Intense state-related violence carry over from 2025
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.
