The UP Third World Studies Center, founded in 1977, analyzes and develops alternative perspectives on Philippine, regional, and global issues.
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UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
On 1-7 June 2026, 12 died in Marcos’s drug war. 6 of 12 were pushers. More than half (7) were killed by non-state agents, including a woman w/ no known ties & partner of a drug convict. In Cotabato, a transaction gone wrong killed 4 pushers.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
In May 2026, the AFP claimed to have killed 8 more NPA members (Negros Occ., 5; Bicol, 2; Surigao del Sur, 1). In various incidents, 4 cops were killed and 2 from the AFP. In all, 26 were killed & 35 injured this month in state-related violence.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sandatahang…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
In May 2026, 16 were killed in Marcos’s drug war: 6 pushers, 4 users, 3 w/ drug records, 2 w/ no drug ties (police officers killed during buy-bust ops) & 1 HVI. A third of the killings (5) are from Cebu. 7 of 16 were killed by non-state agents.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
On 8-15 May 2026, 5 died in Marcos’s drug war. 3 of 5 victims were killed by non-state agents. Among them is a police officer w/ no known ties shot by a drug suspect who drew a gun during arrest in NegOcc. In Cebu, 2 women victims were killed.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
April 2026 has the most number of killings in state-related violence monitored so far by the Sandatahang Dahas: 69. Claiming they were NPA members in armed encounters (a claim denied by some victims' families), AFP killed 28 of the fatalities.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sandatahang…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
On 1-7 May 2026, 4 died in Marcos’s drug war. A police officer w/ no known drug ties was killed following a buy bust op gone wrong in Surigao del Norte. In Cavite, an ex-drug convict was killed 2 months after his release.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
In Apr 2026, 35 were killed in Marcos’s drug war: 12 pushers, 7 HVIs, 7 w/ drug records, 5 users & 4 w/ no known drug ties (a supporter of anti-drug ops, a police asset, a mistaken ID case, a police at a buy bust). State agents killed 19/35.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
In 2025, 390 individuals were killed and 520 were injured in reported incidents of state-related violence, as recorded by the Sandatahang Dahas.
Read full report: verafiles.org/articles/inten…
Read report on Trillion Peso March: verafiles.org/articles/april…
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sandatahang…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
On 24-30 April 2026, 6 died in Marcos’s drug war. Almost all were killed by unidentified assailants (5 of 6). The uncommon casualties include a woman in MagSur & in Cebu, a man w/ no known drug ties, shot as he was mistaken for someone else.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
On 16-23 April 2026, 17 died in Marcos’s drug war. 14 of 17 victims were killed by state agents in police & military ops. Among them were 10 members of Dawlah Islamiya (1 HVI, 9 pushers) killed in Lanao del Sur; 4 of them are women.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
The Sandatahang Dahas monitor of the UP TWSC recorded a total of 43 civilians injured by the police, in addition to 151 police members injured, from the September 21, 2025 protest.
Read the full report here: verafiles.org/articles/april…
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sandatahang…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
On 8-15 April 2026, 9 died in Marcos’s drug war. 4 of 9 victims were killed in NegOcc: 3 HVIs and a police officer w/no known drug ties killed during a buybust. In MagSur, a civilian, active in anti-drug ops, was shot by unidentified assailants.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
Read our February 2026 Sandatahang Dahas report on state-related violence in the Philippines written by UP Third World Studies Center university researcher Joel Ariate in Vera Files. verafiles.org/articles/state…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
There were no reported drug-related killings on 24-31 March 2026.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
LOOK: Students gathered Thursday at the Pillar Herrera Lecture Hall in the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy for “Kampihan kung Kampihan," the fourth and final lecture of the Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo Jr. Public Forum Series.
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
On 1-7 March 2026, 5 died in Marcos’s drug war. 3 were w/ prior drug records & were subject of police monitoring. Among them is a female victim in Cebu & a drug surrenderer in MagSur. In NegOcc, an unknown killer dumped the body of a drug user.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
On Feb 2026, 26 were killed & 153 injured in reported incidents of state-related violence. State agents harmed fellow state agents: 129 recruits were hazed by fellow PNP in Basilan & 4 AFP members (1 soldier, 3 CAFGU) were killed by fellow AFP.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sandatahang…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
In Feb 2026, 18 were killed in Marcos’s drug war: 11 pushers, 3 users, 2 w/ no drug ties (a police asset & a civilian shot during a police chase), 1 HVI & 1 w/ drug records. Non-state agents are top assailants w/ 7 of 18 killed.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/2026-source…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
269 died in the Philippine drug war last year. The Marcos administration continues to assert that their anti-drug campaign is bloodless. Read more in this report written by TWSC researchers Arrianne Louisse Fajardo and Joel Ariate Jr. in @verafiles.
verafiles.org/articles/269-d…
UP Third World Studies Center retweeted
In the first month of 2026, 37 were killed and 24 injured in reported incidents of state-related violence. Two body dumps in Bulacan were found to be police officers. In Region IX, two women were reportedly beaten by their state agent husbands.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sandatahang…
