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CEBU Seares: USC student paper editor flogs Cebu s daily media for slandering, maligning school on bakwit news story.
+ February 16, 2021 Today, Cebu daily media chose to disappoint the Cebuano people with its faulty and malicious reportage of events and the context of Lumad evacuees taking sanctuary in our university. The widespread disinformation has aggravated plenty to viciously slander and malign the proud institution and its community. Today s Carolinian will not stand for it. We will be fact-checking all all such claims.
Editor-in-chief, Today s Carolinian, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, February 15, 2021
THE statement attributed to the editor-in-chief of the student paper of the University of San Carlos was a critique of sort on the local news reports last Monday, February 15, about 19 minors belonging to an indigenous group in Mindanao who were rescued from a Cebu university and at least four adults who acc
SunStar February 17, 2021
(UPDATED, with latest details) Various groups under Save Our Schools (SOS) Network Cebu are calling for the immediate release of 26 Lumads or indigenous people (IP) from Davao del Norte who they claim were “illegally seized” by police authorities in an SVD-owned retreat house at the University of San Carlos-Talamban campus (USC-TC) on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021.
The SOS Network Cebu, composed of church-based groups, academic institutions, militant organizations, and members of civil society said while disguised as a rescue operation to save indigenous children allegedly held in the USC campus without their parents’ consent, the police operation was nothing but a “raid” and an “illegal seizure” of the “Lumad 26.”
CRITICS and families of victims killed in the government’s bloody drug war have submitted more evidence in crimes against humanity complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte, which was filed before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands.
In its motion to admit third supplemental pleading, Rise Up for Life and for Rights complainants Dennise David, Maria Lozano, Mariel Sabangan, Normita Lopez, Purisima Dacumos and Christine Pascual asked outgoing ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to admit their additional evidence for the complaint against President Duterte.
The complainants were assisted by their legal counsel in the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL).
Atty. Bonifacio Cruz of NUPL Central Luzon showing the picture of Japer Gurung and Junior Ramos affixing their thumb marks in the verification of the petition.
“It is not right to say that we forced them to sign the paper because it is for their benefit especially if the ATA is declared unconstitutional by the SC.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – There is no coercion, deception or bribery on the two Aetas to make them sign a petition for intervention at the Supreme Court (SC).
This is the assertion of their lawyers from the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) in Central Luzon in a virtual press conference on Wednesday, Feb. 10. They also detailed the circumstances that made Japer Gurung and Junior Ramos affix their thumb marks in the Petition-In-Intervention that was eventually denied by the Supreme Court.