Death Squads in the Philippines have predictably started assassinating worker organisers. Orlando Abangan “Ka Lando” was shot dead on his way home in Talisay, Cebu in the Philippines on 17 September. Ka Lando was a well-known labour and human rights activist. Recently he had been a staunch critic of the Government’s campaign of mass killings of ‘drug users’ among Filipino working class communities. Ka Lando’s assassination is a clear sign that President Duterte’s unleashing of paramilitary death squads will have severe repercussions on the labour movement in the Philippines.
Death Squads in the Philippines have predictably started assassinating worker organisers. Orlando Abangan “Ka Lando” was shot dead on his way home in Talisay, Cebu in the Philippines on 17 September. Ka Lando was a well-known labour and human rights activist. Recently he had been a staunch critic of the Government’s campaign of mass killings of ‘drug users’ among Filipino working class communities. Ka Lando’s assassination is a clear sign that President Duterte’s unleashing of paramilitary death squads will have severe repercussions on the labour movement in the Philippines.
