SOS Network said authorities forcibly entered the residence of Lumad leader Edwin Oribawan Sr., threatening his daughter and two other children.
Lumad leader arrested in Arakan, North Cotabato
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Friends and colleagues pay tribute to New Bataan 5
Friends and colleagues of the victims of New Bataan massacre, or the New Bataan 5, gathered on Sunday, March 6 in UP Diliman to celebrate their life and call for justice.
5 killed in Davao de Oro are civilians, not NPA, group says
“Throughout their years of service, Chad, Jurain, and Elgyn had been subjected to threats, harassment, intimidation, including death threats, red-tagging and terror-tagging, and surveillance. It is then even more deplorable that the people who take up the initiative to serve in far-flung communities, where the Duterte government cares little to address the needs of its residents, are targeted and killed,” SOS Network said.
Siblings in bakwit school, Inday and Toper mark the culmination of their education
The last four years for Lumad students like Inday and Toper seemed like a tug-of-war struggling for their right to learn, and fighting for their return to their ancestral lands.
Defense of Lumad schools, sanctuaries sought as attacks continue
“It hurts to see our school built on our unity as a community being shut down. It hurts that they are not respecting our rights.”
Lumad teacher, student recount ‘psychological torture’ while in police custody
“They told me we wouldn’t be released unless we admit to being rebels.” — Lumad teacher
FIRST PERSON | ‘Lumad students are not child warriors’
“It was indeed very enriching for me to be given the opportunity to teach the Lumad Junior and Senior High-School students. Likewise, it was very heart-wrenching as I had learned many things from them especially in their narratives of struggles to uphold ownership of their ancestral lands and their way of life as well as their fight for self-determination and liberation from the shackles of their oppressors.”
Police files kidnapping raps against 7 Lumad students, teachers
“The Lumad students went to Cebu to escape the repression brought about by the militarization in Mindanao only to experience continuing harm. It is the relentless attacks perpetrated by no less than the government that is wreaking violence in the lives of Lumad youths who only seek to go to school and learn.”
Indigenous peoples, Moro groups urge high court to junk ‘terror law’
“The terror law is added ammunition to the existing arsenal of repressive laws against the Indigenous and Moro people. This is a mockery to the exercise of our fundamental rights”
Schools, if only
By DEE AYROSO
‘Permanent closure order to deprive Lumad children of education’
The group noted that the so-called fact-finding team formed by the Education department did not even visit any of the 54 campuses.