Front Line is deeply saddened to report that on 28 September 2009, human rights defender Mr Aladino “Datu Mansubaybay” A. Badbaran was killed in an ambush by unidentified armed men in Barangay Balit, San Luis, Agusan del Norte in the Philippines. His wife, Mrs Demesia Badbaran, received a gunshot wound to the shoulder during the attack.