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Kai Sorem Date of Passing: 20 April 2026Age: 26 years oldLocation: Toboso, Negros OcccidentalOccupation: Activist, community organizerStatus of perpetrator: Not charged (military) Kai was a Filipino-American activist who actively engaged in overseas organizing. She was living with and learning from the rural peasant communities in the plantations of Negros when the Armed Forces of the

Dee “Ka Dahlia” Supelenas Date of Passing: 28 April 2025Age: 25 years oldLocation: Kabankalan City, Negros OccidentalOccupation: ActivistStatus of perpetrator: Not charged (militarya) Dee Supelenas was a trans woman activist – alumna of UP Cebu, coordinator of NUSP Cebu, executive committee member of Anakbayan UP Cebu, and spokesperson of Kabataan Partylist Cebu. Known by her