Commissioner Roberto Cadiz of the Commission on Human Rights says they will report their findings and recommendations to appropriate agencies for proper actions during the last day of their public inquiry related to the situation of Lumad evacuees in Mindanao. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Aside from being required to sign on the logbook at the entrance and exit points of Barangay White Culaman in Kitaotao town, Bukidnon, other residents have also experienced restrictions in their communication after members of the Army allegedly prohibited them to use mobile phones.
The public inquiry of the Commission on Human Rights on the plight of tribal communities in southern Mindanao, held Thursday, dismayed a council of tribal elders and their support groups.
Farmer villagers in a village in Bukidnon, northern part of Mindanao is experiencing hamletting similar to the scenario of Martial Law, an independent fact-finding mission of human rights groups reports held last September 16-18.
The Office of the City Prosecutor here dismissed the case against 15 activists on allegations that they kidnapped and detained the Lumad evacuees in a church compound.
A high-school student from Davao City National High School finishes her poster which shows an image of a crying Lumad. The student is among those who joined the Literary and Arts Festival sponsored by the Save Our Schools Network held at the University of the Immaculate Conception Wednesday. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)
The Save Our Schools Network (SoS) held a Literary and Arts Festival here to “raise public awareness especially among the youth on the lumad’s plight in education and their struggle for self-determination and ancestral domain.”
Claro Gawilan is joined by (from left to right) Reverend Sarly Templado of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Rev. Joy Mirasol, and Milagros Maglunsod-Tan of the Mindanao Integrated Services Foundation Inc. Academy during their presentation of the report from the three-day mission conducted in Kitao-tao, Bukidnon last week. The group said 55 families have already evacuated in Arakan Parish, leaving their farms unattended due to fear of being tagged as rebels or rebel supporters. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
You are very fortunate to live in Manila, and you see how the military has become “a whole different kettle of fish from the martial law years”. May we then invite you to our community in Han-ayan, especially during the operations of the military?
