NUPL Visayas condemns attacks on human rights defenders in Negros
Duterte’s call for an all out war against the Left once again shed s the blood of the innocent. At about 2:30 pm, November 28, 2017 , . Emelisa Badayos of Karapatan Central Visayas, Elioterio Moises of the Mantapi Ebwan Farmers Association and a 23 year old Kabataan Partylist Member were gunned down in San Ramon, Bayawan, Negros Oriental. Badayos and Moises were killed while the other individual was rushed to the hospital. The victims were members of cause oriented and human rights organizations embarking on a fact - finding mission to verify reports of rampant human rights abuses in Negros due to intensified military operations in the island, including the assassination of almost a dozen individuals in Negros Oriental, particularly in Guihulngan City since July 2017. The human rights abuses that they sought to investigate were believed to be carried out by military and police personnel ostensibly in retaliation to an ambush allegedly perpetrated by the NPA. This