AT least nine activists were killed during a coordinated crackdown by security forces on civil liberties groups tagged as “communist fronts” in four provinces just south of the capital Manila.
Lieutenant-Colonel Chitadel Gaoiran, a police spokesman, confirmed that six were killed in Rizal province, two in Batangas province and one in Cavite province.
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