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News in Pictures: Maco Farmers Continue to Receive Threats from the Military

Progressive groups in Southern Mindanao Region, led by human-rights group Karapatan, on Tuesday revealed that farmers in Maco, Davao del Norte, continue to experience threats and psychological torture from members of the Philippine military. According to Karapatan-SMR, the farmers have been tagged as members of the New People's Army and were included in The Order of Battle, which forced them and their families to evacuate their homes.

Bulatlat Contributors | Nov 10, 2010

CHR to Military: Explain Continued Use of ‘Orders of Battle’

In forum, CHR officials and journalists from the NUJP bewail the use by the military of OBs. CHR chairperson Leila de Lima says the AFP claimed to have stopped using OBs but replaced these with “watch lists” – and military officials could not explain to her the difference.

Ronalyn V. Olea | Jun 18, 2009

Military Admits Existence of Order of Battle

By defining what "dominated," "organized" and "targeted" means in its order of battle, the army's 10th Infantry Division practically admitted that the document indeed came from them. Some of those listed in the OB are calling on international groups to investigate this "campaign of vilification" by the AFP.

Ronalyn V. Olea | May 30, 2009

Nuns Decry Inclusion of Church Workers in Military’s ‘Order of Battle’

An association of 350 Catholic nuns from 40 congregations in Mindanao expressed outrage over the inclusion of Church people to the reported ‘order of battle’ of the 10th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In a document titled “JCICC ‘AGILA’...

Bulatlat Staff | May 26, 2009

‘Order of Battle’ Suggests Murder of Journalists Part of Official Policy — NUJP

The National Union of Journalists in the Philippines, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, and the Reporters Without Borders condemned what they called as an “abomination,” the military’s Order of Battle, the latest version of which included the NUJP and journalist Carlos Conde, a correspondent for the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and GlobalPost.com.

Ronalyn V. Olea | May 23, 2009

The Human Rights Summit: Will It Put a Stop to the Killings?

Even though it was hailed by various sectors in society as historic and unprecedented, human rights advocates doubted if the human rights summit initiated by the Supreme Court would be enough to curb the festering problems of extrajudicial killings and enforced...

Ronalyn V. Olea | Jul 21, 2007

IFI Priest Unfazed by Threats from the Military

Rev. Fr. Dionito M. Cabillas or Fr. Diony to his parishioners and colleagues, received information that he was included in the ‘top ten’ of the military’s order of battle. BY RONALYN V. OLEA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Bulatlat On March 12, at around 8:25 a.m., Fr. Rex...

Ronalyn V. Olea | Apr 4, 2009

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