Youthful Rebellion
The corrupt system that breeds Insurgency ✏️ Glenn Junsay Pansensoy · 📁 National Affairs · ⏱️ 6 min read Why Our Youth Take to the Hills | Stolen Dreams & the Call of Rebellion Why Our Youth Take to the Hills: Stolen Dreams and the Call of Rebellion A reckoning with silence, sacrifice, and the faces behind the statistics Essay · Witness · Reflection A few days ago, in the rugged interior of Negros Occidental, a 22-year-old University of the Philippines student named Alyssa Alano was killed. The military reports an armed encounter with New People's Army rebels; she was among them, they say. The NPA counters that she was a civilian, there for community work. Nineteen dead from her side. Zero military casualties. No survivors to contradict the official line. I never met Alyssa. I can't say what she carried that day—a rifle, a notebook, or just hope—or what unfolded in those cha...