Farmer beheaded, rights groups alarmed at increasing abuse cases
Farmer beheaded, rights groups alarmed at increasing abuse cases
Guillen’s brother said that the victim went missing when he returned to his house after they have been advised by the military to evacuate the place because of an encounter between government forces and the New People’s Army. Reports say that his decomposing decapitated body was found at the base of a ravine near the encounter site in barangay Tan-awan.
By PAGHIMUTAD
Human rights groups expressed concern at the increase of abuses against farmers caught in the crossfire between the Philippine Army and the New People’s Army in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental.
Last September 26, Saturday, the decapitated body of Bernardo Guillen, 50, was found by a search party headed by his brother, nine days after Guillen went missing on September 17.
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