Benjamin Bayles News Today

“It is a resounding and indubitable proof that extrajudicial killings had been committed by state security forces, in this instance by members of the military. The government cannot, with any credibility say that there are no extrajudicial killings much less its security forces are not engaging in such atrocious acts and more than that, that it is an orchestrated and premeditated policy and practice.”

It took 12 years for activists to score a legal victory in the 2010 killing of a Bayan Muna coordinator and activist in Negros Occidental — but one rights lawyer who worked to see the accused military personnel jailed was no longer able to witness this win.

Two soldiers of the Philippine Army have been found guilty by the Bacolod Regional Trial Court of murder in connection with the killing of activist Benjamin Bayles in 2010 .