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It linked these operations to sustained military support from the United States, particularly through Foreign Military Financing (FMF), which has risen from about $40 million annually from prior 2024 to a $500-million package announced in July 2024, alongside expanded joint exercises such as Balikatan.
“The root of decades-long suffering on the island of Negros is the exploitation of sugar workers by powerful haciendas, heightened by counter-insurgency military operations that seek to suppress dissent and organization through manifold killings and human rights violations throughout history."
“It cannot simply be that the military’s account is accepted at face value when there are witnesses and evidence pointing to a different truth. What happened in Toboso must be investigated clearly and impartially."
"They can cut all the flowers, but they cannot stop spring from coming. They cannot stop the reckoning of the people they have starved, displaced, and killed."
MAD said “disinformation thrives when claims are amplified faster than facts, when doubt is dismissed rather than examined, and when scrutiny is framed as hostility.”
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