Toboso Probe Underway: CHR Subpoenas Army Files on Clash, but Some Families Refuse to Talk
CHR investigators, who recently conducted a walk-through at the site of the clash, say coordination with state security forces has…
CHR investigators, who recently conducted a walk-through at the site of the clash, say coordination with state security forces has…
Residents heard the first shots before sunrise. By afternoon, 19 people were dead — and a small community in Negros…
By Marchel P. EspinaRights Report Philippines TOBOSO, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL — Still reeling from the incident that claimed the life of…
Bullets recovered from five victims are consistent with high-velocity rifles. One woman may have bled to death. And no, none…
The Philippine government’s own human rights body released this week an important report on red-tagging, its second in six years.…
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Marcos administration has framed its response to Toboso as though the burden of proof rests with the…
When young people — some of them students and children — are killed in military encounters in the Philippine countryside,…
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Communist Party’s admission that nine of the 19 killed were not its combatants shifts the burden squarely…
A 12-hour running gunfight should leave plenty of evidence: spent casings, trampled paths, bloodstains, bullet holes in trees or structures.…
After 19 were killed in Negros Occidental, everyone calls for an investigation. History shows why that may not be enough.…