People killed, arrested in Calabarzon legal activists, says Bayan; PNP defends ops By JOVILAND RITA, GMA News
Published March 8, 2021 11:30am Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) on Monday denied that the people killed and arrested in police-military operations in Calabarzon on Sunday were communist-terrorists as claimed by security forces. In a statement, Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes said these personalities are legal activists. All of those arrested and killed in CALABARZON on Bloody Sunday were legal activists, not personalities of alleged communist terrorist groups as the Philippine National Police claims, he said.
Nine activists were killed while six others were arrested in the simultaneous police-military operations pursuant to some search warrants.