“Last year, Karapatan documented a disturbing trend of attacks against farmers, peasant organizations and communities en masse. We are no longer talking about individual violations, but affronts and abuses that threaten and endanger entire organizations and communities. The Duterte regime has taken its onslaught on people’s rights at an unprecedented scale. Though more pronounced in Mindanao, the same pattern can also be observed in different parts of the country,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay on the mass illegal arrest of farmers.
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