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Photos | Pinoy Weekly correspondent hurt as police disperse anti-militarization rally in Davao


Scores of protesters were hurt after police violently dispersed their protest rally in front of a military headquarters on Thursday, Feb. 13. According to Davao Today, almost 2000 farmers and small scale miners from Compostela Valley, including workers and urban poor of Davao City  protesting in front  of Eastern Mindanao Command Headquarters, were violently dispersed. […]

Bloodied face of Barry Ohaylan. (Kilab Multimedia)
Bloodied face of Barry Ohaylan. (Kilab Multimedia)

Scores of protesters were hurt after police violently dispersed their protest rally in front of a military headquarters on Thursday, Feb. 13.

According to Davao Today, almost 2000 farmers and small scale miners from Compostela Valley, including workers and urban poor of Davao City  protesting in front  of Eastern Mindanao Command Headquarters, were violently dispersed.

The protesters denounced the encampment of military inside their communities and demanded immediate pull out of soldiers.  Barry Ohaylan of the Kilab Multimedia and a Pinoy Weekly correspondent was badly hit  by truncheons of  police dispersal unit.

Photos of the dispersal, taken by Ohaylan and Kilab:

(KIlab Multimedia)
(Kilab Multimedia)
(KIlab Multimedia)
(KIlab Multimedia)

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