Children?s vulnerabilities have further been aggravated by reports from the DSWD in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao that on August 19, eight kids aged 4 to 16 years old from Indanan, Sulu, were arrested and tortured along with their parents by the military?s Joint Special Operations Force.
"There is no dignity, in policy nor in practice, in the way our indigenous peoples are being treated. Indigenous communities are being displaced and threatened by mining concessions; they are being massacred supposedly in the name of development. There is an ethnocide going on in this country," Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said.
Stop military operations in Sulu and Basilan! Stop targeting civilians! Government troops hit civilians while conducting clearing operations in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan in pursuit of the suspects for the July 10.…
STATEMENT ON THE MILITARY OFFENSIVE IN MINDANAO ?Give ear to my prayer, O God. . . for his speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart; his…