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“Rep. Nancy Catamco will endanger not only the Manobo evacuees in Davao, but also all indigenous peoples groups in the Philippines.”
"Do everything to get out, so that there will be someone who will tell what really happened here."
“Refusal and resistance is an indictment of the state that boasts of respecting the rights of the indigenous peoples.”
“It is imperative for the government to first address the call of Lumad evacuees to demilitarize their communities so that they can return.”
Katribu calls for the scrapping of Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan and the dismantling of a government commission before the United Nations Human Rights Council.
"What they did yesterday was, they showed a picture of how they violate human rights."
"The Lumads have sought refuge in UCCP after fleeing their villages that have been overrun by the military. Now the police are driving them away with brute force.”
“If she wants to help, she should listen to us, because we experienced these abuses.”
In the past five years, operations of military and paramilitary groups have killed, threatened, displaced indigenous communities and close down their schools.
“Sulong Katribu offers an alternative and genuine representation for the most oppressed, least represented and discriminated sector.”
Lumad chiefs say they will not leave until their children are back in school.
“The ‘NPAs’ the Army is pursuing could be farmer-leader Aida Seisa and her family.”
"It must be the will of God that your schools continue to serve as we see new teachers volunteering."
“The Filipino people must demonstrate on World Environment Day our commitment to protect our natural heritage and ecology by opposing DMCI’s coal-fired power plant in the globally-renowned ecological treasure that is the province of Palawan.”
“We have been waiting all our lives for the government to build a school in our communities, but now that we are able to build schools with our own perseverance, why do they want to close it?”
Parents and children walk for hours to attend their 'moving up ceremony' which was delayed by accusations of the military and paramilitary groups that the school is supposedly run by communist rebels. The school denied it.
Aspiring students want the concerned government agencies to check on the operation of paramilitary group Alamara so they can go back to school.
"We demand from the BS Aquino government to immediately surface John Calaba.”
The soldiers clipped farmer Ruben Wating’s left thumbnail with pliers. Then, another soldier pulled out a .45-caliber gun, aimed it at his forehead, and threatened to kill him.
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