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“The efforts of the school to help us improve our lives have long been vilified. The government said our teachers taught us how to handle guns and rifles. That is a lie.”
The decision was based solely on the testimony of Bayani Domingo, who claimed to be a former member of the New People’s Army before he surrendered to the military in 2006.
“Four years later, all the supposed task forces and committees formed by the Aquino regime to look into the case were proven inutile.”
“By resurrecting a ‘dead’ case against Dr. Quijano, the banana industry appears hell-bent on making sure that no one gets in the way of their hazardous practices.”
“This latest attack against an environmental defender is clearly part of the war of plunder under the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Oplan Bayanihan, targeting critics and opponents of destructive large-scale mining and other forms development aggression .”
“He might try to run away again and never to be found.”
“What could be the motive of the robber in taking only the CPU and leaving other more valuable things? Information.”
"The truth about the killings and forcible evacuation has been clear since the first week of the incident, yet in the delay, many lies have been forcefully fed to the public to justify the systematic military operation against Lumad schools, progressive organizations and communities in Mindanao.”
“By experience, tribal leaders who were repeatedly branded and investigated by soldiers end up dead.”
Bulatlat.com compiles its articles on Lumad paramilitary groups in Mindanao, which show a worsening trend from the Arroyo regime to the current Aquino administration.
“The recent slapping of trumped-up charges of kidnapping and homicide against us 69 individuals bares the despotic and authoritarian nature of this regime.”
“I do not understand why the military is attacking our schools. They do not know its impact on our community.”
The GPH should respect previously signed agreements especially the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL).
Even as the grief and rage over the spate of killings in Surigao del Sur has yet to wane, another Lumad activist was slain in the neighboring province of Agusan del Sur.
“All we want is for our children to know how to read, write and have a better life ahead of them. The Lumad took a stand to protect the environment and give our children education but they don’t want us to do that. The government and the capitalists want us to remain uneducated, primitive and weak.”
The mothers of the two missing UP students suspect “The Butcher” is seeking acquittal through a senate seat.
In spite of military denials of links with paramilitary groups, Army soldiers and the paramilitary group Alamara continue to hold sway in southern Mindanao.
“Is the CHR serious with its intention to get to the roots of the problems of the Lumad evacuees?”
“They think that because they threaten us, we would be silenced.”
“The commissioners asked us more on the whereabouts of the New People’s Army, if they are also staying in our communities.”
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