{"id":225244,"date":"2019-07-31T19:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=225244"},"modified":"2019-07-31T19:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:02:16","slug":"pnp-cries-foul-over-ph-tag-as-dangerous-place-for-land-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/31\/pnp-cries-foul-over-ph-tag-as-dangerous-place-for-land-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP cries foul over PH tag as &#8216;dangerous&#8217; place for land rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198952\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198952\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PNP chief, Gen. Oscar Albayalde said the PNP takes strong exception to the labeling done by Global Witness of the country as a deadly nation for land rights. (File photo by Joey O. Razon\/PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday refuted a Britain-based watchdog\u2019s claims alleging that the Philippines is the most dangerous place for land and environmental activists.<\/p>\n<p>PNP chief, Gen. Oscar Albayalde said the PNP takes strong exception to the labeling done by Global Witness of the country as a deadly nation for land rights.<\/p>\n<p>He said land disputes have always been a perennial source of conflict among people, and this has been among several motives behind some homicides investigated by the PNP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me assure that every incident of violence stemming from whatever motive is promptly investigated by the police with utmost priority,\u201d Albayalde said in a statement sent to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that the activities of the local communist movement in the countryside is also a factor in this armed conflict over land rights, and many tribal leaders, community officials and government security forces have died protecting land rights against insurgents who want to place these communities under their control,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>In its report, Global Witness said 164 land and environmental activists were killed in the country in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This number, it said, includes the nine sugarcane farmers who were gunned down in Sagay City, Negros Occidental in October last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday refuted a Britain-based watchdog\u2019s claims alleging that the Philippines is the most &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":198952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225245,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225244\/revisions\/225245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}