INSURGENCY continues to claim lives in Central Visayas despite and even because of how government is addressing the insurgency and its causes. Illegal arrests, use of excessive force during police operations and planting of evidence, not to mention extrajudicial killings (EJKs) - believed to be the handiwork of the police - produce deep hatred. It likely even drives some people underground. And it certainly doesn't help convince the doubters that the government is the protector of the people.

The police must enforce the law in a manner that doesn't prove the communist propaganda right. The police are supposed to be the good guys!

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