban, Rizal were killed the farmers who were asleep. Flores, EASTERN VISAYAS 1 by elements of the 16th Infantry Melecio and Jonathan Monacillo NORTHERN MINDANAO 3 Aug 18, 2015 SOCSKSARGEN 1 Battalion-2nd Infantry Division of died instantly. Oliva, wounded from PANGANTUCAN Massacre CARAGA 1 the Philippine Army. Those killed the first volley of gunfire, was able SOUTHERN MINDANAO 1 were Benita San Jose, 31; Demelita to jump out of the window, but was WESTERN MINDANAO 1 Sept 1, 2015 Largo, age unknown; and, Edward sprayed with bullets by the soldiers LIANGA Massacre TOTAL INDIVIDUALS 58 Navarte, 37. They all died on the outside the house. Rosie and her TOTAL MINORS 7 spot – they were shot by four men children, shocked by the assault, Sept 27, 2015 on board two motorcycles. A witness ran as fast as they could away from MALAYBALAY Massacre #EndIMPUNITY #StopTheKillings Back to HOME For more info visit www.karapatan.org their house. Eliseo heard the gunfire and ordered the village officials to and saw a cloud of smoke near their retrieve the bodies of “four New house. He ran quickly home to check People‘s Army (NPA)” – they claimed and was shocked to see the carnage. they had an encounter. The soldiers Flores‘s genitalia and abdomen were supposedly in hot pursuit of the were shattered by bullets; his intes- NPA who had allegedly ambushed tines were spilled on the floor and policemen in another village on May his hand was almost severed from 31, 2010. his arm. One of Melecio‘s shoulders It was also within the first was shattered and he bore gunshot six months of the Aquino govern- wounds in the leg. Jonathan had ment, on November 15, 2010 that gunshot wounds on his back, on his botanist Leonardo Co, 56, with jaw, and on top of his skull. Eliseo Julius Borromeo, 50, and Sofronio found Richard’s body outside of the Cortez, 52, were massacred by ele- house with his skull smashed from ments of the 19th Infantry Battalion the bullet wounds and his body of the 8th Infantry Division of the riddled with bullets. The soldiers left Philippine Army in Upper Mahi-aw, the area and went to Brgy. Sta. Maria Brgy. Tongonan, Kananga, Leyte.

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This is not for the faint-hearted. Pulling the trigger of the AFP standard- issued-guns against their target isn’t enough, State perpetrators had to torture, disfigure their victims’ bodies, even decapitate or bury them in shallow graves. Out of the 307 victims of extrajudicial killings, Karapatan documented 26 victims of brutal slayings, showing the monstrosity of the BS Aquino regime. The AFP‘s grotesque manner of eliminating their targets, civilians and children alike, reinforced the devil’s latest image who wore combat boots, camouflage uniforms, and guns instead of bearing a giant fork and having a long tail and fangs. Back to HOME

18 Elmer Valdez, 33 Ricardo Sr. Tuazon, 44 Sta. Lucia, City, Agusan D el Norte Rene Quirante, 48 10Sep2010 27Apr2014 Guihulngan, After three days of enforced disappearance, Body riddled with bullets, 01Oct2010 he was found dead with a broken skull, face shattered due to gunshot Endric Calago, 47 shattered mouth, gunshot wounds in the Beaten in front of his children, buttocks patched with packaging tape Rosalie Calago, 45 then shot twice in the head Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental 24May2015 Arnel Luao, 14 Fermin Ligiw, 29 Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur Husband and wife were shot, Eddie Ligiw,45 Licuan, Abra then burned inside their house 23Apr2011 Licuben Ligiw,Baay-03Mar2014 77 Rudy Dejos, 50 Shot by a shotgun, then hacked using a bolo owned by his Buried together, their bodies Rudyric Dejos,avao del 26 Sur father who was also killed piled on top of the other all in fetal position; 27Feb2011 Sta. Cruz, D their hands tied and mouth gagged Rope marks and gunshot wounds Tortured then shot to death, were found in the remains of head smashed, face mutilated Jomar Escorel, 29 both men; the hands and nails Genesis Ambason, 23 of Rudy were smashed Ryan Almosara, 17 San Luis, Agusan del Sur 13Sep2012 Monreal, Masbate (Jomar) Shot in the head while 14May2015 carrying his two-year old son, sustained 8 gunshot wounds (Ryan) Tortured then killed, Jovito Pajanustan, 45 sustained 17 gunshot wounds Catubig, Northern 25Nov2011 Ely Oguis, 60 (Norman) Mutilated body, his ears cut off and his jaws broken Found buried in fetal position; (Herminio) Shattered abdominal area body tied with nylon rope, Guinobatan, Albay due to gunshots head wrapped in plastic, 11Nov2012 broken skull, hack wounds Norman Samia, 14 in the right chest Beheaded; the decapitated head was found more than a meter away from his body Herminio Samia, 70 Emerito Samarca, 54 Pangantucan, Bukidnon Martin Copino Sr., 50 Dionel Campos, 41 18Aug2015 Jemson Copino, 22 Datu Juvello Sinzo, 69 San Fernando, Camarines Sur Datu Anting Freay, 60 Lianga, Surigao del Sur 28Feb2013 Victor Freay, 16 1Sep2015 Found dead after a week of disappearance, Mankombite Mariano, 48 hands tied at the back; Kiblawan, Davao del Sur (Martin) rope found around his neck, 23Aug2013 Cabanglasan, Bukidnon crushed head, one eye missing iddled with bullets, (Datu Anting) R (Emerito) Hogtied, body bore gunshot 27Oct2015 (Jemson) crushed jaws and mouth gunshot wound in the and stab wounds, his throat was right cheek and neck slit open from ear to ear; Shot then hacked in the head, (Dionel) Fired at close range, chest and leg (Victor) Sustained 18 gunshot wounds, abdominal area shattered head blown off, publicly executed (Juvello) Broken arms due to beating, publicly executed B r u tall y killed 2015 KARAPATAN Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

Lumad activist Mankombite were never found. Oguis’ body also shallow grave, which was half a atop each other. They, too, were sus- Mariano, 48, was the latest victim bore five gunshot wounds in the meter deep, half a meter wide, and pected as NPA sympathizers and of brutal slayings by the Dela Mance chest, which the autopsy report said one meter long. Apparently, his body before they were brutally killed, they paramilitary group/ALAMARA in damaged his lungs and heart. The was forced into the small space as he were subjected to threats and harass- Cabanglasan, Bukidnon. On October decapitated head had signs of being was in a fetal position. A nylon rope ments by the military, specifically by 27, 2015 Mariano was shot, then hit with a hard object. was tied around his body, while a the men of the 41st IBPA. hacked in the head, chest and leg. He On the night of his death, separate rope tied both his arms in On May 24, 2015, the Calago was on his way to pick durian fruit Oguis had a drink with a fellow front of his body and another around couple, Endric, 47, and Rosalie, 45, along with 16 others, 12 of them chil- councilman Juanito Sumaupan and his neck. His neck appeared to have were shot dead, then burned by ele- dren, when the De la Mance group neighbor Rodrigo Mirabate after been hacked several times as there ments of the 11th Infantry Battalion, fired at them. Mariano was hit in his usual after-work home visits. was only the skin holding the head Philippine Army in Guihulngan, the left chest and left hip. Mariano’s The detachment commander of the and the body. His skull was broken, Negros Oriental. Relatives of the grandson Ryan Olimbayan, 10, 2nd Infantry Battalion Cpl. Gilbert his ribs fractured. There were also couple who were also their neighbor was hit in the left leg but was able Ramos and another soldier known hacked wounds in the upper right said they heard Rosalie shouting for to run away and hide. But, he saw only as “Patoy” joined the two. The chest and stomach; and his ribs were help because the soldiers were in their how Manlumakad Bocalas of the soldiers left 30 minutes earlier than fractured. On November 25, 2011, house. Rosalie’s plea was followed by Dela Mance group approached and Oguis. At around 11p.m., some of witnesses saw the soldiers of the 34th gunshots and the next thing they hacked his grandfather in the head, the residents heard gunfire. At 1:00 Infantry Brigade in Pajanustan‘s saw was the couple’s house on fire. left shoulder, and left thigh. Ryan a.m., on November 12, village coun- farm. That day, he failed to return The following morning, the couple’s survived the attack. cilor Minda Sumaupan and three home. His remains were found three daughter found Endric and Rosalie As early as 2010 there had been others found Oguis’s headless body. days later, on November 28, near his dead and burned. There were empty an indication that the brutality Conflicting statements were issued farm. shells of the M-203 grenade launcher of the armed forces would remain by the Philippine Army units fol- The Ligiw family—Licuben and M-16 armalite rifle at the scene of unabated under a president who lowing Oguis’ death. The 2nd IBPA and sons, Eddie and Fermin—were the crime. Endric Calago was elected claimed to respect human rights. said Oguis was killed in an encoun- similarly found in a shallow grave officer of a local peasant organiza- The first documented case ter between the New People‘s Army in Domenglay Baay-Licuan, Abra on tion while Rosalie had been involved of extrajudicial killing where the and the military; while Col. Ricardo March 8, 2014. The three were buried in community health service. victim was brutally killed was on Visaya, then commander of the September 10, 2010. Elmer Valdez, 901st Brigade, said Oguis was a tax 33, of Sta. Lucia, Ilocos Sur, was collector of the NPA, which may found dead after three days of disap- have killed Oguis for not remitting pearance. He had a broken skull; his collections. Another military spokes- mouth was shattered with only two person, Maj. Angelo Guzman of the teeth remaining. His back was full of 9th Infantry Division, said Oguis scratches and abrasions, signs that was a coconut plantation owner and he was dragged. He sustained several was killed by the NPA for not paying gunshot wounds in the buttocks taxes. which were patched with packaging Oguis was a member of the tape. Valdez was a victim of the ele- Albay People’s Organization, a ments of the 50th Infantry Battalion community-based human rights who were from a combat operation organization. He was among the in a nearby village. documented victims of military Ely Oguis, 60, was found dead harassment and threats. On August and decapitated in Brgy. Cabaloaon, 21, 2011, soldiers known only as Guinobatan, Albay at around 1:00 Ontolan and Amolar invited Oguis to a.m. on November 12, 2012. His their detachment for interrogation. head was found more than a meter In the Visayas, Jovito away from the body, almost buried Pajanustan of Brgy. Osang, Catubig, in mud. His ears were hacked off and was found in a

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22 23 Documented Violations of International NPA red fighters Tortured, killed, Humanitarian Law 17 mutilated

June 28, 2015, Paquibato District, Davao City Perpetrators: 69th IBPA Vanessa Limpag Leoncio ‘Ka Parago’ Pitao Violations of the people’s civil The killing of NPA com- and political rights happen in the mander Leoncio “Ka Parago” Pitao of Between September 4-6, 2014 , Lacub, Abra course of implementing the State’s Mindanao and NPA medic Vanessa Perpetrators: 41st IBPA counterinsurgency program in “Ka Kyle” Limpag is not something Pedring Banggao pursuit of the New People’s Army, the AFP should be proud of. If at all, Robert Beyao and with the aim to neutralize the it’s another “medalla de horror” in the Arnold Jaramillo revolutionary movement led by the AFP’s long list of violations of human Brandon Magranga Communist Party of the Philippines rights and international humanitar- RECCA Noelle MONTE - New People’s Army - National ian law. Robert Perez Democratic Front of the Philippines. Based on reports from Ricardo Reyes War is bloody and costly as it is, Karapatan-Southern Mindanao but international humanitarian laws Region, Pitao was undergoing (IHL) exist to “regulate the conduct medical treatment when the 69th October 10, 2011, Tineg, Abra of war” and ensure that the rights of IBPA caught up with him. Pitao was Perpetrators: 41st IBPA both the civilians and combatants already wounded and NPA medic Miguel Anggaboy are guaranteed. Vanessa “Ka Kyle” Limpag was Dorothy Ating The Comprehensive Agreement unarmed when soldiers finished Edgar Balbin on Respect for Human Rights and them off. On June 28, 2015, members Rodel Corpus International Humanitarian Law of the 69th IBPA and Scout Rangers Reynaldo Masado (CARHRIHL), the first of the four surrounded the area where Pitao was. Reyna Villacarlos substantive peace agenda agree- Pitao told his comrades to leave him “Ka Omeng” ments between the GPH and the behind and run away for their own “Ka Berlin” NDFP, was formulated and mutu- safety and survival. ally signed to serve as a guide in the Limpag, who was attending conduct of the ongoing civil war in to Pitao’s ailments, decided to stay the country. with him. In a 20-minute exchange Yet, the AFP knows no law of fire, Pitao was hit in the abdomen, and only sees enemies who should and fell to the ground. Vanessa then be annihilated by whatever means. raised her arms in surrender and Throughout the BS Aquino presi- shouted at the soldiers, “Medikal dency, the AFP violated not only the ko! Ayaw ninyo tiwasi kay masakiton IHL rights of the combatants, but siya!” (I’m a medic! Don’t kill him. also that of civilians. He is ill.) Limpag was shot in the back There were at least 17 NPA and right foot. The soldiers then combatants killed by the AFP, whose approached Pitao and finished him bodies bore signs of torture and off. Before he died, he managed to mutilation. shout “Mabuhay ang rebolusyon ug ang Back to HOME 2015 KARAPATAN Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines

katawhang kabus! (Long live the revo- a resident of Lacub was also killed lution and the poor people!). during the operations, after being Shortly, no less than Gen. part of the group of civilians that Eduardo Año, commanding officer was used as human shields by the of the 10th ID and Gen. Aurelio soldiers. Baladad, commanding officer of On October 10, 2011, eight the Eastern Mindanao Command NPA members were also killed in a TABLE 4 Victims of Extrajudicial Killing arrived as if to collect their trophies. fire fight with elements of the 503rd and Enforced Disappearance In less than a month, Gen. Año was Brigade and the 41st IBPA in Tineg, under the Noynoy Aquino Government promoted to Commanding General Abra. The bodies of the NPA guer- July 2010 to December 2015 BY Affiliation of the Philippine Army. rillas also bore signs of torture and The result of the autopsy desecration, clear evidence of viola- Extrajudicial Enforced conducted on the remains of the tion of international humanitarian Affiliation Killing Disappearance NPA members killed in a military laws and the CARHRIHL. The skulls operation on September 4-6, 2014 of at least two rebels were crushed ACT Teachers Partylist 1 0 in Lacub, Abra revealed the use of and the brains were scooped out of Anakbayan 5 0 torture and mutilation of remains. the skulls. Some bodies were hacked. There were no gunshot wounds, Bones had fractures and gunshot Anakpawis 10 0 but Recca Noelle Monte‘s skull was wounds indicated close-range firing. Bayan 1 0 like a crushed eggshell and her leg The pants and undergarment of one bones were also crushed. These were of the women red fighters were torn Bayan Muna Partylist 13 0 indications that Monte was already in the crotch area. Some residents Courage 1 0 captured by the soldiers, tortured claimed they found her naked. Those and was killed. The body of another killed were Edgar Balbin, Reynaldo Cordillera People’s Alliance 3 0 NPA fighter Arnold Jaramillo, suf- Masado, Miguel Anggaboy, Rodel Gabriela 1 0 fered multiple gunshot wounds with Corpus, Reyna Villacarlos, Dorothy one shot at close range. Ating, “Ka Omeng,” and “Ka Berlin”. Kabataan Partylist 0 1 Even civilians were not spared The 41st IBPA deployed in the Kadamay 2 0 by the soldiers’ violence during this province of Abra had a long list of September 4-6 military operation. atrocities against the civilians and Karapatan 3 0 Engr. Fidela Salvador of an NGO, combatants alike. Katribu Partylist 10 1 the Cordillera Disaster Response The savagery displayed by State and Development Services (CorDis- armed forces defines its standpoint KMP 35 3 RDs) who happened to be in Lacub on the real causes of the armed con- KMU 1 1 to conduct a community project flict and who are the real enemies of evaluation was killed. Noel Viste, the struggling Filipino people. NFSW 2 2 Piston 1 0 Selda 2 0 UCCP 2 0 Various other organizations 49 4

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27 NDFP Consultant * Political prisoners: victims of 19 trumped-up criminal charges, of the slow grind of justice and of Minor 8 inhuman jail conditions

Elderly Incarceration based on trumped- In 2014, Benny Barid died of 51 up criminal charges combined with chronic asthmatic bronchitis with inhuman jail conditions and the slow emphysema at the New Bilibid Prisons grind of the justice system caused the (NBP) Hospital. For three years, Barid death of political prisoner Eduardo was in and out of the hospital. He Sickly Serrano. Serrano, a peace consultant of was unable to stand up alone, and he 88 the National Democratic Front of the needed a wheelchair to move around. Philippines would have walked out Fellow political prisoners, not the gov- of jail a free man a long time ago, had ernment, looked for means to provide the BS Aquino government fulfilled its for his medicines. commitment to release “most, if not In 2013, Alison Alcantara died of Female all” political prisoners. For spending pneumonia, sepsis and fatal arrhyth- 49 most of his life with the marginalized mia. He was brought to the Philippine sectors and helping them uplift their General Hospital only after he fell into lives, Serrano deserved the highest a coma at the NBP Hospital. Crisanto honor. But the regime instead treated Fat, a peasant leader in Negros Under NoyNoy him like a criminal. Occidental, died of heart ailment. He 301 Serrano, a farming consul- was still handcuffed to a hospital bed tant and lecturer-trainer-adviser to when he died in 2011. farmers’ organizations and rural Release on humanitarian ground cooperatives, spent 11 years in Total number jail because of fabricated crimi- The situation is even harsher of political prisoners nal charges on a certain Rogelio for those who are already suffering 557 Villanueva. Serrano was already from ailments, like the 88 ailing as of December 2015 waiting for the dismissal of the last political prisoners and 51 elderly two cases against him when he was political prisoners who continue *OF THE 19 DETAINED rushed to the hospital due to a heart to be incarcerated in cramped and attack. He died on January 8, 2016 at unventilated cells. CONSULTANTS the Philippine Heart Center. Among those for immediate Like Ka Eddik, there were release on humanitarian grounds are 2 eight other political prisoners who NDFP peace consultants Adelberto have been convicted died while in prison during the BS Silva, Wilma Austria-Tiamzon, Maria Aquino regime: Crisanto Fat, Benny Concepcion “Concha” Araneta- 5 Barid, Alison Alcantara, Nenito Bocala, Ramon Argente, Alexander were arrested Cabarles, Gildo Gonzales, Melchor Birondo, and Maria Miradel Torres. and detained in 2015 Renomeron, Romeo San Andreas, Silva, 68, had undergone quadru- Human and Edna Montes. ple angioplasty before he was arrested

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on June 15, 2015. Austria-Tiamzon has political activism and the use of “pro- any direct evidence to support his on the Respect for Human Rights spondylolisthesis (forward displace- fessional witnesses” who are paid claim. The court even justified and International Humanitarian ment of vertebra), hypertension and fees to stand in court with fabricated this by saying, “circumstantial Law (CARHRIHL). The regime carotid artery occlusion. The 65-year- and often ridiculous and incongru- evidence, if sufficient, can supplant conveniently invokes “peace and old Araneta-Bocala has weak lungs ent testimonies. the absence of direct evidence.” development” only to cover up its because of a history of pneumonia. In October 2015, Domingo’s next statement centered anti-people economic programs and She also has ulcers, recurring lumbar Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 98 on his surrender to the 48th IBPA its fascist attacks against the people. pain due to scoliosis, anemia, vertigo, Judge Marilou Runes-Tamang ruled in 2006, that supposedly led the An organized racket and an “Order of goiter, and recurring pain in her left that accused Rogelio Villanueva is not military to the grave of Ramos. Battle” rolled into one eye, which was operated on previ- the same person as Eduardo Serrano; Two other testimonies against ously. Argente has coronary artery and Serrano should therefore be Caloza and Antalan, came from Another devious scheme disease and had a bypass operation in immediately released. Judge Tamang Leonardo Bernardo and the mother employed by the BS Aquino regime 2013. Alexander Birondo is hyperten- said Serrano’s arrest and detention for of Ramos, Tarcila. Bernardo said is the Joint Order on Rewards (JOR) sive and insulin-dependent because 11 years is an “outright mockery of he knew Antalan and Caloza through ’ Department of of diabetes while Maria Miradel Torres the basic human rights on due process as NPA leaders and Ramos as Interior and Local Government and is a breastfeeding mother whose child of law which is enshrined in our “tagapagturo sa magsasaka (teacher ’s National Defense spent nine months in prison with her. Constitution.” of the peasants).” He later learned Department that give out monetary Torres was forced to wean her child The acquittal of Eduardo that Ramos was killed. Bernardo’s reward or bounty for information on from breastfeeding after nine months Serrano in November 2015 by the testimony mentioned nothing about or the capture of some 200 “commu- because of the intolerable jail condi- Quezon City RTC Branch 100 from the alleged murder. Tarcila Ramos nist leaders” who are deemed wanted tions unfit for a child. charges of multiple murder and mul- testified about the exhumation of by the State. The reward money tiple frustrated murder, puts into a body, that she just assumed to be amounts to PhP 466 million. Consultants detained, convicted in question the many other trumped- that of her daughter Kathlyn. She The JOR 14-2012 was put in violation of the JASIG up criminal charges against political admitted in court that they didn’t place in November 2012, three As of December 31, 2015, there prisoners, specifically the NDFP undergo any test to establish with months after Aquino’s anointed suc- were 557 political prisoners in the peace consultants. Branch 100 Judge certainty that it was her daughter’s cessor Mar Roxas took over the DILG. whole country, with more than Editha G. Mina-Aguda’s decision on remains. The highly questionable bounty half of them arrested during the BS Serrano’s case, citing the “failure of With Antalan and Caloza’s was supposedly used to lure “infor- Aquino regime. About 80 political the People to prove the guilt of the conviction, there are now an NDFP mants” to track down so-called prisoners were arrested as far back as accused beyond reasonable doubt,” peace consultatnt and two JASIG- communist rebels and turn them in 1994 to 2001, or more than 20 years based on the witnesses’ testimo- protected persons convicted to life to State authorities. ago. nies, which are, “either imagined or imprisonment on false charges. Going by the names listed in There are 18 detained NDFP trumped-up” can be applied to all And all this happened under the BS the “Order of Battle”, 22 of those peace consultants and JASIG- the cases lodged against the political Aquino regime. listed had been arrested with reward protected persons, five of them prisoners. Throughout his presidency, money that amounted to some PhP arrested in 2015—Reynaldo However, in the case of the BS Aquino showed no real inten- 95 million from 2012 to the end of Hugo, Ruben Saluta, Adelberto Antalan-Caloza conviction, Judge tion to face the NDFP and talk real 2015. A month after, in December Silva, Ernesto Lorenzo, and Maria Toribio Ilao of the Pasig City RTC about solving the root causes of the 2012, the JOR made an exception in Concepcion “Concha” Araneta- Branch 266 relied on the testimony armed rebellion in the country and the case of Wilma Tiamzon and four Bocala. It was also in 2015 when two of a witness, a certain Domingo, to pursue the path to a just peace and other NDFP consultants by amend- JASIG-protected persons, Leopoldo who admitted he did not see Antalan pro-poor development. ing the November 2012 JOR. Caloza and Emeterio Antalan, were and Caloza kill the supposed victim, While blabbering “peace and The December 2012 JOR 14 (A) convicted to life imprisonment. In Kathlyn Ramos. Domingo, in his tes- development” slogans, the regime 2012 had referred to the February 24, 2013, Eduardo Sarmiento was simi- timony, used the names Caloza and continued to arrest more NDFP 1995 Joint Agreement on Safety and larly convicted on false charges. Antalan, and not the alleged aliases consultants, violating the Joint Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and As in the case of all political of those people who were supposedly Agreement on Safety and Immunity the GPH list of JASIG-covered per- prisoners, the peace consultants and involved in the killing of Ramos. Guarantees (JASIG) and other pre- sonalities, thus, deleting the names JASIG-protected persons are victims Still, the court believed viously signed agreements, such of Wilma Austria Tiamzon, Rafael of the State’s policy of criminalizing Domingo’s story even without as the Comprehensive Agreement Baylosis, Vicente Ladlad, Reynaldo

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Bocala and Jose Maria Sison from criminal offenses for their work and Karapatan Secretary General messages and “office and home the list of so-called 235 communist among the rights victims in their Cristina Palabay appeared in a visits” supposedly to recruit them personalities “in recognition of the respective regions. “rogue gallery” that was attached into the government intelligence pending peace negotiations and con- The absurd trumped-up cases to the charge sheet of Honey May network. Members of the Council ditions upon the existence of said range from kidnapping, serious Suazo, et al. Zarate was even slapped for Health and Development, peace negotiations.” illegal detention, trafficking in with serious illegal detention charges Kilusang Mayo Uno, Anakbayan, Despite this, the Tiamzon persons, serious physical injuries, for supposedly keeping a child rape Children’s Rehabilitation Center couple are still detained at the murder and frustrated murder — victim at the evacuation center in and Salinlahi also reported similar Custodial Center in Camp Crame in heaped on those who supported UCCP-Haran. incidents. spite of the JASIG and the amended internally displaced persons or Officers and members of the Before this, in 2012-2013, there DILG-DND JOR. evacuees, specifically those from Confederation of Unity Recognition were already 12 documented cases Talaingod and Kapalong, Davao and Advancement of Government of break-ins in houses and offices of Trumped-up charges, surveillance vs. del Norte, from Bukidnon, from Employees (COURAGE) were activists where data storage devices leaders of people’s organizations Lianga, Surigao del Sur and those subjected to harassment and sur- such as laptops, cameras, and USB In 2015 alone, at least 114 from Malapatan, province veillance through letters, phone drives were singled out by “robbers”. rights workers, church people, and and Balit in Agusan del Sur. Others rights advocates were falsely charged charged were participants in fact- with criminal offenses for directly finding missions that documented working among the victims of mili- the rights violations committed by (For other details of the cases above, see Karapatan Monitor Issue No. 2, 2015 or tary atrocities in the provinces. From the military against civilians in com- http://karapatan.org/Karapatan+Monitor+2015+Issue+No.+2) up north in to down munities. This happened among the south in Mindanao, the pattern leaders of Karapatan and a number is similar. Most of the victims of of people’s organizations in Cagayan harassment cases are human rights Valley and again, those from Davao, workers, church people, and known Agusan, and Sarangani provinces. leaders of the progressive move- Ironically, the victims them- ment and partylist organizations. selves were charged with murder Obviously, the charges are meant and frustrated murder as in the case to silence the voices that amplify of torture victim Ruben Wating in the sentiments and demands of the Sarangani province; and Marlon victims, mostly peasant and indig- Baganay, Mendo Bisiotan and enous people. The victims include Lando Daryuin who were abducted two deceased leaders: labor leader and were later on surfaced three and former Congressional represen- days after, and then charged and tative Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran and detained. environmentalist Francis Morales. In the National Capital Region, Karapatan officers in the regions leaders of the progressive movement namely, Rev. Allen Bill Veloso and were also implicated in the cases Pastor Sadrach Sabella, Chairperson filed against those in the regional and Secretary General, respectively, centers. The names and photos of of Karapatan-Socsksargen; Honey Bayan Muna representative Carlos May Suazo, Secretary General of Zarate; Gabriela Women’s Party rep- Karapatan - Southern Mindanao, resentative Emmi de Jesus; former Romella Liquigan, regional coordi- parliamentarians Teddy Casiño nator of Karapatan - Cagayan Valley, and Rafael Mariano; children’s and Eliza Pangilinan, Karapatan- rights advocates Karlo Manano and Caraga Secretary General, were Jacquiline Ruiz of Salinlahi and the among those falsely charged with Children’s Rehabilitation Center;

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arrested Total ndfp women under REGION no. of pps consultants BS aquino Ilocos 0 0 0 0 Crimes vs. communities: Cordillera Administrative 7 0 1 6 communities suffer from the AFP’s Region Cagayan Valley 8 1 0 8 maelstrom of war Central Luzon 10 1 1 6 National Capital 222 19 13 61 Region 2015 also saw an intensified attack on hinterland communities as the AFP vowed Southern to destroy so-called NPA mass bases or guerilla fronts. The attacks brought on 23 1 0 11 Tagalog large-scale destruction in rural communities, including their sources of livelihood, the community infrastructures built by the people, and the natural resources Bicol 39 3 0 34 environment. Western Visayas 11 2 1 9 Central Visayas 4 0 0 2 Eastern Visayas 39 9 1 29 Northern 26 2 2 20 Mindanao Caraga 15 1 0 15 Socsksargen 25 1 0 15 Western 28 5 0 22 Mindanao Southern 72 4 0 50 Mindanao ARMM 28 0 0 13 TOTAL 557 49 19 301

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On October 18, 2011, a mosque The massive evacuation of Bombing and several houses were damaged residents of Lianga, Surigao del Sur when a platoon of the Philippine that followed the September 1 mas- Army 4th Special Forces Battalion sacre was not the first documented Special Operations Command used case in the Caraga region under the OV10 to bomb the village of Kailih, BS Aquino regime. There were 26 Datu Unsay, Maguindanao. The documented incidents of forcible bombing was part of a follow up evacuation in the Caraga region operation against members of the from August 2010 to September Moro Islamic Liberation Front under 2015. In 2015, three incidents had Commander Dan Asnawie. Some been documented. 287 families were forced out of their In Southern Mindanao Region, Majority of the 34 incidents the barangay hall because of the homes due to the clash between the there were 10 documented inci- of bombing documented during incident. two armed forces. dents of forcible evacuation in BS Aquino‘s regime happened in Endangering civilians, Indiscriminate firing. Bombs just two years, from 2013 to 2015. Mindanao; and was committed by especially children. On May 31, and air strikes most often were Most of the incidents happened in the units under the AFP’s Eastern 2013, the 503rd Brigade, indiscrimi- accompanied by ground troops 2013. The more than 800 evacu- Mindanao Command. nately bombed the municipality of firing indiscriminately once they ees at the United Church of Christ Bombings obviously were far Malibcong, Abra. Two girls who were entered the villages. in the Philippines-UCCP in Haran more destructive to people’s lives 14 and 17 years old were almost hurt. On February 27, 2015, a few came in batches starting January of and livelihood, and to the natural They were traumatized and did not days after the botched operation in 2015. More than half of them were environment. People would run and want to attend classes for fear of being Mamasapano, the soldiers entered from Talaingod, . try to escape, but no one in the tar- hit by another bomb. The bomb Sitio Quay, Maitumaig, Datu Unsay, They were later joined by evacuees geted communities was exempt from exploded 40 meters from the hut of Maguindanao at around 7 a.m., and from Kapalog, Davao del Norte and the devastation. Bombings violated Matilde Sacgragon where the two started firing at the houses follow- Kitaotao, Bukidnon. the people’s rights, collectively and minors were gathering edible snails in ing mortar shelling and an air strike Northern Mindanao region had individually. a nearby rice field. Barangay Councilor using OV10 planes. the highest number of documented Civilians injured. In April Antonio Ambalneg who was in the Aga Zulkarnin and her five incidents among all non-Moro 2012, farmer Jenice Marguate, 25, vicinity rescued the children. The children ran away leaving her regions in Mindanao, with 18 inci- of Brgy. Sampaguita, was hit by bombings were part of the operations husband behind when they heard dents of evacuation from 2011 to shrapnel when a bomb was dropped led by BGen. Hernando Iriberri, then the gunshots. They were so afraid 2015. on his farm in Kibawe, Bukidnon. the commanding officer of the 503rd that they forgot to bring any From 2010 up to the end of Soldiers delayed his family as they IB and now the AFP Chief of Staff. of their belongings with them. 2015, there were at least 118 inci- rushed him to the District Hospital Destruction of properties Zulkarnin also saw APC tanks and dents of forced evacuation all over in Kibawe. The soldiers wanted and religious sites. In the same marine soldiers coming into their the country. to arrest Marguate on mere sus- incident stated above, the two bombs community. Forcible evacuation brought about a host of other difficulties picion of being an NPA member. dropped near the forested area of Forced evacuation The soldiers only allowed them to barangays Duldulao and Lat-ey in among the evacuees. pass when the village chairperson Malibcong, Abra exploded some 170 More often than not, bomb- In January, two children, attested he is a resident of and a meters from the Hydro Electric Power ings led to forcible evacuation where Jamson Tilocan, 4, and Miguel Man- farmer in the barangay. Marguate House and some residential houses. It villagers sought safety in other com- anito, 3, died of measles. They were was hit when two fighter planes was 60 meters from resident Ponsiano munities or in town or urban centers. among the 1,000 evacuees from that reinforced the operation of the Culangan‘s rice granary and 120 In other instances, community the four communities in San Luis, 8th IBPA indiscriminately shelled meters away where another resident members fled their villages when Agusan del Sur who were at the Sitios Kibanggis and Nabunturan in Rommel Teneza was plowing his rice combat operations by the AFP inten- evacuation center starting January Barangay Sampaguita. The planes field. A bomb was also dropped near sified and soldiers would encamp 2015. At the Tandag Sports Complex dropped 14 bombs in a span of one Sitio Aligang of the same barangay in their villages, using their schools where evacuees from Han-ayan and hour and a half. Some 71 families but did not explode. Yet the AFP did and other public facilities or even neighboring communities fled after or 293 individuals evacuated to not retrieve it. their homes as barracks. the September 1 massacre, about 170 Back to HOME

37 2010 [10-26 Aug | Brgy. Alpha Company led by Col Dennis Tanzo, Lt. Pianing, Butuan City, Agusan Gaston and Sgt. Gavino are deployed. [15Dec del Norte] Aerial bombing and | Sitio Agila, Cabalantian, Arakan, North cannon blasts by the 30th IB prompted ] Bombs were dropped by the 57th the evacuation of 38 families. [13Aug IB followed by a series of gunshots. Two | Purok 5 and 6, Brgy. Pianing, helicopters were seen firing at civilians. Butuan City, Agusan del 2014 [20Mar | Sitio Bagang and Laslasakan,Brgy. Norte] 30th IB planes encircled Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte] Residents reported Purok 5 & 6 and dropped eight bombs. aerial bombing for two days by the 68th IB, 60th IB, 1003rdIB, [14Aug | Sitio Lusong, Brgy. Puting 4th Special Forces. There were also incidents of strafing and Bato, Cabadbaran, ] indiscriminate firing causing a young woman’s miscarriage and the Two airplanes of the 30th IB dropped bombs evacuation of the community. [21-27Mar | Sitio Danlog, Brgy. in nearby mountain areas after a series of Bitaugan, San Miguel, Surigao del Sur] For seven days, the strafing, causing evacuation. 2011 [12Sep | 36th IB bombed the area, located near a populated community. Human rights Sitio Binablayan, Brgy. Amduntog, Asipulo, [30Mar | Sitio Natayukan Ifugao] 86th IB bombed the area with mortars and Sitio Lakwakon, Brgy. for two days. [18Oct | Al-barka, ] Aerial Balite, Magpet, North bombing by the 4th Special Forces Battalion- Special Cotabato] As bombs were Operations Command using OV10 plane in Kailih Village dropped by the 57th IB during damaged a Mosque and several houses; 287 families an evacuation, one person was evacuated. 2012 [28Feb | Kitcharao, Agusan del almost hit. Some tree farms and bombed out Norte] Bombing, strafing and airstrikes by the 402nd IB rice fields were also bombed. were reported. Some 58 families from Alegria, Surigao del [7Jun | Boundary of Brgy. Norte evacuated. [5Mar | Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte] Panangan and Libay-libay, Two fighter planes of the 402nd IB dropped four bombs, some Maco, Compostela Valley] The 300 meters from residential areas, followed by a helicopter 1001st Infantry Brigade dropped bombs which strafed forest areas. [5Mar | Brgy. Camam-onan, on the forest area where farms are located. Gigaquit, ] Two helicopters of the 402nd [14Aug | Sitio Lusong, Brgy. Puting IB conducted aerial strikes hitting two houses and causing Bato, Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte] Two 34 residents to evacuate. [1Apr | Brgy. Sampaguita, Kibawe, bombs were dropped by the 30th IB in the nearby Bukidnon] Farmer Jenice Marguate, 25, was hit by shrapnels after mountain areas. [20-21Aug | Purok 2 & 4, Brgy. Bombing a bomb was dropped on his farm by the 8th IB. Two fighter planes Fimagas, Katipunan, ] indiscriminately shelled Sitios Kibanggis and Nabunturan, dropping Two of the Phil. Air Force and 302nd IB’s helicopters 14 bombs within an hour. [7May | Brgy. New Visayas, Trento, dropped bombs on Purok 4 which led to the suspension INCIDENTS Agusan del Sur] A helicopter and fighter plane of the 25th IB of classes and evacuation of around 600 individuals. (July 2010 to December 2015) dropped at least seven bombs which led to the evacuation of 83 2015 [25Jan - 13Mar | Raja Bauyan, Datu Saudi families (397 individuals). [5Jun | Brgys. Kinabalan, Banate, Ampatuan, Tukanalipao, Shariff Aguak and Datu Laurel of Malungon, Sarangani] Two helicopters used by Unsay, Maguindanao] Indiscriminate firing, shelling of 81 the 57th, 58th & 73rd IB dropped 12 bombs in the community mm, 105 mm howitzer, and aerial bombing by OV10 Bronco followed by strafing of a helicopter-mounted machine gun. planes by the Composite Unit of 2nd Mechanized Brigade, 8th 2010 Cordillera Houses were destroyed causing the evacuation of around 332 Maritime Landing Batallion, 45th IB, 7th IB, 601st IB, 602nd IB, 3 Autonomous Region families. [21Oct | Brgy. Calabcab, Maco, Compostela 603rd IB, 33rd IB, 45th IB resulted in the destruction of properties Valley] Two helicopters of the 71st IB bombed the area, and forced evacuation of the civilians. [11-13Feb | Mangasa Northern Mindanao injuring two civilians and led to the evacuation of 116 Sitio Damitan, Dalwangan, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon] 4 Region families. 2013 [2Feb | Sitio Sumalayag, Halapitan, 1st Special Forces led by Col. Lidasan forcibly entered and 2011 San Fernando, Bukidnon] 8th IB led by Sgt. Abdul Ain ransacked a farm after bombing the area. [27Feb | Sitio Quary, SoCSKSarGen Hussin, Cpl. Romeo Molina dropped 18 bombs in the Maitumaig, Datu Unsay; Sitio Kuta, Brgy. Lapuk, Shariff 4 Region area. [31May | Barangays Lat-ey and Duldulao, Aguak; Sitio Kulbara, Brgy. Tapikan, Maguindanao] Two Malibcong, Abra] The 503rd Infantry Brigade helicopters and OV10 bomber planes from the composite units 2012 Autonomous Region bombed the area during a combat operation. of 6th ID: 2nd Mechanized Battalion, Special Forces, 601st IB, 6 in Muslim Mindanao The bombs almost hit two girls, ages 14 and 602nd IB, 603rd IB, and Police Regional Office of ARMM-PNP 16. Also hit was a micro-hydroelectric dropped bombs on these communities. Mortars were also used Western Mindanao power plant, the community’s main to bomb houses. [28Feb | Brgy. Dasikil, Mamasapano, 2013 1 Region power source. [24Jun | Purok 9-C, Maguindanao] Mortar shelling done by composite units of Sitio San Isidro, Brgy. Nuevo 6th ID: 2nd Mechanized Battalion, Special Forces, 601st IB, Southern Mindanao Iloco, Mawab, Compostela 602nd IB, 603rd IB and Police Regional Office of ARMM-PNP. 6 Region Valley] The 66th IB, using two Two OV10 planes and choppers also dropped bombs in helicopters, dropped eight bombs the community. [6Mar | Brgy. Elian and Madia, Datu 2014 CARAGA and indiscriminately fired at a Saudi-Ampatuan, Maguindanao] Composite units 9 Region school’s vicinity using a machine from the 6th ID:2nd Mechanized Battalion, Special gun. [30Aug | Forest areas Forces, 601st IB, 602nd IB, and 603rd IB and Police Bicol of Aguid and upland Bontoc Regional Office of ARMM-PNP dropped 105 Howitzer 2015 1 Region in the Demang mountain bombs which exploded in two houses. There was ranges, affecting the a total of six explosions. [10Mar | Brgy. Elian, municipalities of Sagada, Besao, Sadanga and Bontoc Datu Saudi Ampatuan] Elements of Special in and in Tubo, Abra] 1st Division Strike Action Forces dropped bombs and fired Wing of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) and the Regional Public gunshots during the community’s sambayang Safety Battalion of the PNP bombed the communal hunting (prayer). [30Mar | Brgy. Upper Suyan, grounds, forest area, coffee and swidden farms and watershed of Malapatan, Saranggani] Eight bombs the Fidelisan, Dallic and Bontoc tribes. [22Sep | Brgy. Maalo, were dropped by the 73rd IB in a populated Juban, Sorsogon] 36th IB strafed the villages using two area followed by firing of helicopter-mounted machine guns. [20Nov | Purok 2, Sitio machine guns, destroying the Tinago, Brgy. Elizalde, Maco, community’s water source. [1May | Compostela Valley] Two helicopters of Sitio Kamansi and Tapol, Brgy. the 71st IB dropped four bombs at the farms. Banglay, Lagonglong, Misamis Back to HOME [6Dec | Purok 2, Brgy. 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showed symptoms of varying ill- of the forcible evacuation. The fact- out by Brig.Gen. Alexander Balutan Lumad was demolished on October nesses after two weeks at the shelter. finding mission members estimated of the 10th ID and Col. Harold 23, and was barred to open by village A 4-year-old girl died from an undi- some PhP 120,000 worth of cash and Cabreros of the 1003rd IBPA, and captain Felipe Cabugnason who agnosed illness a week after the goods from retail stores and coopera- members of the ALAMARA paramili- acted on direct orders of the 8th and evacuation. tives were taken while the livestock tary group who forcibly entered the 23rd IBPA. The Lumad school was Displacement and economic and abaca stocks amounted to more Church compound where the evacu- named after the murdered Italian dislocation such as loss of income than PhP 500,000. The amount did ees were staying. The raid resulted in priest who initiated literacy and and sources of livelihood on the not include the cost of rootcrops, the wounding of at least 10 Lumad numeracy classes among the Lumad part of the evacuees were among fruits, and other food crops that were evacuees. At the evacuation centers, decades ago. the other ills of forcible evacuation. ready for harvest, which should have evacuees were under the prying eyes Cabugnason was one of the Once the evacuees left the commu- been a source of additional income of the soldiers, military intelligence incorporators of the Lumad school, nities, their personal properties and for the families. Houses were defaced agents, and members of paramilitary but had turned around since August other community-owned structures with writing such as “welcome NPA groups who kept watch and harassed 25, when soldiers started to encamp and plants, crops and livestock were family” and various sexually sugges- them. at the village hall where he holds looted and/or destroyed. In many tive drawings and writings. On October 7, 2015, Butchoy office. Soldiers tagged the Lumad instances, houses of the evacuees For the State forces, the killing Tumagsa, 25, an evacuee from school “NPA school.” Since August, were burned, destroyed or defaced. of school executive Emerito Samarca Kapalong, Davao del Norte, was Cabugnason made several attempts The case of Lianga, Surigao del Sur and two other Lumad leaders and the stabbed with an icepick by one of the to implement the school’s closure. exemplies the level of destruction forcible evacuation of the residents two men who were following him On October 23, when most of the and divestment of properties in the of Han-ayan and neighboring com- on his way back to UCCP-Haran. residents were at the evacuation communities once residents evacu- munities were not enough. When Tumagsa came from the market when center, Cabugnason and his men ated and sought shelter elsewhere all the residents left, the ALCADEV the incident happened. Fortunately, were reported to have demolished to get away from the military’s school compound was ransacked and Tumagsa was only grazed. Prior the school building and ordered the madness. structures were destroyed. The fact- to this, a volunteer teacher for the teachers and students to leave the The report of an international finding mission found the electrical Lumad pupils at UCCP-Haran was dormitory. fact-finding mission that went to wires within the school compound tailed by men in motorcycle. The Save Our Schools Network- Lianga on October 25-28, 2015, disconnected, the water system The year ended with the evacu- Southern Mindanao (SOS-SMR) after the massacre incident, cited the diverted to the military camp; the ees at UCCP Haran in Davao City and reported that teachers, students, burning of six houses in the village school’s fishpond drained killing at the Tandag City Sports Complex and parents attending the 11th of Panukmoan and two houses in the fingerlings and fish stock; the spending the Christmas holidays Foundation Day of the Salugpungan Magkahunaw. The Magkahunaw grown livestock such as six turkeys, away from their homes, despite the Ta Tanu Igkanugon Community properties were valued by their 21 chickens, two ducks and numer- call for the military to pull-out from Learning Center (STTICLC) and owners at about PhP 500, 000 and ous chicks of about 250grams weight the communities to allow the Lumad Bwalawan Festival in Talaingod, PhP 1.5M respectively because of the lost. Also lost were the school‘s con- to get back to their homes. Davao del Norte were blocked on collective farm machinery, hauling sumer store stock worth about PhP their way to STTICLC by members Attacks on Schools truck, about 10 containers of fuel, 100,000. of Alamara paramilitary group. The abaca stocks and other farm prod- Meanwhile, the evacuees’ woes You’ll know how heartless a Alamara members, led by Lumansad ucts as well as home appliances that were endless during their stay in government is when even children Sibugan also aimed their bolos, and were destroyed with the newly con- cramped temporary shelters at the have become targets of its counter- bows and arrows at the Salugpungan structed houses. All the houses in Tandag City Sports Complex and as insurgency program—their schools delegation. The contingent was Han-ayan, where ALCADEV is situ- they faced the uncertainties in unfa- are used for military encampment, again stopped by soldiers and ated, were also ransacked. miliar cityscape. destroyed or burned. Most of the Kapalong police on their way back, There were also reported cases In July 2015, Rep. Nancy schools are not even government- citing absurd violations such as, of divestment of money, farm tools, Catamco raided the UCCP-Haran in established but grassroots initiated “driving without uniform, proper household utensils, jewelry and other Davao City to “rescue” the Lumad and supported by various religious shoes, seatbelt, etc.” to justify the valuables, stocks of merchandise staying there from church and rights and people’s organizations. blockade. Sibugan is the same person from retail stores, livestock, personal groups. Catamco claimed the groups In Brgy. White Culaman, who covered up the AFP’s involve- documents and picture/s, abaca “kidnapped and held” the more than Kitaotao, Bukidnon, the Fr. Fausto ment in the Lianga massacre before stock from secured houses at the time 700 Lumad. The raid was carried Tentorio Memorial School for the the national media.

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40 41 In early 2015, the STTICLC recognition to the attacks against schools were almost closed down children. The orders allowed the use The role of paramilitary groups: by DepEd Division Supt. Josephine of schools/educational institutions Fadul, as prompted by the AFP. for military purposes, sugarcoating AFP’s surrogates During the 2016 budget delib- such operations as “civil-military erations at the Lower House, operations (CMO).” The AFP extolled Department of Education officials Oplan Bayanihan for utilizing admitted the plan to close down 24 combat and “non-combat” strat- Salugpungan schools and replace egies, including CMOs to defeat them with schools ran by soldiers. rebel groups. CMOs, therefore, in The plan was a result of a meeting the guise of humanitarian activi- called by the National Intelligence ties were within the framework and Coordinating Agency (NICA) operations of the AFPs ongoing war. The State had capitalized on mining corporations. The AFP also which is under the Office of the This would explain the brazenness the illiteracy and poverty of the trained and supervised the secu- President. of the AFP’s attacks against teachers masses to divide them and to pit rity forces of these corporations as The Save Our Schools Network– and students, including the killing them against each other. frontliners. Mindanao reported that from of Lumad school executive Emerito The Civilian Auxiliary Force They came in so many different September 2014 to September 2015, Samarca. Geographical Unit (CAFGU) is names, but were essentially AFP sur- there were 95 documented cases Because of the mercenary ori- spread throughout the country, rogates in their terror attacks against of attacks on schools by soldiers entation of the state security forces, while groups such as the Special communities. The government and paramilitary groups all over everyone, regardless of age, who Civilian Armed Auxiliary (SCAA), repeatedly denied any connection Mindanao, 81 of which were Lumad crossed their way were considered Investment Defense Force (IDF), with the paramilitary groups, but community schools, affecting 4,265 enemies. It would not be farfetched ITDF (Inter-Territorial Defense the groups obviously performed students. to consider the possibility that the Force), Alamara, Bagani-Magahat, tasks along the BS Aquino regime’s In 2013, the BS Aquino regime next generation of Lumad would Dela Mance, Sanmatrida, and New counterinsurgency program. came out with AFP guidelines/letter remember BS Aquino and his army as Indigenous People’s Army Reform The Magahat-Bagani group directive #25 and DepEd memoran- child killers and one who destroyed (NIPAR) groups are mostly found that figured in the September 1, dum 221, which gave government their future. in Mindanao. The SCAA, CAA, 2015 Lianga massacre was one of the ITDF, and the IDF were specifi- 24 documented paramilitary groups cally created to protect big business in the country which were trained, and foreign investments such as financed, and supervised by the transnational and multi-national Armed Forces of the Philippines.

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42 2015 KARAPATAN Year-End Report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines Documented paramilitary groups The ManiLakbayan ng One of the earliest documented Mindanao 2015 in its statements also cases under the Aquino regime was in 25 operating in the country cited other paramilitary groups oper- Brgy. Calayo, Hacienda Looc, Nasugbu ating in Mindanao such as the Task in . Four minors were among Force Gantangan, Tribal Warriors, those forcibly recruited into the 1. Civilian Auxiliary Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) - Present in all parts of the Bungkatol Liberation Front (BULIF), CAFGU and who had undergone train- country Black Diamond, and Munggos. ing under the 730th Combat Group 2. Barangay Peacekeeping and Security Officer (BPSO) - 4th Infantry Division- The latest victim killed by the (AFP-Airforce) and the 16th IBPA. Philippine Army (IDPA); (created to protect transnational/multinational paramilitary group, particularly Joecel Bautista, 17, Wilson Bucal, corporations especially mining) the De la Mance group, was Lumad 17, Gilbert Jr. Limboc, 16, and Eugene activist Mankombite Mariano, who Sevilla, 15 were among those docu- 3. Special Civilian Armed Auxiliary (SCAA) - 4th, 401st , 26th Infantry Battalion- was shot then hacked last October mented on September 9, 2010 who Philippine Army (IBPA) 27, 2 015. had undergone training and military 4. Inter-Territorial Defense Force /Investment Defense Force - 10th IDPA By providing guns and some exercises in Palico, Nasugbu town in cash, the AFP attempts to control Batangas where the 730th Combat 5. Task Force KITACOM (Kiblawan, Tampakan, Columbio, and Malungon)- 3rd, civilians, even if they have to kill Group Philippine Air Force is based. 27th, 1001st IBPA their own kind. Such was the case The four were promised salaries and 6. Civilian Armed Auxiliary - 8th IBPA of Loreto Mayor Dario Otaza. Mayor schooling. 7. Nationwide Development Corporation (NADECOR) forces - 10th IDPA, 7th IDPA, Otaza, whose death was owned up On July 2, 2010, two days after 1001st IBPA by the New People's Army, showed Aquino assumed presidency, Ryan that his group Bagani Lubog Force Duhac, 18, a Manobo farmer from 8. TF Sagip-Kalikasan - 9th IDPA was responsible for the killing of Km.19, Lianga, Surigao del Sur (two 9. TADECO forces - 4th IDPA three persons in his area—Manhiloy kilometers from where the September Mantog, 35; Benjamin Planos, 28; 21, 2015 massacre happened), was 10. Blue guards - 53rd IB, 1st IDPA and, Gabriel Alindao, 60. The group abducted and has since remained 11. K9 - 53rd IB, 1st IDPA (Former members of the New People’s Army who is attached to the 26th IBPA. under the custody of the Marcos surrendered to the military) As of November 30, 2015, the Bocales-Task Force Gantangan- AFP-trained and supported para- Bagani Force and elements the 36th 12. Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Bungcayao Brigade - 3rd IDPA military groups were involved in IBPA. Marcos Bocales and his Task 13. Armadong Operatiba ng Partido Marxista (May or may not be members of the killing of 94 out of the 304 doc- Force Gantangan have been in oper- indigenous groups, but who were appointed by the AFP with NCIP to become umented victims of extrajudicial ation since Gloria Arroyo’s Oplan leaders or “datu”) killings under the BS Aquino regime. Bantay Laya. Duhac was taken by 14. Sanmatrida - 4th IDPA They were also involved in five out of soldiers and members of the para- 15 incidents of massacre. military group as he helped his uncle 15. New Indigenous People’s Army Reform (NIPAR) - 4th IDPA The paramilitary groups Jerson Duhac cut falcata trees. They 16. Tribal Reform Indigenous Organising in Mindanao (TRIOM) Force - 8th IBPA were also involved in the killing of were working on different parts of Fernando Baldomero, Italian priest the field but within hearing distance 17. Bagani - 27th IB, 10th IDPA Fr. Fausto Tentorio, Bukidnon tribal of each other. When Jerson could no 18. Salawakan - 4th, 401st, 26th IBPA chief Jimmy Liguyon, tribal activist longer hear the sound of trees falling 19. Bagani Otaza-Lubog Force - 26th IB, 4th IDPA Genesis Ambason, Henry Alameda, from Ryan’s end, he went to look for and the Capions. his nephew but found three soldiers 20. Calpit Egua-Waway Belandres - 36th IBPA, 3rd SF, 401st IBPA instead. He did not see Ryan. For Forced recruitment into paramilitary four days, the family searched for 21. Alamara - 10th IDPA groups Duhac, begged the soldiers to release 22. De la Mance - 8th IB, 4th IDPA The AFP was not only the creator him. But the soldiers claimed Duhac 23. Hasmin Acebedo - 36th IB, 4th IDPA and backer of paramilitary groups. would be rewarded with a large sum The AFP also used threats and coer- of money for surrendering a gun. On 24. Manlokobi Bocales - 8th IBPA cion and/or red-tagging to force the July 6, Marcos Bocales led the family 25. Bagani-Magahat - 36th IB, 4th IDPA civilians to join these groups. to Duhac who was in a remote area

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in Coastway, St. Christine, Lianga, cigarette burns on his right elbow. thumbmarks without knowing what Ricky Sotal, Toto Sukal and an Surigao del Sur. Bocales said they were The soldiers did not release Duhac to was written on it. They were released unnamed member of the PNP, went hiding Duhac from the NPA members his family. The family later learned the following day. to the house of Ruben Wating at who might be after him. Duhac was that he had become a member of Alex Ortile, 34, a farmer from Sitio Akboal, Brgy. Upper Suyan, silent all throughout the visit, but his TFG-BF. Duhac’s family has not seen Brgy. Sukip, Pio Duran, Albay was Malapatan, Sarangani. The soldiers family saw his fear. They also noticed nor heard from him since then. the first documented torture victim claimed Wating was with the NPA in under the BS Aquino regime. On an encounter with the military on July 3, 2010, Aquino’s third day in April 2. Wating vehemently denied power, Alex Ortile was tortured by the accusation. elements of the 2nd IBPA under the The military forced Wating 9th Infantry Division on the mere to drink two gallons of coconut suspicion that he was a member of wine or tuba. At around 9 p.m., the NPA. they brought Ruben to a nearby At 8:00 a.m. that day, Ortile creek where the soldiers kicked and was at home when he heard gun- punched Wating to force him to Torture shots, some 50 meters from his admit he is a member of the NPA. house. After a few minutes, members One of the soldiers kicked Ruben of the army led by Lt. Palacio arrived in the neck. Another took a plier and summoned him to a mango and clipped Ruben’s left thumbnail; tree near his house. There, the sol- while another punched Wating in diers forced him to admit he was the right side of his body. The sol- a member of the NPA and that he diers pulled a .45 cal. and aimed had a gun. The soldiers punched, at Wating’s forehead. The soldiers There are 215 reported individ- After an hour, they were ordered to slapped and hit him with a rifle butt. said he should admit to what he was ual cases of torture under the Aquino stand while blindfolded and tied to They also got his bolo and tried to being accuse of, otherwise, they regime. Among them were Marcelo each other. Marcelo fell down when cut his neck. Because of the beating, would kill him. The soldiers told Nanganlag, 28, Crisanto Nanganlag, he was punched in the stomach. The Ortile vomited blood; a soldier even Wating to drop to the ground as they 40, and Toto Catantan, 50. All were soldier pulled him in the head so he ordered him to lick the blood. The alternately stepped on Wating’s Higaonon farmers of Sitio, Aligudon, could stand. The three were told to men also got pieces of broken glass legs and on to his back. Later, they Brgy. Purok 7, Mat-I, Claveria, walk to a nearby village while blind- and threatened to hit Ortile in the instructed him to stand up and Misamis Oriental. folded. They also carried some of the face if he refused to talk.The soldiers run. Wating refused for fear that On the early morning of soldiers’ packs. also threatened to torture Ortile’s soldiers would shoot him. Not con- September 28, 2015, Crisanto On the way, the soldiers thrust 70-year-old mother Josefina. tented, the soldiers brought Wating and Marcelo Nanganlag and Toto their guns on Catantan and Marcelo On April 5, 2015, Ruben to his neighbor’s house where he Catantan went to the forest to gather and Crisanto Nangalag to speed Wating, 35, a B’laan farmer was tor- was again repeatedly punched. One wild orchids, which they would sell them up. When they reached Purok tured by elements of the 73rd IBPA. of the soldiers smashed Wating’s to traders who came to their place. 4 they were told to board a military Two months later, in June, Wating hands with a bamboo stick. When At around 11:30 a.m., they heard truck, pulling their hair so they and 19 other leaders and members they were exhausted, the soldiers gunfire not far from their place. The could climb up the truck. The three of progressive people’s organizations allowed Wating to go back home three immediately hid for safety. were brought to the 58th IBPA camp were charged with attempted murder after hitting his back with a belt. After about six hours in hiding, they in Barangay Mat-i, an hour away and violation of Republic Act 9851 or Wating was listed among the came out thinking it was already from where the soldiers picked them the Philippine Act on Crimes against respondents of more than 19 indi- safe. On their way home, they met up. They were repeatedly interro- International Humanitarian Law, viduals, mostly Blaan and leaders of soldiers of the 58th IBPA. Four of gated, mauled, and water was poured Genocide, and Other Crimes Against human rights and people‘s organiza- the soldiers immediately pointed over their faces—to force them to Humanity. tions, including pastors of the United their guns on them. The soldiers admit that they did errands for the On that day at 5 p.m., three Church of Christ of the Philippines ordered the three to kneel and raise NPA. The military then took pic- elements of the 73rd IB headed by who were charged on June 17, 2015 their hands. Then they were told to tures of them. They were forced to a certain “Gober”, commanding with attempted murder and viola- lie face down as they were hog tied. sign a sheet of paper and affix their officer of Reconnaissance Company, tion of Republic Act 9851. Back to HOME

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multiple counts of rape “Tess”, 14 (3 counts of rape) July 4, 2015 and May 6, 2015 | Sitio Nasilaban, Brgy. Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte Galot, Daniel and Jay-ar of 68th IB Bravo Coy

“Julie”, 16 November 17, 2014 | Biao Guinga, Los Amigos, Tugbok, Davao City Soldiers do not only kill, they Nancy Catamco, the police, and the Benjie Blancada, 40, member of 84th IBPA rape children, too. Alamara paramilitary group to raid Amid the rising political kill- the UCCP-Haran, where hundreds “Sienna”, 17, (2 counts of rape) May 9, 2013 | Paluan, ings under the BS Aquino regime, 11 of evacuees were housed, including Two soldiers of the 76th IBPA women were raped by state forces; “Tess” and her parents.

“Ina”, 22 and eight of them were minors. On January 30, 2010, members December 3, 2012 | Sitio Malaanonang, Soldiers and members of the Civilian of the 9th IB Bravo Company namely Tanay, Rizal Cpl. Melcer A. Andino, CMO Battalion, 2nd IDPA Armed Forces Geographical Unit Alex Briones, Archie Vasquez, Gilbert (CAFGU) undressed girls,as young Quinito and a certain Llagas, gang “Nini”, 12 June 24, 2012 | Alabang, Muntinlupa as 12 years old, then raped them. raped “Vilma”, 21, inside the 9th Valeriano Masaglang Jr. y Lavba aka Niknik, None of the perpetrators of the docu- IBPA camp in Aroroy, Masbate. After 8 aide of an officer of the 2nd IDPA; mented rape cases have been arrested the four soldiers took turns raping enrolled in Candidate Soldier Course or brought to jail. “Vilma”, Briones raped her again. “Isabel”, 16 On two separate occasions, After the incident, Briones sent mes- February 17, 2012 | Military camp in Ifugao Captain Danilo Lalin, Company Officer of elements of the 68th Infantry sages to “Vilma” threatening to kill Higlander 86, 50th IBPA in Mankayan, Battalion-Bravo Company, iden- her if she told on them. Three days out of tified as Galot, Daniel and Jay-Ar later, “Vilma” received another “Vilma”, 21 (4 counts of rape) January 30, 2012 | 9th IB-PA camp in Bgy. Puro, raped “Tess”, a 14-year old Lumad message from Briones asking for a Aroroy; Carenderia Lazaro Lodging House girl. The 68th IB Bravo Company was meeting because he had something 11 in Bgy. Calachuchi, Milagros, Masbate victims are minors A certain Llagas, Alex Briones, Archie Vasquez, encamped in Sitio Nasilaban, Brgy. important to tell her. Briones picked Gilbert Quintio a.k.a. Jerick, James Gomez, Palma Gil, Talaingod. up “Vilma” and brought her to a JUNE 2010 - DECEMBER 2015 Renz Sta. Ana, John Doe of 9th IBPA Bravo Coy The parents of “Tess” were lodging house, where she was raped “Mutya”, 17 away for a week to harvest corn in again after forcing her to take alco- October 16, 2011 | 16th IBPA Camp in Baras, Rizal PFC Alexander Barsaga, PFC Ronnie Castro, Pvt. another village, leaving “Tess” and holic drinks. Rocky Domingo of the 16th IBPA her siblings under the care of their PFC Alexander Barsaga, PFC grandmother whose house was used Ronnie Castro and PVT Rocky “Emie”, 13, (3 counts of rape) May 27, 2011 and January 2011 | Lobo, Batangas as a camp site by some soldiers. Domingo invited “Mutya”, 17, to cel- Amado Balmes, 4th Batangas CAFGU On May 6, 2015, “Tess” was alone ebrate the anniversary of the 16th IB in the house when Galot entered at a military camp in Baras, Rizal. At Human “Marie”, 26 November 9, 2010 | Near Global City, Taguig City and raped her. After Galot, another the camp, the soldiers offered cake Lt. Col. Theodore Dizon, Chief of Staff-

Rights Army Support Command soldier, Daniel, also raped “Tess”. and water which made Mutya, her in Num5 3 rs Two months later, on July 4, “Tess” cousin, and a friend to fall into deep "Chona", 15, (7 counts of rape) was playing with her classmates after sleep. “Mutya” was raped by Barsaga. Aug. 23 – Sep. 30, 2010 Brgy. Rangas, Juban, Sorsogon school when Jay-ar, also a soldier, led Shortly, “Mutya” showed signs PFC Hamandre Flores (aka Ryan Alexis), her to a grassy portion of a field and of trauma: blank stares, refusal to eat 49th IBPA raped her. The case of “Tess” was later and would not sleep. She would alter- used as an excuse by Congresswoman nately sing and shout, “Alexander Back to HOME

Perpetrator Barsaga, you’re under arrest for child Due to poverty and shame, fami- abuse. Bukas pupugutan ka na ng ulo! lies of the victims would opt to just Desaparecidos (Tomorrow, you will be beheaded!)”. accept monetary offers and be silent The resident doctor at a mental about the rape. health center confirmed “Mutya” Aside from rape, there were was suffering from trauma. at least 34 reported incidents of Valeriano Masaang Jr. a.k.a sexual molestation from July “striker”, an assistant of an officer of 2010-December 2015. The cases the 2nd Infantry Division, raped a range from verbal abuse and sexist 12-year-old girl in June 2012. “Nini” remarks to the mashing of private was using the washroom when parts. Masaang, who was drunk, went in These heinous acts were not and punched Nini and started to isolated cases that could be attrib- Enforced disappearance is not Sitio Salabantaran saw six company touch her private parts. He threat- uted to individual “bad eggs” in the a thing of the past. It continues to guards carrying something wrapped ened to kill her mother if she said military. The act of rape served as a this day in spite of the passage of in canvass that was loaded into a a word. To further intimidate her, terror tactic to shame and silence the Anti-Enforced Disappearance truck which left a trail of blood. Masaang took out a knife and put it young girls, women, their families Law in 2012. In fact, two days after Calaba never came out of from the on the floor for Nini to see while she and the community. BS Aquino signed it into a law, DMCI outpost and had since been was being raped. This barbarism should be Noel Espisona and Olalio Gonzaga, declared “missing”. There were many more rape condemned, and military offi- farmers residing in Palanas, Masbate, Calaba is Public Information victims by soldiers and paramilitary cials who employ this tactic in became victims of enforced disap- officer of KIDUMA, an organization forces that remained undocumented. their counterinsurgency program pearance. The perpetrators were opposed to the logging and mining The victims and their families were should be punished. BS Aquino, as members of the Milagros Municipal projects of David M. Consunji, Inc. afraid and ashamed to report or file commander-in-chief of the Armed police. After Espisona and Gonzaga, (DMCI), which displaced peasants a complaint. In most cases, victims Forces of the Philippines, will be 13 more were abducted and were and Manobo Lumad from their were either threatened to prevent held accountable for the rape not never surfaced. farms and ancestral lands. them from filing a case and/or were only of our nation but also of our As of December 31, 2015, Brothers Philip Poloyapoy, 31, offered money as compensation. daughters. there are 30 victims of enforced Fil John, 24, Philims, 22, failed to go disappearances. home in Sitio Bagong Silang, Bayugan In the morning of April 30, 3, Agusan del Sur on November 1, 2015, John Calaba was invited for 2014. The three were only supposed a meal by Christopher dela Cruz, to get things from their payag (nipa Loloy Aquino and Jayjay Cruz to hut) in their farm and had informed the DMCI or Consunji compound’s their mother, Julia, they would be guard outpost in Brgy. Sabanal, back immediately. But the three Lebak, . Calaba went never made it home. with the guards who had been per- Earlier in the morning, the sistent in “befriending” him. brothers already had an encounter When Timoteo Asong passed with soldiers on their way to their by the outpost, Calaba invited him payag. One of the soldiers fired at in also. Some 20 minutes later, Asong Philip, who was crossing the river heard gunfire coming from the because their airguns looked like outpost. The sporadic gunfire lasted M-16 rifles. The soldiers also inter- until around 10:00 am. When the rogated them, asking about NPA villagers went to the outpost, the presence in the area. The soldiers also guards drove them away claiming threatened to shoot them should the there were “enemies” and they might NPA ambush them. The next day, get caught in the crossfire. When Fil John was among the dead bodies the gunfire subsided, a resident at carried by soldiers in the nearby Back to HOME

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List of Desaparecidos village of Consuelo, Bunawan town. but were immediately released and under the Aquino Administration Philip and Philims were never found. sent home. Mohammad and son A witness told Julia that the three never came back home. were seen in the company of soldiers Colleagues only knew that on Renato Deliguer, 21 Novito Gabriel, 33 Ben Villeno, 43 from the 75th IBPA the night they August 27, 2013, he rode a bus in Agustito Ladera, 38 November 20, 2011 August 27, 2013 disappeared. Sta. Rosa, . That was the last September 1, 2010 Cadiz City, Sta. Rosa. Laguna Marihatag, Surigao del Sur On July 23, 2014, Mohammad time they communicated with Ben Muin Kahal Hanja, 40 Lando Cailo, 45 Abdulkarim and son Mehad Villeno. Villeno’s last text message Mohammad were abducted by the said he was on his way home to Alfredo Bucal, 62 January 24, 2012 December 10, 2013 Tomas Sayto City, Basilan Matuguinao, Samar Alpha Company of the 45th Infantry and that there were men November 10, 2010 Battalion at a checkpoint in Brgy. who looked like soldiers following Tuy, Batangas Monico del Castillo Romulo dela Cruz, 42 Meta, Datu Unsay, Maguinanao. him. Villeno was former president August 27, 2012 Feb. 24, 2014 Upon hearing the abduction from an of Lakas Manggagawang Nagkakaisa Reynold Esurez, 17 Lagonoy, Camarines Sur Roxas, Isabela eyewitness, Mariam Uy Acob, a close sa Honda, a workers union at Honda January 26, 2011 Manay, Davao Oriental relative of the victims, immediately Cars Philippines, and also of the Leonardo Mally, 40 Rolly Losa, 27 went to the detachment of the Alpha Organized Labor in Line Industries September 29, 2012 May 4, 2014 Company. Soldiers and their com- and Agriculture (OLALIA), a labor Felix Balaston Columbio, Sultan Kudarat Catubig, Northern Samar March 23, 2011 manding officer informed Acob that federation affiliated with Kilusang Macalelon, Quezon Mohammad Abdulkarim and his son Mayo Uno (KMU or May First Noel Espisona, 39 Mohammad Abdulkarim Olalio Gonzaga Mehad were in their custody earlier Movement). Florante Rivas Mehad Mohammad, minor December 23, 2012 July 3, 2014 May 5, 2011 Palanas, Masbate Datu Unsay, Maguindanao San Agustin, Surigao del Sur Jully Devero, 56 Basher Mursalum, 60 Philip Poloyapoy, 31 Gerald Abale, 32 January 23, 2013 Philem Poloyapoy, 22 Patalon, Zamboanga City November 1, 2014 Micheal Celeste, 24 Rosario, Agusan del Sur The long list of names of the victims of human rights violations under July 19, 2011 the BS Aquino regime goes on, as the regime implements the last MAGALONA, Negros Occidental Benito Dalay, 53 June 19, 2013 John Calaba, 28 phase of Oplan Bayanihan. So is the list of crimes this regime has Guagua, April 30, 2015 committed and which BS Aquino should soon face in court as he ends Ayong Hubasan Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat October 9, 2011 his term of office. Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte Bryan Epa, 34 Jomar Lobiano, 18 July 21, 2013 Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya November 19, 2015 Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte

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53 ACRONYMS

ACT Alliance of Concerned Teachers ICHRP International Coalition for Human NICA National Intelligence Coordinating RTC Regional Trial Court AFP Armed Forces of the Philippines Rights in the Philippines Agency SAF Spacial Action Force ALCADEV Alternative Learning Center ID Infantry Division NIPAR New Indigenous People’s Army Sanmatrida San Fernando Matigsalug Tribal Datus Reform for Agricultural and Livelihood IDF Investment Defence Force SC Supreme Court Development, Inc. NPA New People’s Army IDPA Infantry Division, Philippine Army SCAA Special CAFGU Active Auxiliary APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation OBL Oplan Bantay Laya IHL International Humanitarian Law Selda Society of Ex-Detainees Against ARMM Autonomous Region in Muslim IP Indigenous People OLALIA Organized Labor Association in Line Detention and Arrest Mindanao Industries and Agriculture (KMU) ITDF Inter-Territorial Defense Force SPO Sorsogon People’s Organization Bayan Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New OpBay Oplan Bayanihan Patriotic Alliance) JASIG Joint Agreement on Safety and STTICLC Salupungan Ta Tanu Igkanugon Immunity Guarantees PA Philippine Army Community Learning Center Brgy. Barangay (community or village) JOR Joint Order on Rewards Pamana Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan TADECO Development Corporation BPSO Barangay Peacekeeping and Security (Peaceful and Prosperous Officer JPAG Justice and Peace Action Group Communities) TF Task Force BS Benigno Simeon (Aquino) Kadamay Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap Pamatid-CQ Pagkakaisa ng Magsasaka at TRIOM Tribal Reform Indigenous Organising in Mindanao BULIF Bungkatol Liberation Front Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of Tagapagtaguyod ng Ikalawang Distrito People’s Rights ng Quezon UCCP United Church of Christ in the CAFGU Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Philippines Unit Kasaka Kahugpungan Alang sa Kalambuan PFTC Panay Fair Trade Center UP University of the Philippines CARHRIHL Comprehensive Agreement on Kasilo Kaugalingong Sistema sa Piston Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Respect for Human Rights and Igpasasindog to Lumadnong Ogpaan Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide US United States International Humanitarian Law Kiduma Kisasabanay Dulangan Manobo PNP Philippine National Police VFA Visiting Forces Agreement CMO Civil-Military Operations Kitacom Kiblawan, Tampakan, Columbio, QC Quezon City Cordis-RDS Cordillera Disaster Response and Malungon Development Services KMP Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas Courage Confederation for Unity, Recognition (Peasant Movement of the and Advancement of Government Philippines) Employees KMU Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First CPP Communist Party of the Philippines Movement) DILG Department of Interior and Local LRT Light Rail Transit Government MRT Metro Rail Transit DMCI David M. Consunji Inc. MUFAC Municipal Farmers Association in DND Department of National Defense Carigara DSWD Department of Social Welfare and NADECOR Nationwide Development Corporation Development NBP New Bilibid Prisons ED Enforced Disappearance NCIP National Commission on Indigenous EDCA Enhanced Defence Cooperation Peoples Agreement NDF National Democratic Front GPH Government of the Republic of the NDFP National Democratic Front of the Philippines Philippines IB Infantry Battalion NFSW National Federation of Sugar Workers IBPA Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army NGO Non-government organization

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