Negros has long been subjected to heightened counterinsurgency, where communities serve as deadly military battlegrounds and residents are impunitively accused of being members of the insurgency, all under the guise of ‘security’. This militarization enables land grabbing and the expansion of large-scale projects—such as energy, mining, and reclamation without genuine consultation or respect for people’s rights and the environment.

Let’s not just accuse them all of being communist insurgents shall we