LUCENA CITY —- The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) strongly condemned the spate of extrajudicial killings and arrests carried out by government forces in Southern Tagalog.
“The murders and mass arrest of activists mark a heightening of the tyrannical Duterte regime’s dirty war against all patriotic and democratic forces in Southern Tagalog, Bicol and across the country,”
Marco Valbuena, CPP information officer, said in a statement Monday.
He added: “These attacks confirm that Duterte is the number one terrorist in the country today.”
“To justify the extrajudicial killings, the military and police have resorted to their trite claims that the victims were armed and tha…
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