Liyang Network

‼️Release Chantal‼️Filipino-American Activist held in custody by the Armed Forces of the Philippines

On Jan 1, the Armed Forces of the Philippines violated international humanitarian law by indiscriminately bombing and strafing a community in Occidental Mindoro. The attack led to the death of three Mangyan (Indigenous) children and integrating student researcher Jerlyn Rose Doydora, as well as the displacement of 188 families.

Chantal Anicoche, a 25 year old Fil-Am activist from Maryland was integrating with indigenous Mangyan communities in the area. As an international advocacy network supporting the calls to action of environmental, Indigenous and human rights defenders in Mindanao, we commend Chantal’s example of going to the Philippines to learn directly from Mangyan communities who face similar issues of extractive mining and destructive renewable energy projects. We decry the violent targeting of the Mindoro people by the AFP for their resistance to these extractive projects.

Liyang Network joins the demands for the immediate release of Chantal Anicoche and her safe return home. Please sign and circulate the petition below organized by the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP-US), Malaya Movement USA, and the Philippines Human Rights Act Coalition to help build international pressure.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/surface-chantal-anicoche/.

Release Chantal Anicoche!
Justice for the victims of the Cabacao Massacre!
Stop the bombings! AFP out of Abra de Ilog!
Defend Mindoro!