Martial law in Mindanao victimizes more Lumad children—NDFP
President Rodrigo Duterte’s martial law in Mindanao, extended for the second straight year this 2019, continues to wreak havoc in the lives of Lumad children, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in Southern Mindanao Region said. In a statement posted on its website today, the NDFP reported that a platoon of the 88th […]
Free Satur and France; free the Lumad children
The Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) condemns the illegal detention of Former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo and ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro and other delegates of the National Solidarity Mission (NSM) in Davao del Norte since 9:30 pm last night November 28 by the combined elements of the 56th IB, Philippine National Police and Municipal Social […]
Charges against Satur and aid group has no basis–LODI
The Duterte regime has reached a new low with the filing of preposterous human trafficking and kidnapping charges against veteran journalist, activist and human rights advocate Satur Ocampo, ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro as they were on a fact-finding to aid beleaguered indigenous people in Talaingod, Davao del Norte. The arts and media alliance, […]
4 missing teachers in Philippine Army custody
A Church group said its four volunteer teachers missing since November 12 were abducted and are being detained by government soldiers in Lanao del Sur. The Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) today said Philippine Army troopers illegally arrested and are detaining literacy-numeracy volunteer teachers Tema Namatidong (28), Julius Torregosa (30), Ariel Barluado (22) and […]
Talaingod PNP charges Castro, Ocampo, others with kidnapping
Davao del Norte police arrested ACT Teachers Party Representative France Castro, former Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo and 17 other human rights defenders who tried to rescue 74 victims of forced evacuation in Talaingod town and are being brought to Tagum City for inquest proceedings. In an alert, human rights group Karapatan-Southern Mindanao Region said […]
Another humanitarian crisis breaks out in Davao del Norte
A humanitarian crisis again broke out in Talaingod, Davao del Norte as dozens of Lumad students, teachers and civilians fled from their community and trekked under the rain last night in fear of government soldiers and paramilitary who forcilby closed down their school. At least 79 individuals, including 29 students and 12 teachers fled Sitio […]
Lumad group: Duterte’s ‘Manobo leader’ is fake, crooked
A Lumad alliance warned that President Rodrigo Duterte’s invitation to a paramilitary leader to join the fight against the New People’s Army has dire consequences against indigenous peoples’ communities in Davao. In a statement, the PASAKA Confederation of Lumad Organizations in Southern Mindanao Region said Mindanao Indigenous People’s Conference for Peace and Development chairperson Joel […]
On the Disinformation and Harassment Against ‘Tu Pug Imatuy’
By the Concerned Artists of the Philippines We condemn the uploading of black propaganda against the film Tu Pug Imatuy (2017), directed by Arnel Barbarona who is a member of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines. Set in Mindanao, Tu Pug Imatuy (The Right to Kill) revolves around the story of Manobo couple caught amidst […]
‘Tu Pug Imatuy?’
ni Rene Boy Abiva Kung sukdulan na ang pagka-alipin mainam pa’y tupdin ng kaluluwa, bisig at kamao ang pinakamatayog na tungkuin ng bawat tao sa mundo. ‘Sing linaw ng tubig sa bukal ang utos ng Maykapal sa Lumang Tipan na ang tanging kabayaran sa lahat ng lumalapastangan sa tao, hayop at kalikasan, sa […]
AFP, PNP enforce another food blockade against Lianga evacuees
The Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police (PNP) are enforcing another food blockade against the Lumad evacuees in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, a human rights group reported. The 75th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army (75th IBPA) as well as the local PNP blocked food aid brought by Church groups at around 11:30 AM, […]