CEBU CITY – The Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Davao del Norte has ordered the release of the seven persons who were arrested last February following a controversial police operation involving a group of Lumad children at a retreat house here.
Published May 14, 2021, 4:44 PM
CEBU CITY – The Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Davao del Norte has ordered the release of the seven persons who were arrested last February following a controversial police operation involving a group of Lumad children at a retreat house here.
Complaints for alleged violation of the Child Abuse Law, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, and kidnapping and serious illegal detention that were filed against the seven persons collectively known as “Bakwit School 7” were dismissed.
The seven persons include Chad Errol Booc, Segundo Lagatos Melong, Benito Dalim Bay-ao, Moddie Langayed Mansimoy-at, Esmelito Paumba Oribawan, Roshelle Mae C. Porcadilla and Jomar Benag.
Published February 17, 2021, 2:32 PM
CEBU CITY – The presence of the Lumad children from Davao del Norte in a retreat house of a university here had the permission of their parents.
This was the claim of the Save Our Schools (SOS) Network Cebu, which facilitated the Lumad children’s stay in Cebu as members of the Lumad Bakwit school.
University of the Philippines-Cebu Professor Regletto Imbong, convenor of Save of Schools (SOS) Network-Cebu, alleged that the continued destruction of ancestral lands and the purported abuses suffered by Lumads for being the source of recruitment of the New People’s Army forced them to flee from their communities.
Lawmakers seek probe into supposed police rescue of Lumad students in Cebu
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endIndex: Rights advocates and progressive organizations hold an indignation rally against the raid & arrest of the Bakwit school at the University of San Carlos in Cebu.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 16) Lawmakers are calling for an investigation into what authorities earlier called a rescue of Lumad students from supposed communist groups at a retreat house inside a university in Cebu City.
In a statement late Monday, Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate said he will seek a House probe into the Gestapo-like police abduction of students from the Lumad Bakwit School program who were seeking refuge inside the University of San Carlos Retreat House in Talamban, Cebu.