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NOTICE OF CLOSURE. Lumads from Mindanao call to close down the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples office in Quezon city for its "inaction" towards the Lumad issues in Mindanao. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

Manilakbayan protesters want NCIP closed; NCIP says it is nothing new

Lumads who marched from Mindanao and have converged here picketed at the national office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples to demand its closure for alleged failure to solve Lumad killings in Mindanao.

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Lumads protest CHR’s snail-paced action on killings

Delegates of the human rights caravan, Manilakbayan from Mindanao marched from their camp inside the University of the Philippines Diliman to the national office of the Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday morning to condemn the agency's "slow response" on the investigation of the cases of Lumad killings in Mindanao.

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Read more about the article Red-tagging, vilification push Lumad to march to Manila
FORUM. Ariel Casilao, first nominee of Anakpawis Partylist talks about why the Lumads headed to the National Capital Region for the human rights caravan during the press forum held Tuesday at the AS Steps in the University of the Philippines Diliman campus in Quezon City. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

Red-tagging, vilification push Lumad to march to Manila

Ariel Casilao, Anakpawis Partylist first nominee, said that accusing the Lumads and their supporters as communists or NPAs "is the reason why there are illegal detention, massacres and killings in Mindanao".

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