The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Tuesday said it has dispatched an investigation team to look into the “rescue” of Lumad children in Cebu City.
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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
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, February 16, urged the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to look into the alleged rescue operation conducted by the police on several members of an indigenous people’s group in an educational center in the University of San Carlos (USC).
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Photo by Benjie Talisic February 16, 2021 THE Save Our Schools (SOS) Network Cebu called on the police for the immediate release of the 26 indigenous individuals 22 students, two teachers, and two elders who were allegedly arrested at the University of San Carlos (USC) retreat house on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021.
The group made this call during a press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 16.
“The SOS Network Cebu, which is composed of different civil and cause-oriented organizations, church-based groups, academic institutions, and other supporting organizations, vehemently condemned the raid and arrest yesterday,” the group said.
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Regletto Imbong, convener of the SOS Network Cebu said:
Rights groups, activists and academic institutions have condemned Philippine authorities following a raid targeting Indigenous Lumad students who sought shelter at a Catholic university after being forced from their homes because of fighting between the military and communist rebels.
Monday’s roundup, which the government insisted was a “rescue operation”, is seen as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s new war against the communists, who have been waging an armed rebellion for half a century.
The Duterte administration recently declared the communists a “terrorist” organisation, after talks with the group collapsed. Since then, it has also accused mainstream left-leaning political parties, workers groups and even academics of acting as “fronts” for the communist rebels – a government campaign that has become known as “red-tagging”. Critics accuse the president of using “communism” as an excuse to crack down on any groups who oppose his administration’s p