Alert Update: May 18, 2006

In recent weeks, APIT TAKO (Alyansa dagiti Pesante iti Taeng Kordilera or Peasant Alliance in the Cordillera Homeland) leader Virgilio Aniceto has been tailed by three men, one boarding the jeepney with him everytime he heads home, and two following the jeepney on a motorcycle, also of the racer type which Doton’s killers rode. In Aniceto’s home barrio. Click here for full text

Alert Update: April 4, 2006

On March 21, 2006, at around 11:30 AM, police officers from the Investigation Section of the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) visited the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) office and interviewed CPA Secretary General Mr. Windel Bolinget on the surveillance and threats Cordillera political activists. Click here for full text

Alert Update: March 9, 2006

We have received reliable information that leaders of partylists and people’s organizations in the Cordillera are being targeted for liquidation by the military’s death squads which have so far claimed three innocent lives last year in this part of the country. Included in the military’s hitlist are Ms. Joan Carling, chairperson of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA), Windel Bolinget, CPA secretary general; Fernando Mangili, CPA vice chair and secretary general of the Alyansa Dagiti Pesante iti Taeng Kordilyera (APIT TAKO), Bayan Muna leaders Manuel Loste and Jose Cawiding; APIT TAKO Chairperson Julian Gayumba, and Xavier Akien, secretary general of the Mankayan-Quirino-Tadian-Cervantes Danggayan a Gunglo (MAQUITACDG). The MAQUITACDG is an inter-municipality alliance protesting the mining activities of Lepanto Mining in Mankayan. Click here for full text