Kai Dana Sorem, a Filipina activist from Steilacoom, was one of two U.S. citizens killed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines earlier this month in a raid on an alleged communist stronghold. She was 26 years old.
On April 19 and 20, the AFP attacked several villages across Toboso, a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental. The forces killed 19 people, including Sorem, and displaced 168 families.
The Philippine military referred to the attack as a “legitimate armed encounter” against guerillas from the New People’s Army, the military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines…