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Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → May → 22 → Freed Lumad students: Is it wrong to learn and dream? Freed Lumad students: Is it wrong to learn and dream? By JON ERNST PASCUAL MANILA Recently released teachers and students of a Bakwit Lumad school are at a loss why the Phililppine government is targeting indigenous peoples who aspire to learn and dream. “When does it become wrong to protect our lands? When does it become wrong to go to school, to learn and to dream of becoming a graduate?” Jomar Benag, one of the arrested students, said in tears in a media briefing after their release. ....
No safe space for Philippines’ Indigenous youth as military allowed on campus by Mongabay.com on 22 January 2021 The Philippines’ Department of National Defense has unilaterally terminated an accord that ensured the 17 campuses of the University of the Philippines were off-limits to the military and police. The defense secretary justified the move by alleging that insurgents from the banned communist party and its armed wing are using the campuses’ sanctuary status as cover for their recruitment and propaganda purposes. The decision has alarmed displaced Indigenous students who are harboring at UP’s Quezon City campus after the military bombed or took over their schools in a counter-insurgency campaign that began in 2018. ....