LIFT MARTIAL LAW. Students from Salugpongan Ta Tanu Igkanogon Learning Center Inc. from Talaingod town, in Davao del Norte continue to call on President Rodrigo Duterte to lift Martial law and stop militarization in Lumad schools as they hold a protest with their teachers in front of the Department of Education (DepEd) Region in Davao City on Thursday, July 27. President Rodrigo Duterte warned he will bomb the schools which he claimed are teaching "subversion and communism" during his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 24. (Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)
Mindanao Lumad struggle for empowerment through education (Part 2 of 4)
The SOS network said that Lumad schools have been constantly attacked by government troops. Prior to the Martial Law declaration in Mindanao, there have documented 87 incidents of attacks on schools under the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte starting July 2016.
