By DEE AYROSO
The teacher
Tags: Emerito Samarca
World Teachers’ Day | Renewed calls for salary increase, justice for ‘Sir Emok’
“The State shall assign the highest budgetary priority to education and ensure that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through adequate remuneration.”
UN experts condemn Lumad killings, urge Ph gov’t for independent probe
“Military occupation of civilian institutions and killing of civilians…are unacceptable, deplorable and contrary to international human rights and international humanitarian standards.”
#StopLumadKillings | A portrait of two Lumad mothers
Among some 3,000 Lumads seeking refuge at the Surigao del Sur Sports Center, there are two mothers of nearly the same age named Maribel Enriquez. Both seek justice for the plight they are going through because of the military.
Thousands attend burial of school director in Surigao del Sur
Related story: #GriefandRage | Thousands join funeral of 3 Surigao Sur ‘martyrs’ BUTUAN CITY – Friends and relatives of school administrator, Emerito Samarca, arrived in throngs last Saturday to pay their last respects to the man who they fondly called as “Tatay Emok”. Samarca, director of the Alternative Learning Center for Agriculture and Livelihood Development…
#GriefandRage | Thousands join funerals of 3 Surigao Sur ‘martyrs’
The three men brutally slain in the rampage by a paramilitary group in Surigao del Sur were laid to rest, amid calls for justice and the prosecution of their killers, suspected of following military orders.
#StopLumadKillings | ‘They were great fathers’
The three men killed in Lianga, Surigao del Sur on Sept. 1 were not only principled leaders who spent their whole lives helping others – they were also good, loving fathers.
Belgian NGO wants PH gov’t to probe Army involvement in Lumad killings
“We expect the Philippine government to immediately and thoroughly investigate the killings and the involvement of the AFP, and bring the perpetrators to justice.”
‘Soldiers watched as paramilitary attacked us’
Lumad victims from Lianga, Surigao del Sur recounted the horrors of the Sept.1 rampage by a paramilitary group, who entered their community along with soldiers.
Emerito Samarca
BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO Sometimes he thought of the world as soil and rain. At times, the scorching sun meant everything for the roots and one’s roots, even skin. He did not go so far away To take it all the way to freedom to plenty, to happiness. He lived and taught the children…
Human rights group tags Army in Surigao Sur killings
“These killings were not isolated case. These are part of the serial killings happening now in Mindanao, and in some parts of the country, whose perpetrators are military elements and their own-created militia.”