Some 400 indigenous peoples from Southern Mindanao Region came back on Tuesday from the month-long human rights caravan Manilakbayan, but the Lumads were dismayed saying the government did not listen to their pleas.
Bro. Armin Luistro, secretary of the Department of Education is yet to receive a copy of the administrative case filed by indigenous people students and teachers along with their support groups.
The son of the head of the local farmers’ association in Compostela Valley is still missing after an assassination attempt early afternoon Sunday.
After the afternoon mass on Wednesday at Baclaran church, priests, seminaries, and the Lumads who are delegates of the human rights caravan Manilakbayan 2015 marched from the church doorsteps up to the gates of the church compound showing their unity against the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit that ended Friday.
Moro group Suara Bangsamoro condemned the killing of more than a hundred individuals in Paris by armed men identifying themselves as members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).