During the tribute, the group presented a video taken last January where Mansimuy-at stated his three wishes: sustainable agri-farms, schools for the children and free hospitals for his fellow Lumad.
“That is the reason why we cut the bananas, but if they [guards] will still enter even when there are no more bananas, then they are after the land.”
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“The release of political prisoners cannot be reduced to a simple act of goodwill that the GRP can opt to take or not.”
“This incident is glaring proof of a company’s greed and fascism being tolerated by the government for so long.”
Some 5,000 progressives marched on Dec. 10, the 68th commemoration of International Human Rights Day, to denounce human rights violations, which they say continued and worsened under the six-month-old Duterte administration.
“This is not the change we want.”
The death toll on Duterte’s brutal campaign against illegal drugs surpassed the number of victims of extrajudicial killings under the Benigno Aquino III, which totaled 307 and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administrations with 1,200 victims combined.
After six years of being fenced off from their land, the agrarian reform beneficiaries of Tagum City could wait no more.
The ‘infallibility’ of Duterte’s drug war rhetoric has become a convenient front for politically motivated killings.