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At least 13 Lumad human rights defenders and community members, including two children, have been killed in five incidents of extrajudicial killings and four massacres in the past eight months, with the recent killings of Emerito Samarca, Executive Director of a tribal school, and two other Lumad leaders in Surigao del Sur on 1 September.
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According to reports from the human rights group Karapatan, the victims of the June 15 massacre, Willy Rodriguez, Lenie Rivas, and 12-year-old Angel Rivas, asked permission from soldiers illegally occupying their villages to go to their farm.
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In the said meeting, Campos narrated the September 1, 2015 killings in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, where her father, grandfather Datu Juvello Sinzo, and school director Emerito Samarca were killed before the whole community. "Six months after the incident, not one of the three named perpetrators has been arrested.
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STOP LUMAD KILLINGS On Sept. 1, 2015 educator Emerito Samarca and two Lumad leaders, Dionel Campos and Aurelio Sinzo, who opposed large scale mining, were brutally murdered in Lianga, Mindanao . According to local reports, the men were killed in the heart of the community by members of the Maghat / Bagani paramilitary group, attached to ...
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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 1 Sept) - The executive director of an alternative learning center for Indigenous Peoples (Lumads) and two other members were killed allegedly by paramilitary elements at 4 a.m. Tuesday in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, Karapatan-Caraga said in a press statement.
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On Dec 24, 2021, at 2:40 pm, around 30 troops belonging to the 75th IBPA indiscriminately fired upon thirty four (34) farmers, killing Vilma Tawede and wounding Roberto Fernandez in Sitio Catabadan, Barangay San Roque, San Miguel, Surigao del Sur.
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Diatagon, Lianga, Surigao del Sur. Datu Juvello is tribal chieftain of the village of Kiwagan, Bgy. San Isidro, Lianga, Surigao del Sur. About 261 families/1,304 community members and residents of Han-ayan, Km. 16 and 9 other lumad communities in Brgy. Diatagon and Brgy.
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Armed paramilitaries swooped down the village at dawn and successively killed Emerito Samarca, Executive Director of the ALCADEV community school, and Lumad leaders Dionel Campos and Datu Bello Sinzo.
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On a late afternoon, December 20, Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca shot dead Sonya Gregorio and her son Frank Anthony Gregorio in Purok 2, Barangay Cabayaoasan, Paniqui, Tarlac. The reason: a...
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One of the masterminds of the brutal Lianga Massacre of 2015 was killed yesterday in an ambush by the New People's Army in Surigao del Sur against the paramilitary group Magahat-Bagani. According to reports, Hawudon Jomar Bucales, along with two other paramilitaries, were killed in a gun battle with the people's army in Sitio Mamsapranon ...
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However, the case of Lumad alternative schools in Mindanao, Philippines, offers a unique approach by utilizing community engagement in IP education that embodies collective and participatory ...
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In what may be the worst in a series of recent attacks on indigenous people in Mindanao, militiamen allegedly murdered the head of a tribal school, the chairman of a lumad organization and one other person in Lianga town, Surigao del Sur early Tuesday morning.
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In a tweet thread, Lumad school group Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development or Alcadev reacted to the statement of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) on the use of 'bagani' in ABS-CBN's new fantasy series. "NCIP has remained silent on the numerous [human rights violations] against the Lumad. But now that [.]
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Updated April 2021. The Swiss mining giant Glencore plc., formerly known as Marc Rich & Co., describes itself as a vertically-integrated natural resource company, meaning that it is involved at every stage of the supply chain of its products, from extraction and processing through to marketing and trading. Its sprawling operations include metals - particularly copper, nickel and cobalt ...
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21 taken away police "rescue" Lumad bawit school Cebu . Bakwit 7 release proves raps a sham . 2 Lumad farmers, 1 student killed in another Lianga massacre . Solon condemns demolition of Lumad schools in Bukidnon . The Lumad situation - theology of the struggle . NTF-Elcac budget hiked, but COVID-19 funds cut
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October 6, 2020 Read more articles in Filipinas New People's Army One of the masterminds of the brutal Lianga Massacre of 2015 was killed October 4 in an ambush by the Communist-led New People's Army (NPA) in Surigao del Sur against the paramilitary group Magahat-Bagani.
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FILE PHOTO of Hawudon Jomar Bucales, Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative of Lianga town, Surigao del Sur during an interview in his house in Lianga, Surigao on Sept. 19, 2015.
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A 12-year old student of the Lumad school TRIFPS and two Manobo Lumad were strafed and killed Tuesday by the military in Brgy. Diatagon, Lianga, Surigao del Sur. Their deaths harken back the 2015 Lianga massacre that killed the Alcadev school director and two Lumad leaders, and shows the impunity on the Lumad has not ceased. ...
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This study delves into the critical dimensions of agrarian education and practices in the Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development in Surigao del Sur, Mindanao, Philippines. Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development is an alternative Indigenous school for the Lumad peoples, a collective identity encompassing 18 ethnolinguistic groups ...
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Daguil Capion, a member of the B'laan tribe, had armed himself in the course of opposing the Tampakan mining project in South Cotabato. His wife Juvy and their sons Jordan, 13, and John Mark, 6, were killed in a military raid on their farm, and their corpses were exposed to the sun to pressure him to surrender.
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It dealt a headblow against the 3rd IB's paramilitary group Magahat-Bagani and served justice to the Lumad masses. These armed agents have been determined to be responsible for the 2015 Lianga massacre and are being used by the military and mining companies to intimidate and suppress the people.
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In the dawn of September 1, 2015, hundreds of men, women, and children of Sitio Han-ayan, Diatagon, were roused from sleep by a band of armed men from the Magahat Bagani paramilitary group. They were then rounded up to witness the brutal execution of their community leaders, Dionel Campos and Juvello Sinzo, who each received a bullet in the head.
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The massacre of three Lumad (Indigenous) youth, including a 12-year-old child, on June 15, 2021, in the town of Lianga is emblematic of the rising human rights crisis. We call on the Canadian government to end all support and cooperation with the Philippine military and police.
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Report on human rights violation in the Philippines
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Sherwin Tejero, of Malahutayong Pakigbisog Alang Sa Sumusunod (Mapasu) or Sustained Struggle for the Next Generation, in an interview on Friday at the barangay gym where some 1,600 Lumads from upland areas of Diatagon and San Agustin town evacuated last week, said five coal mining companies are set to operate in the province.
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Lumad leaders are concerned that the harassment their communities experience is due to this plan.301In the past two decades, nearly 500,000 hectares in Mindanao have been swamped with large-scale mining, agribusiness and energy projects.
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The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) commissioned a series of national reports on the situation of indigenous peoples in relation to human rights and criminalization.
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25 likes tonyocruz Sheina Campos, daughter of Lumad leader Dionel Campos. She spoke softly and lovingly about her hardworking and compassionate dad. Vigilantes woke up their Lianga, Surigao del Sur neighborhood on Sept. 1 at 4am, and made them witness the shooting of two Lumad leaders. Sheina's dad was one of those shot to death. #StopLumadKillings
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Event Description. On July 26, 2022, unidentified men were allegedly seen roving around the residence of Ronald Deocadiz, 38 years old, human rights defender, land rights advocate and organizer, in Barangay Caduhaan, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental. Deocadiz is a community leader and organizer specialized in land rights and disputes in Negros ...
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Bai Josephine Pagala, vice chair of the Kasalo Lumad group, said the two men were gunned down in front of her house. She showed the CHR commissioners photos of Samarca, who was found with his...
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Lumad in Mindanao under attack. James Cameron's 2009 box-office hit film Avatar, about an alien world where primitive but highly evolved inhabitants defend their habitat, moved audiences across the globe, including the Filipino urbanite audience. We were enthralled by the lush and luminescent world of beings who end up waging a kind of ...
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In this video, the ALCADEV in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, celebrates the 13th anniversary of its foundation day, and recount episodes of evacuations due to bombings and the killings of their leaders.
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Today, September 1, 2021 marks the 6th year since paramilitary elements killed three Lumad leaders, Datu Jovello Sinzo, MAPASU chairperson Dionel Campos, and AL ... See more Like Comment Share Kasalo Caraga September 1 · Later at 7 pm, light a candle in your homes with the pictures of Emerito Samarca, Dionel Campos and Datu Jovello Sinzo.
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"In the last three years, every time the soldiers come to our villages, they always demand that Mapasu, our organization, gives up its resistance against mining," according to Michelle Campos, daughter of slain Lianga Lumad leader Dionel Campos. Michelle also lost a mentor on the same day her father died.
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Capuyan was a colonel with a bloody record of attacks against minorities. He became head of Task Force Gantangan which organized paramilitary groups to defend large mining operation and was notorious for unleashing terror and murder of Lumad leaders. Capuyan is also involved in various crimes and anomalies including trafficking illegal drugs.
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Human rigths and environmental defenders killed in 2017, Compostela Valley, Philippines. Ramon Dagaas Pesadilla and Leonila Tapdasan Pesadilla were murdered in March 2017. They had donated land to a Lumad (indigenous) school. Active members of Compostela Valley Farmers' Association, opposing mining projects. AR.
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