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“Even children are not spared anymore.”

Lumad student killed

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO | Bulatlat.com

MANILA – A 15-year-old Lumad student was killed in Talaingod, Davao del Norte last Jan. 17 by alleged members of a paramilitary group, the Save our Schools Network said.

Alibando Tingkas, 15, a third grade student of Salugpongan Ta Tanu Igkanogon Community Learning Center (STTICLC) in Talaingod, was with two adult companions when they were fired upon by members of the Alamara in Sitio Laslasakan, Palma Gil village, Talaingod when [he] and his two adult companions were fired upon by members of Alamara.

Tingkas sustained two gunshot wounds in his chest. He is the 29th child victim of extrajudicial killing under President Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan, the network said.

“We are enraged and saddened by this incident. The paramilitary group and their military cohorts will not stop from attacking and even killing Lumad in the name of their counter-insurgency operations, even children are not spared anymore” said Rius Valle, spokesperson of the SOS Network in Southern Mindanao.

A Salugpongan teacher in Sitio Laslasakan asked community members to check on Tingkas and his companions when they heard the gunshots. A big contingent came to retrieve Tingkas’ remains.

Residents identified the perpetrator as a certain Joven Salangani, a member of Alamara but they have yet to confirm whether he was alone or with a group, said Valle. The sub-village is a known “territory” of both the paramilitary group Alamara and the 68th Infantry Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

The plight of the Lumad was brought to national and international public attention when two tribal leaders and the head of Alternative Learning Center Agricultural and Livelihood Development were killed last Sept. 1, 2015. But the harassment and the killings continue even during the Manilakbayan.

Valle said the AFP and their paramilitary group did not stop from threatening and harassing tribal communities even during Christmas holidays.

“And now, they are desperately trying to quell the growing Lumad resistance by killing innocent children, their future leaders and defenders,” he said.

In a statement, the Iglesia Filipina Independiente Obispo Maximo assailed the killing of Tingkas as “barbaric” and “very unchristian.”

The League of Filipino Students said that while they grieve, they are determined to end human rights violations committed against the Lumad.

“This is beyond despicable. In the strongest possible terms, we condemn the Aquino government for the worsening human rights crisis in Mindanao. Through the AFP and its paramilitary groups, the regime continues to spread havoc and fear,” LFS National Chairperson Charisse Bañez said.

The Woman Warrior of Talaingod By NewsDesk on March 2, 2015 at 4:16 pm “Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay is considered the Gabriela Silang of Mindanao. I was told she’s a “force to be reckoned with when poked.”

In 1994, Bai Bibyaon was among those who led a revolt against Alcantara & Sons (Alsons), a huge logging company that threatened to destroy the ancestral lands in Talaingod in Davao del Norte.

It was a tribal revolution, known as pangayaw, that resulted in a bloodbath. But it also led to the eventual end of the encroachment of the operation the logging company in the tribe’s ancestral domain.

Bai Bibyaon, and other male leaders of the tribe, including the fugitive but tribal hero Datu Guibang Apoga, organized what is now knowns as Salugpungan Ta Tanu Igkanugon or Unity in Defense of Ancestral Land.

... Bai Bibyaon believes the struggle of the IPs will continue unless the government will truly come up with a program that will ensure that their rights are protected and their ancestral domains will be left for them alone to manage.

Asked why they left their ancestral domain, she said: “We left as a highest form of protest.”

“It was against militarization, against capitalism, against all the selfish interests of the government,” she said. “We left to defend our ancestral land. We came because we knew that in the city, we will find people who can help us in our fight.”