Tags: Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
All they want is to own the land that they have been tilling for generations but hacienderos (big landlords) have hired an armed group, which signed a peace pact with the government, to attack them.

Sidebar: The peace pact with the RPA–ABB

In Negros Occidental, children suffer worst blows of rights violations

A sad Christmas awaits a family of a Negros-based labor organizer who has been missing since Dec. 5. Negros cause-oriented groups say it is the handiwork of the military which the latter strongly denies. A military officer, however, is quick to accuse the missing labor organizer of being a member of the New People’s Army.…