Some of the 19 detained minors say police had been frequenting their communities and threatening parents to retrieve their children from a bakwit school in Cebu
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Local authorities are now looking into possible violations by the police during an operation conducted in Cebu City to “rescue” 19 Lumad children who were allegedly kidnapped and abused.
SunStar Kidnapping, other charges filed against 2 teachers, 5 Lumads
CEBU. Investigators from the Commission on Human Rights Central Visayas (CHR 7) meet with the parents of some of the Lumad children who attended the Bakwit School in the University of San Carlos Talamban campus. / BENJIE TALISIC
+ February 18, 2021 CHARGES of kidnapping, serious illegal detention and qualified trafficking in persons were filed online Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, against two Bakwit School teachers, three adult Lumad students and two Lumad elders.
The charges were filed by the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group (AKG) before the Davao del Norte Provincial Prosecutors’ Office in Tagum City during virtual inquest proceedings held via Zoom videoconferencing app at the Police Regional Office Central Visayas (PRO 7) Wednesday.
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CEBU Seares: USC student paper editor flogs Cebu s daily media for slandering, maligning school on bakwit news story.
+ February 16, 2021 Today, Cebu daily media chose to disappoint the Cebuano people with its faulty and malicious reportage of events and the context of Lumad evacuees taking sanctuary in our university. The widespread disinformation has aggravated plenty to viciously slander and malign the proud institution and its community. Today s Carolinian will not stand for it. We will be fact-checking all all such claims.
Editor-in-chief, Today s Carolinian, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, February 15, 2021
THE statement attributed to the editor-in-chief of the student paper of the University of San Carlos was a critique of sort on the local news reports last Monday, February 15, about 19 minors belonging to an indigenous group in Mindanao who were rescued from a Cebu university and at least four adults who acc