Atty. Catherine Dannug-Salucon, NUPL Cagayan Valley Coordinator, and former NUPL National Officer, was subjected to surveillance in her Quezon City residence.

The Philippine government finds paths only to new methods of repression and enforces the peace of the grave at home. Human rights monitors, including Karapatan, document a continuing pattern of violence: extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, and widespread attacks on rural communities. On April 19, state forces killed 19 people in Toboso, Negros Occidental, including civilians standing in solidarity with farmers asserting their land rights.