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schema:articleBody	The Philippines' human rights watchdog said Monday it has launched an investigation after nine people were killed in a series of raids by security forces targeting alleged communist insurgents. All the people killed or arrested in Sunday's coordinated operation near Manila were unarmed activists, leftist group Bayan said. But National Police chief Debold Sinas said the operation -- involving police and military personnel -- was staged in response to reports that the suspects were in the "illegal possession of firearms". Nine people were killed and 15 arrested during the raids, he said. The incident came two days after President Rodrigo Duterte -- whose controversial drug war has cost thousands of lives -- repeated an order for security forces to "ignore human rights" and kill communist rebels. The independent Commission on Human Rights said it had dispatched a team to investigate the killings and arrests, as it urged the government to do the same. "Activists are not necessarily terrorists and there should be a differentiation between those who take up arms and those who merely exercise their constitutional right to form and join associations, organisations as well as petition the government for redress of its grievances," spokeswoman Jacqueline de Guia told AFP on Monday. Hundreds of activists, journalists and lawyers have been killed since Duterte took power in 2016, rights groups say. Many died after being accused of supporting the decades-old Maoist insurgency that the populist president has vowed to crush before the end of his six-year term in 2022. Bayan said police had used "questionable search warrants" in Sunday's operation that targeted "legal activists" -- not members of communist terrorist groups as alleged by police. One of its own coordinators in Cavite province, south of Manila, was among the dead, it added. "A policeman makes a wild allegation that you are in possession of just one hand grenade and a judge will sign a search warrant that could lead to your arrest or death," said the group, which campaigns for workers, farmers and other marginalised sectors. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the government would probe the killings -- but defended the use of deadly force when necessary. "If your opponent has guns that can kill you, you wouldn't wait to get shot at and killed," he said. str-mff-rbl-amj/rhb/jfx
schema:headline	Philippine rights watchdog probes deadly anti-communist raids
schema:mentions	The Independent Populism Grenade Search warrant Armed Forces of the Philippines Deadly force Harry Roque Cavite Human rights Manila Rodrigo Duterte President of the Philippines Philippines Bayan I Nepalese Civil War RHB Bank Indonesian National Police Anti-communism
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schema:datePublished	2021-03-08 (xsd:date)
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