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First of 2 parts THAT 30,000 figure is based on the Armed Forces of the Philippines' official list of soldiers killed by the New People's Army totaling 12,861 from 1975 to 2015; my estimate is that the number of police casualties is the same, and half that the number of village militia and "uncooperative" civilians executed by the communists. (The killing continues, but we have no data on the number of killed from 2016 to yesterday.) Note that 30,000 is 10 times the 3,000 allegedly killed by martial law forces according to the Human Rights Victims Compensation Board (and given...
