A 78-year-old leader of a local peasant group was gunned down Friday afternoon inside a military reservation in Central Luzon, and militants have pointed to the military as suspect.

Pascual Guevarra, a farmer, was shot dead around 4:45 p.m. on July 9 by two motorcycle-riding men who went inside his house in Brgy. San Isidro in Laur town, situated inside the Fort Magsaysay Military Reservation in Nueva Ecija province.

He was the second activist to be killed since President Benigno “Noynoy" Aqu...

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