DAVAO DEL NORTE, FEB. 23 (PIA) - Concerned local chief executives of Davao del Norte have denounced allied groups of the Communist Party of the Philippines- New Peoples Army (CPP-NPA) for taking advantage of indigenous peoples (IP) children taken from their ancestral domains without parental consent.
In a press conference, Talaingod Municipal Mayor Jonnie Libayao said a group of parents came to him seeking his assistance and that of the Tribal Council to look for their children who had not been home for so long a time.
Libayao then consequently approached Provincial Governor Edwin I. Jubahib asking him help to locate the lost children. They went to an IP facility called “Haran” located at a compound of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) in Davao City.
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+ February 25, 2021 THE news of the “rescue” of Lumad students in a makeshift Bakwit school in the University of San Carlos in Cebu that led to arrests of their teachers and tribal leaders, and their return to Talaingod without their parents again raises confusion about what is the issue at hand.
Authorities again raise the issue of kidnapping, strangely, on the teachers and tribal leaders. This again, raises questions. How can the very people who are traditionally their community leaders become the villain when in fact they are with the students they have “kidnapped” all the time?
Authorities again raise the issue that they were in Cebu to be indoctrinated as child warriors. But netizens, advocates and even the members of the USC community question, how do you have an “indoctrination” inside a Catholic university right in the middle of the city and not in the countryside?