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Intense state-related violence carry over from 2025

By Aidrielle Raymundo

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May 2, 2026

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17-minute read

As this is Sandatahang Dahas’s first annual report using its own method of tracking and counting state-related violence in the Philippines, it cannot yet conclude on year-on-year trends or to say with certainty that this year was more or less violent than the last. It has limited its discussion to the recognizable nexus of state violence, to the circumstances that often give rise to assaults and who resists them, and to the bodies found in the familiar geography of an unending insurgency.Monitoring of incidents in the first months of this year, however, indicates that 2026 may just be as deadly to insurgents, civilians, and state agents alike. Or even be much worse.

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Jeepney drivers on life support: When the math does not add up

By AYANNAH RAVEN NUYLES

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Apr 28, 2026

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9-minute read

Jeepney drivers are among the hardest hit with oil price hikes that have made it a struggle for them to survive. Ayuda (aid) from the government aside, how do they see themselves fighting to continue driving as their livelihood?

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IO walang sinasanto: Influence Operations ginawang ‘santo’ si Kian delos Santos

By Vincent Galaura and Valerie Joyce Nuval

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Apr 27, 2026

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2-minute read

Habang patuloy ang pagdinig sa kaso ni dating pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa International Criminal Court, naglipana naman sa Facebook ang mga maling naratibong santo na umano ang naturang 17-anyos na biktima ng extrajudicial killings noong panahon ng drug war.

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Health advocates call for higher taxes to cut alcohol-related diseases, deaths

By AYANNAH RAVEN NUYLES

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Apr 27, 2026

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5-minute read

Medical experts and health advocates are urging the government to raise alcohol taxes to reduce diseases and social harms, saying 47 deaths daily are attributed to alcohol-related diseases.

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April 4 Nueva Ecija arrest reveals continuing probe on Trillion Peso March protest

By Aidrielle Raymundo

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Apr 20, 2026

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12-minute read

No single event in 2025 produced as many incidents of state-related violence as the September 21 protest. The Sandatahang Dahas monitor of the UP Third World Studies Center recorded a total of 390 killings and 520 injuries resulting from incidents of state-related violence throughout 2025. Of these, 194 injuries erupted from that protest alone, with 151 of these being police officers, and 43 being civilians.

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