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How State Violence in the Philippines is Propped Up by the U.S. w/ Human Rights Activist Brandon Lee (G&R 262)
The Philippines is one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, with 30 environmentalists murdered there in 2018. Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte notoriously called land and environmental activists communist sympathizers and terrorists in an effort to silence them.
In August, 2019, human rights activist and land defender Brandon Lee was the target of an assassination attempt by the Duterte government. He'd been living in the Cordillera region on the island of Luzon working with the Igorot people defending their land. The assassination attempt left him…
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