Detained Grade 10 student Esmelito Oribawan and Datu Benito Bay-ao have fallen ill in jail.
‘Inhumane’ | Group raises alarm on worsening health of detained Lumad student, chieftain
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Social welfare department releases Lumad child days after court order
“This is unacceptable. How can government social workers refuse to heed the orders of the court? Beyond the legal imperative, how can government social workers not empathize with the sufferings of the child and the father whose reunion has been blocked again and again?”
Police, Talaingod officials whisk 13 Lumad bakwit students to Davao
Save Our Schools Network protested the transfer and called it “illegal transport of minors.”
7 of 13 Lumad students being sent back to Mindanao ‘without legal authority’
The SOS Network denounced what it called “illegal transport of minors” by authorities.
FIRST PERSON | ‘Lumad students are not child warriors’
“It was indeed very enriching for me to be given the opportunity to teach the Lumad Junior and Senior High-School students. Likewise, it was very heart-wrenching as I had learned many things from them especially in their narratives of struggles to uphold ownership of their ancestral lands and their way of life as well as their fight for self-determination and liberation from the shackles of their oppressors.”
Police files kidnapping raps against 7 Lumad students, teachers
“The Lumad students went to Cebu to escape the repression brought about by the militarization in Mindanao only to experience continuing harm. It is the relentless attacks perpetrated by no less than the government that is wreaking violence in the lives of Lumad youths who only seek to go to school and learn.”
To the ‘rescue’
By DEE AYROSO
‘Rescue’ came as a surprise, says host of the Lumad bakwit school
Due to the COVID-19 lockdown imposed last year, students were not able to return to their communities. But with the government’s easing of travel restrictions, the university said plans have been made for their return. Four of the delegates, in fact, have already returned to their respective communities.
Lumad students vow to defend UP, their sanctuary
“We will defend UP, our sanctuary, as much as it has defended us.” – Lumad student