LA TRINIDAD, Benguet: Two local leaders of an indigenous people’s (IP) group, Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) in Ifugao, are reportedly on a drug watch list, sending fears that the report may lead to human rights abuses in grassroot communities.

“We call on the immediate delisting and for a stop to the attacks on people’s organizations in the guise of the drug war,” Santos Mero, secretary general of the CPA, said.

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