II is highly unusual for the office of President Joe Biden in the White House to speak out directly and offer condolences to a victim of human rights violations in the Philippines with whom it is strengthening military cooperation by occupying nine Philippine military bases.

The recent murder of Alex Dolorosa, a young, dedicated and committed Filipino labor rights worker, who was brutally killed in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, is one of many murders of human rights workers that have continued to shock the international human rights community. Alex was a committed human rights worker, one of the young leaders whom this country needs to challenge the evil exploitation and oppression of workers rights, rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

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