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“Will Aquino stand proud before the community of nations giving the red carpet to the high and mighty yet red-tag those who are not?”
“I was accompanying 36 students of the Misfi academy when this happened. They also brought the students with me. We were interrogated.”
“Our family is hurting that we cannot be with Nur-Aiza. We long to be with her again.”
“This shows how desperate Aquino is to silence our calls to junk Apec, all for his masters.”
“You think you can hide the people’s protest? But as we leave Liwasang Bonifacio, we move closer to the venue of the summit.”
Members of the Philippine Army’s 23rd infantry battalion reportedly told the community to burn down the school.
From September to October, three Lumád, including a minor, were killed by suspected members of the Dela Mance paramilitary group, which is affiliated with the dreaded Alamara.
“If he is dead, return his remains to his family. We just want him back.”
These young women are among the many children of activists who have taken their parents’ place in the fight for justice and democracy.
Two weeks after the Manilakbayan arrived in Manila, another Lumád leader was killed by a paramilitary group, the Alamara, in Davao del Norte province.
The Manilakbayan ng Mindanao continues to get support in spite of being called “unsightly, unsanitary, and infiltrated with threat groups.”
“Justice can't be bought with politicking, with cheap tricks.”
“Instead of adequately addressing the sustainable livelihood needs of the farmers, the government trample upon the economic and human rights of the farmers. Following reports of indiscriminate firing from the military, farmers are forced to flee from their homes and sources of livelihood.”
“We are being driven out of our ancestral lands, now, even here at Liwasang Bonifacio, we are also being evicted?”
“There is no middle ground to justice. There are only the perpetrator and the victims. And in our case, the poor majority of the Filipino people are often the victims of state-perpetrated violence.”
“He spoke with a forked tongue even on the witness stand, and remorselessly justified his worn-out anti-communist bigotry to sanction his and his men’s actions amounting to heinous rights violations and crimes against humanity.”
“What the CHR fails to show, is that the Lumad themselves are being targeted by the military – with or without the presence of the NPA.”
“There are personal accounts from the victims themselves. These are enough grounds for charges.”
By the end of the concert, it was the children themselves who performed.
A Lumád leader from White Culaman village in Bukidnon just wants to return to the bucolic life, when there were no soldiers to ruin the peace.
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