2. The HRVs and incidents related to the lumads’ “bakwit.”
2. 1 Death (while fleeing)
Two children and two adults in Sitios Laslasakan and Basagan died in the course of evacuation.
2.2. Sexual Harassment
Two women were offered money for sexual intercourse in Sitio Sasu and Laslasakan.
2.3. An Act which can be classified as “attempted rape”
A soldier inserted his hand into the panty of a lumad woman, trying to touch her vagina.
2.4. Premature child-birth (while fleeing)
Two pregnant women in Sitio Nalubas suffered from a premature delivery as they forcibly flee from their homes because of military operations.
2.5. Divestment Property
There were many reported cases of properties destroyed and divested in Bugni, Sasu, and Laslasakan such as the divestment of 20 chickens and 2 ducks in Sitio Sasu,
Divestment and destruction of property like the burning of clothings, roofs, were reported in many cases.
2.6. Desrtuction of property
Destruction of seed-storage (in Ata-Manobo language: “lalapang”) with 8 sacks of farm seeds were reported to have occurred in Sitio Bagang and Laslasakan
2.7. “Hamletting”
Residents are forced to stay in one house by the military for three days, without food or water stocks.
2.8. There were many cases of forced search and seizure reported in different places
2.9. There were many cases of violation of domicile reported in different places
These human rights violations happened in the period of January 6 to the end of January.
Conclusion:
These truths as spoken by the victims themselves is only a glimpse of the actual suffering of the people who live in the terror wrought by militarization. No amount of words, no figures could capture exactly the pain that they experience time and again as military operations go unabated in their communities.
In the recent military operations in Talaingod, violations of basic human rights and international humanitarian laws were confirmed:
Use of Public Place for Military Purposes and Endangerment of Civilians, Violation of Domicile, Destruction of Properties, Divestment of Properties, Threat, Harassment and Intimidation, Indiscriminate Aerial Bombing, Forcible Evacuation, Exploitation of Women in the Context of Armed Conflict, Violation of Children’s Rights, Violation of Children’s Rights to Survival, Violation of Children’s Rights to Protection or Safety by State and its Agents, and Violation of Children’s Rights to Development.
The occurrence of forcible displacement/ evacuation took place despite the absence of physical structure that would describe evacuation centers. Unlike the usual, the Ata-Manobos found that the safer place to hide is in the forests thereby leaving the local government agencies unaware of the actual state of the evacuees and victims.
