Duterte lets loose its wheel of terror in Mindanao

“Consistent with the militarist and fascist tradition of state security forces who came up with the cruel and inhuman wheel of torture, Duterte cooks up his own upgraded and vicious version – the wheel of terror. State terrorism has become more rampant, more apparent as martial law ravages Mindanao. With Duterte’s counterinsurgency program compounded by military rule, the wheel of terror has been set in motion, fully implemented by the state’s entire machinery,“ said Karapatan Deputy Secretary General Roneo Clamor, in a forum on the impact of martial law in indigenous and peasant communities in Mindanao on February 26, 2018 at the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) Ecumenical Center.