Sagay massacre
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The Sagay massacre occurred when a group of gunmen shot and killed nine sugarcane farmers, including four women and two children, while they were eating dinner in a makeshift tent on a farm in Sagay, Negros Occidental, on October 20, 2018.[6] The farmers were members of the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW),[7] and the massacre may have been motivated by ongoing conflicts over land reform in the Philippines.[2]
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Sagay massacre | |
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Part of 2017–19 Negros Island killings | |
Location | Sagay, Negros Occidental, Philippines |
Date | October 20, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-10-20) ~9:45 PM (PhST) |
Target | Sugarcane farmers |
Attack type | Shooting, massacre |
Weapons | |
Deaths | 9 |
No. of participants | 5 or 6 |
Motive | Land dispute[1] |
Accused | Former farmers of the land[2] Revolutionary Proletarian Army (New People's Army breakaway group)[3][4][5] |
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The massacre was part of a series of killings carried out in the Negros provinces against labelled Communists and their sympathizers, and follows the similarly motivated Escalante massacre of 1985.