Grief and rage
By DEE...
“This is by far the worst attack against the indigenous peoples.”
“There’s no safe place under Duterte’s fascist dictatorship, especially for children."
Indigenous groups call on President Duterte to stop the implementation of Oplan Bayanihan, to which they attribute the continuing killings and harassment on progressives.
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.
Two weeks after the Manilakbayan arrived in Manila, another Lumád leader was killed by a paramilitary group, the Alamara, in Davao del Norte province.
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.
“We are demanding an investigation without the presence of the military because any investigation with their presence is useless.”
“Their murder is the murder of the peoples’ soul.”
“These killings are under the context of the counterinsurgency program which is running short on a deadline.”
The three men brutally slain in the rampage by a paramilitary group in Surigao del Sur were laid to rest, amid calls for justice and the prosecution of their killers, suspected of following military orders.
“We urge law enforcement authorities to do their part so that the killing rampage of these armed paramilitary groups can be immediately stopped.”
“Where is the so-called daang matuwid?”
“Not a single cent to the military monsters.”
Grief, anger and indignation sent protesters out to the streets last week, calling for justice for victims of killings by paramilitary and military groups in Mindanao, and other parts of the country.
"These killings were not isolated case. These are part of the serial killings happening now in Mindanao, and in some parts of the country, whose perpetrators are military elements and their own-created militia.”
“President Aquino’s inaction on EO 546 is tantamount to a presidential imprimatur on these killings and violations.”
Paramilitary groups, suspected of collusion with the military, have killed five people in five days, and caused massive forced evacuation.
"Do everything to get out, so that there will be someone who will tell what really happened here."
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