Mindanao group slams recruitment of lumads to fight the NPAs
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE
Davao Today
Published: March 5, 2009
DAVAO CITY—A Mindanao lumad (indigenous peoples) group condemned the forced recruitment of lumads in paramilitary group Task Force Gantangan, which it says not only violates basic civil and human rights but also turn lumads into human shields in the government’s raging fight against Communist rebels... read full story
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Lumads say Mining Act has only worsened their lot
Keith Bacongco/MindaNews
Monday, 02 March 2009 19:49
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 March) -- Fourteen years after it was signed into law, the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 or Republic Act 7942 has failed to bring development to the indigenous communities, a lumad leader today said... read full story
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Lumads: militarization is number one problem
Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews
Sunday, 01 March 2009 10:03
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 February) -- Twenty three years after the dismantling of the Marcos dictatorship, leaders of regional organizations of indigenous peoples (IPs or Lumads) in Mindanao say militarization remains their number one problem.
“Sa pagsumada namo.. sa kasinatian.. mas una ang militarisasyon,” (Summing up, based on our experience, militarization tops) the problems confronting the Lumads, Dulphing Ogan, secretary-general of a Mindanao-wide alliance of regional Lumad organizations told a press conference Friday, Day Two of the five-day 1st General Assembly of Kalumaran or Kusog sa Katawhang Lumad sa Mindanao (Alliance of Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao)... read full story
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