Statement on raiding of offices of activists in Bacolod City

Sanlakas condemns the raiding of the offices of and the arrests and detention of activists from National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), Bayan Muna and Gabriela in Bacolod City.

The raids, arrests and detention are part of the Duterte Government's Oplan Sauron, an aggressive, all-out anti-insurgency campaign being conducted in Negros through the combined forces of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

These acts are a display to silence, harass and intimidate progressive groups who remain critical of the Government's brazen disregard for fundamental rights and freedoms and rolling out of anti-worker and anti-poor economic policies such as TRAIN, Rice Tariffication Law, Contractualization, to name a few. Despite this, we will not be cowed.

We stand in solidarity with the people of Negros in fighting militarization and state terrorism.

We call on the people to condemn this latest episode of tyrannical abuse reminiscent of the dark days which Negros had had to endure under the Marcos Dictatorship.

#Resist