Global human rights group decries Sorsogon massacre of 5 Filipino farmers amid pandemic
Global human rights group decries Sorsogon massacre of 5 Filipino farmers amid pandemic
Philippines still plagued by killings and arrests of food producers
By Sarah De Leon
ManilaToday.net
“It alarms us that even Filipino farmers, who are food security front liners in a country barely winning the battle against the COVID-19, have become targets of the Philippine government’s more brutal crackdown,” says Peter Murphy, Chairperson of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP).
In a statement, ICHRP, a global network of human rights advocates, “strongly condemned the killing of farmers in this time of the pandemic.”
“On top of the already slumped agriculture and distressed food producers, the relentless killings and attacks have wreaked fear in the country’s rural areas,” the group said.
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