Tag: Lumad
Killings, arrests as military ‘flush out’ Mindanao environmental defenders
By KEN E. CAGULA in Davao City
The massive human rights violations committed against indigenous peoples or Lumads and peasants are designed to silence the...
Rodrigo Duterte’s killing season now opens fire on Lumads and the...
By Bong S Sarmiento in Mindanao
Tactics used to target Filipino drug suspects are now being deployed against leftist activists and alleged supporters of an...
Philippine soldiers harass mission probing rights abuses in Mindanao
By Ronalyn V. Olea in Manila
Philippine state security forces have repeatedly blocked members of a fact-finding mission investigating human rights violations against peasant...
Gallery: Lumad campaigners appeal for NZ support to defend schools
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand and Filipino teachers, community advocates and students this week launched an open letter appealing to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte...
Protests mount over massacre of Filipino farmers in climate demo
WARNING: Shocking images. Citizen video footage of the Philippines security forces in their increasingly savage use of force against the protesting farmers. Video: Kilab...