After 2nd massacre in Lianga, Lumad families flee their homes
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2 Lumad farmers, 1 student killed in another Lianga massacre
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By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – There is no need to rescue the Lumad students at the University of San Carlos-Talamban in Cebu City as they are about to go back into their communities.
This is the statement of the University of San Carlos-Talamban (USC) and Societas Verbi Divini (SVD) Philippines Southern Province, host of the Lumad
bakwit (evacuees) school after members of the Philippine National Police Regional Office 7, along with members of the local social welfare and development department entered the retreat house where Lumad students were being housed on Feb. 15, Monday.
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.
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Lumad students vow to defend UP, their sanctuary
January 19, 2021
MANILA – Eighteen-year-old Chricelyn Empong has spent the last three years of her life at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, which hosts their Lumad “bakwit” (evacuees) school.
The Grade 12 student said that in 2015, she and her schoolmates were forced to leave their school, Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Inc. (MISFI) Academy, in Kitaotao, Bukidnon due to series of harassment from the military.
“Our school was tagged as a school run by communists. Our parents were labeled as supporters of the NPA [New People’s Army] and we were called children of the NPA,” Empong told