DATE;
TIME:
April 26, 2011 (Tuesday)
ROUTE:
6; 00 - 7; 00 AM – Assembly time at
Marhaban, Salimbao, Sul. Kud. Mag.
7:00 am – Start of Caravan
Traversing
from Marhaban, Salimbao Sultan
Kudarat, Maguindanao, towards Cotabato City,
Datu Odin Sinsuat, Talayan, Shariff Aguak,
Esperanza, Isulan, Tacurong, Pres. Quirino,
Buluan, Datu Paglas, Bagontapay, Makilala,
Kidapawan, Matalam, Kabacan, Datu Montawal,
Pagalungan, Pikit, Aleosan, Midsayap, Libungan,
Pigcawayan and return to place of origin.
ORGANIZERS/CONVENERS:
Mindanao Alliance of Peace (MAP)
Reference:
RABY ANGKAL
MAP Spokesperson
0926-984-3636 or 0926-330-6247
DR. ABDULMANNAN L. GAYAK
MAP Chairperson
0912-913-5362
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Monday, April 25, 2011
KALUMARAN (Kusog sa Katawhang Lumad sa Mindanao)
KALUMARAN (Kusog sa Katawhang Lumad sa Mindanao)
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PANALIPDAN! MINDANAO
MEDIA ADVISORY
April 24, 2011
A THREE DAY GATHERING
of MINDANAO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RECLAIMING CULTURE, LAND and LIFE
and SOLIDARITY of advocates for Land, Ecology, and Patrimony
APRIL 25-27, DIGOS CITY
Kusog sa Katawhang Lumad sa Mindanao (KALUMARAN) and PANALIPDAN Mindanao (Advocates and Defenders of Patrimony, Environment and Creation), two organizations coming together in an activity in celebration of Earth Day in Digos City, Davao del Sur.
A gathering of 100 tribal leaders from Davao, Caraga, Sarangani, Bukidnon, and Zamboanga, in defense of their ancestral lands, and to reclaim the glorious past of resistance exemplified by the Great Datu Mangulayon who fought American agression in the early 1900s in the Davao Region.
Supported by advocates of environment and indigenous peoples’ rights (churchpeople, academe, youth and scientists) calling for the end of environment plunder such as large-scale mining, coal-powered power plants, and agri-business.
April 25 The DATU BAI Conference alang sa Yuta, Kultura, ug Kinabuhi at Gabriela Silang Training Center at Gabriela Silang Training Center, Digos City
Tribal leaders will gather to unite to share their views on Lumad identity, the phenomenon of ethnocide and defense of ancestral land.
(coverage is optional)
April 26 KULTURANHONG PASUNDAYAG ALANG SA PADAYAONG PAKIGBISOG ug PANAGHIUSA. The gathering continues with a cultural solidarity – A day of songs, dances and prayers signifying the continuing struggle of indigenous peoples to protect their life and culture.
(please cover)
8 am to 12 nn at San Isidro Labrador Parish, corner Aurora-Rizal Streets, Digos City
April 27 Panalipdan MINDANAO Earth Day Conference. A gathering of Environment advocates (churchpeople, environmentalists, academicians) on this Earth Day Conference in solidarity with the indigenous peoples, and for the protection of ecology and life.
(please cover)
PRESS CONFERENCE at 11 am at San Isidro Labrador Parish, Digos City
INTERFAITH LITURGICAL SERVICE at 1:30 pm
CARAVAN at 2pm to communities targetted by large-scale mining and coal-fired power plants (Malalag, Sulop and Padada, Davao del Sur)
Transportation will be arranged for coverage.
Contact Dulphing Ogan, Kalumaran Secretary General. 0909.554.8217
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PANALIPDAN! MINDANAO
MEDIA ADVISORY
April 24, 2011
A THREE DAY GATHERING
of MINDANAO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RECLAIMING CULTURE, LAND and LIFE
and SOLIDARITY of advocates for Land, Ecology, and Patrimony
APRIL 25-27, DIGOS CITY
Kusog sa Katawhang Lumad sa Mindanao (KALUMARAN) and PANALIPDAN Mindanao (Advocates and Defenders of Patrimony, Environment and Creation), two organizations coming together in an activity in celebration of Earth Day in Digos City, Davao del Sur.
A gathering of 100 tribal leaders from Davao, Caraga, Sarangani, Bukidnon, and Zamboanga, in defense of their ancestral lands, and to reclaim the glorious past of resistance exemplified by the Great Datu Mangulayon who fought American agression in the early 1900s in the Davao Region.
Supported by advocates of environment and indigenous peoples’ rights (churchpeople, academe, youth and scientists) calling for the end of environment plunder such as large-scale mining, coal-powered power plants, and agri-business.
April 25 The DATU BAI Conference alang sa Yuta, Kultura, ug Kinabuhi at Gabriela Silang Training Center at Gabriela Silang Training Center, Digos City
Tribal leaders will gather to unite to share their views on Lumad identity, the phenomenon of ethnocide and defense of ancestral land.
(coverage is optional)
April 26 KULTURANHONG PASUNDAYAG ALANG SA PADAYAONG PAKIGBISOG ug PANAGHIUSA. The gathering continues with a cultural solidarity – A day of songs, dances and prayers signifying the continuing struggle of indigenous peoples to protect their life and culture.
(please cover)
8 am to 12 nn at San Isidro Labrador Parish, corner Aurora-Rizal Streets, Digos City
April 27 Panalipdan MINDANAO Earth Day Conference. A gathering of Environment advocates (churchpeople, environmentalists, academicians) on this Earth Day Conference in solidarity with the indigenous peoples, and for the protection of ecology and life.
(please cover)
PRESS CONFERENCE at 11 am at San Isidro Labrador Parish, Digos City
INTERFAITH LITURGICAL SERVICE at 1:30 pm
CARAVAN at 2pm to communities targetted by large-scale mining and coal-fired power plants (Malalag, Sulop and Padada, Davao del Sur)
Transportation will be arranged for coverage.
Contact Dulphing Ogan, Kalumaran Secretary General. 0909.554.8217
LUMADS PICKET QUIBOLOY KINGDOM AGAINST LANDGRABBING
PRESS RELEASE
April 25, 2011
Davao City --- Angered by latest attempts of landgrabbing, Bagobo Klata lumads from farflung Sitio Kahusayan, Brgy. Manuel Guianga trooped to the city and staged a picket rally infront of the Pastor Apollo Quiboloy’s ‘kingdom’ consisting of a gigantic school, office and mansion near the International airport here.
Last week, the Kahugpungan sa Lumad sa Kahusayan (KSL) reported that three backhoes escorted by members of the 84th IB of the Philippine Army arrived in Kahusayan, around 50 km from downtown Davao, to bulldoze the ancestral lands of slain Kahusayan Datu Dominador Diarog and pave the way for a gherkins (small cucumber) plantation on the said land that is being claimed by Quiboloy.
“This intensified attack on our ancestral lands is a palpable act of greed by a landlord to acquire vast tracts of lands for his profit. We have already lost thousands of hectares of our ancestral lands when Quiboloy’s prayer mountain was constructed in 1999. Now we stand to be completely driven away from the small piece of land where we were pushed to stay, as Quiboloy’s pine trees and fences take over our traditional farms, place of worship and hunting grounds,” said Diolito Diarog, council member of KSL and Deputy Secretary General of PASAKA, regional confederation of lumads.
Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the patriarch of the religious sect Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name, has occupied 5,000 hectares within a supposed protected area of Mt. Apo. Quiboloy’s Kingdom covers portions of Brgy. Tamayong, Brgy. Manuel Guianga, Brgy.Sirib, Brgy. Carmen in Davao City. Another forty hectares are occupied by Quiboloy’s pine tree plantation.
Widow of Datu Diarog, Emily Diarog lamented, “This April 29, we are about to commemorate the 3rd death anniversary of our tribal leader but instead of the justice that we seek, we are again faced with even greater threats of losing the land that he died for. This we cannot allow, even if I, my children or our tribe lose our lives to defend our land.”
Datu Diarog’s family and relatives believe that it was at the behest of the influential pastor that the Datu was killed. An attempted massacre on the evening of April 29 had ended the life of Datu Diarog leading also to the injury of his wife, and two children.
Kahusayan lumads have long been seeking the help of the local government and the Commission on Human Rights to dismantle the fences that Quiboloy has put up around “his” so-called kingdom as annointed Son of God, pushing the Bagobo Klata tribe of Sitio Kahusayan to occupy a mere 5-hectare lot in the foothills of Mt. Apo.
“Apo Sandawa passed on to us the stewardship to cultivate and protect these lands. Our forefathers have died faithful to this inheritance of stewardship. Datu Diarog’s death will not be in vain. We shall continue the struggle he committed his life to,” stated Diolito Diarog.
The Diarog family challenged the Davao City local government to strongly implement the resolutions, one of which is the status quo, after the Kahusayan residents urged Pastor Quiboloy to dismantle the fences that has deprived the Kahusayan lumads of their lands. #
FOR REFERENCE:
Diolito Diarog
Deputy Secretary General
PASAKA
Contact Number: 09303035126
April 25, 2011
Davao City --- Angered by latest attempts of landgrabbing, Bagobo Klata lumads from farflung Sitio Kahusayan, Brgy. Manuel Guianga trooped to the city and staged a picket rally infront of the Pastor Apollo Quiboloy’s ‘kingdom’ consisting of a gigantic school, office and mansion near the International airport here.
Last week, the Kahugpungan sa Lumad sa Kahusayan (KSL) reported that three backhoes escorted by members of the 84th IB of the Philippine Army arrived in Kahusayan, around 50 km from downtown Davao, to bulldoze the ancestral lands of slain Kahusayan Datu Dominador Diarog and pave the way for a gherkins (small cucumber) plantation on the said land that is being claimed by Quiboloy.
“This intensified attack on our ancestral lands is a palpable act of greed by a landlord to acquire vast tracts of lands for his profit. We have already lost thousands of hectares of our ancestral lands when Quiboloy’s prayer mountain was constructed in 1999. Now we stand to be completely driven away from the small piece of land where we were pushed to stay, as Quiboloy’s pine trees and fences take over our traditional farms, place of worship and hunting grounds,” said Diolito Diarog, council member of KSL and Deputy Secretary General of PASAKA, regional confederation of lumads.
Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the patriarch of the religious sect Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name, has occupied 5,000 hectares within a supposed protected area of Mt. Apo. Quiboloy’s Kingdom covers portions of Brgy. Tamayong, Brgy. Manuel Guianga, Brgy.Sirib, Brgy. Carmen in Davao City. Another forty hectares are occupied by Quiboloy’s pine tree plantation.
Widow of Datu Diarog, Emily Diarog lamented, “This April 29, we are about to commemorate the 3rd death anniversary of our tribal leader but instead of the justice that we seek, we are again faced with even greater threats of losing the land that he died for. This we cannot allow, even if I, my children or our tribe lose our lives to defend our land.”
Datu Diarog’s family and relatives believe that it was at the behest of the influential pastor that the Datu was killed. An attempted massacre on the evening of April 29 had ended the life of Datu Diarog leading also to the injury of his wife, and two children.
Kahusayan lumads have long been seeking the help of the local government and the Commission on Human Rights to dismantle the fences that Quiboloy has put up around “his” so-called kingdom as annointed Son of God, pushing the Bagobo Klata tribe of Sitio Kahusayan to occupy a mere 5-hectare lot in the foothills of Mt. Apo.
“Apo Sandawa passed on to us the stewardship to cultivate and protect these lands. Our forefathers have died faithful to this inheritance of stewardship. Datu Diarog’s death will not be in vain. We shall continue the struggle he committed his life to,” stated Diolito Diarog.
The Diarog family challenged the Davao City local government to strongly implement the resolutions, one of which is the status quo, after the Kahusayan residents urged Pastor Quiboloy to dismantle the fences that has deprived the Kahusayan lumads of their lands. #
FOR REFERENCE:
Diolito Diarog
Deputy Secretary General
PASAKA
Contact Number: 09303035126
Saturday, April 23, 2011
“Slain activist Santos Manrique paid dearly to defend land from U.S. mining plunder”- Bayan-SMR
April 24, 2011
DAVAO CITY – The alliance of patriotic and progressive organizations, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan in Southern Mindanao Region (Bayan-SMR) pays tribute to Santos "Ricky" V. Manrique, as he is laid to rest today in Pantukan, Compostela Valley.
Manrique, another patriotic and progressive leader paid dearly to defend Filipino land from U.S. imperialist agenda of plunder and destruction.
That he was killed amid an intensifying campaign of resistance launched by the people of Pantukan against the entry of American company, Russell Mining and Minerals Inc, shows that no other elements can have the motive to eliminate him but those whose agenda run counter to his political activities.
The state security forces hold the record of protectors of foreign large-scale mining entrants. Their hands are tainted with the blood of activists being killed similarly elsewhere in the country until today.
Manrique is the sixth activist killed in SMR and the 44th victim in the country’s record of political killings in the span of President Benigno Aquino III’s less than a year rule.
His death bore the patent of killings perpetrated by elements of state security forces against activists, the recent cases in the region include those of other Anakpawis leaders, namely Julius Tamondes and Reynaldo Labrador who were slain successively in Paquibato in the early days of Aquino’s rule; Vicente Felisilda in Mawab, and most recently, father-and-son, Rudy and Rudyric Dejos whose lifeless and tortured bodies were found in their homes just this February.
That Manrique was killed by four armed men on board two motorcycles who entered his home and shot him to death in view of his grandson and wife was meant to sow terror in order to quell the ongoing massive opposition against the entry of large-scale mining.
Manrique, as president of the Federation of Miners’ Aggrupation in Pantukan (FEDMAP) and member of the progressive party list group, Anakpawis, led small-scale miners, indigenous peoples, farmers and small traders of Pantukan who stood to be displaced if the US-owned Russell Mining and its local counterpart, Nationwide Development Corporation (Nadecor), would succeed in their claim on a total 1,663-hectare land area in Pantukan for large-scale copper and gold mining.
Like the many slain activists before him, Manrique’s death, was preceded by harassments, threats, and tagging as a leftist, if not, a member of the revolutionary New People’s Army (NPA), by elements of the AFP.
A month prior his death, Manrique was held and harassed by soldiers at an army detachment of the 1001st Brigade in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley as he was on his way home from a meeting.
Manrique was also the one who reported to progressive organizations sightings of U.S. troops offshore Pantukan, particularly in the municipal mayor’s family-owned resort Batiao Beach last end of January, where a military training dubbed “Fleet Marine Exercise Pagsisikap 2011, Amphibious Raid Capability Demonstration” was held.
His death shows that President Aquino has not departed from the fascistic methods employed by his predecessors in suppressing people’s legitimate dissent.
Contrary to its purported “humane and non-traditional approach” of carrying out its military program Oplan Bayanihan, Manrique’s death exposes President Aquino to be no different from Gloria Arroyo who carried out the murderous campaign, Oplan Bantay Laya.
After all, Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan, which is patterned after the US Counter-Insurgency (COIN) Guide in January 2009, serves best his role as the leading agent of the U.S. imperialist’s agenda in the country.
Manrique’s fight is testament to the people’s continuing struggle against ever getting fiercer oppressions in their midst wrought by a leadership whose policy is now getting clearer to be that of espousing sell-out of the country’s patrimony to U.S. imperialism.
But the people will persist. By this death of another of the people’s martyr, we carry on the fight for genuine national sovereignty and opposition to further U.S. control of the country’s economy.
For Bayan-SMR,
FRANCHIE BUHAYAN
Secretary General
0999.195.3370
DAVAO CITY – The alliance of patriotic and progressive organizations, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan in Southern Mindanao Region (Bayan-SMR) pays tribute to Santos "Ricky" V. Manrique, as he is laid to rest today in Pantukan, Compostela Valley.
Manrique, another patriotic and progressive leader paid dearly to defend Filipino land from U.S. imperialist agenda of plunder and destruction.
That he was killed amid an intensifying campaign of resistance launched by the people of Pantukan against the entry of American company, Russell Mining and Minerals Inc, shows that no other elements can have the motive to eliminate him but those whose agenda run counter to his political activities.
The state security forces hold the record of protectors of foreign large-scale mining entrants. Their hands are tainted with the blood of activists being killed similarly elsewhere in the country until today.
Manrique is the sixth activist killed in SMR and the 44th victim in the country’s record of political killings in the span of President Benigno Aquino III’s less than a year rule.
His death bore the patent of killings perpetrated by elements of state security forces against activists, the recent cases in the region include those of other Anakpawis leaders, namely Julius Tamondes and Reynaldo Labrador who were slain successively in Paquibato in the early days of Aquino’s rule; Vicente Felisilda in Mawab, and most recently, father-and-son, Rudy and Rudyric Dejos whose lifeless and tortured bodies were found in their homes just this February.
That Manrique was killed by four armed men on board two motorcycles who entered his home and shot him to death in view of his grandson and wife was meant to sow terror in order to quell the ongoing massive opposition against the entry of large-scale mining.
Manrique, as president of the Federation of Miners’ Aggrupation in Pantukan (FEDMAP) and member of the progressive party list group, Anakpawis, led small-scale miners, indigenous peoples, farmers and small traders of Pantukan who stood to be displaced if the US-owned Russell Mining and its local counterpart, Nationwide Development Corporation (Nadecor), would succeed in their claim on a total 1,663-hectare land area in Pantukan for large-scale copper and gold mining.
Like the many slain activists before him, Manrique’s death, was preceded by harassments, threats, and tagging as a leftist, if not, a member of the revolutionary New People’s Army (NPA), by elements of the AFP.
A month prior his death, Manrique was held and harassed by soldiers at an army detachment of the 1001st Brigade in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley as he was on his way home from a meeting.
Manrique was also the one who reported to progressive organizations sightings of U.S. troops offshore Pantukan, particularly in the municipal mayor’s family-owned resort Batiao Beach last end of January, where a military training dubbed “Fleet Marine Exercise Pagsisikap 2011, Amphibious Raid Capability Demonstration” was held.
His death shows that President Aquino has not departed from the fascistic methods employed by his predecessors in suppressing people’s legitimate dissent.
Contrary to its purported “humane and non-traditional approach” of carrying out its military program Oplan Bayanihan, Manrique’s death exposes President Aquino to be no different from Gloria Arroyo who carried out the murderous campaign, Oplan Bantay Laya.
After all, Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan, which is patterned after the US Counter-Insurgency (COIN) Guide in January 2009, serves best his role as the leading agent of the U.S. imperialist’s agenda in the country.
Manrique’s fight is testament to the people’s continuing struggle against ever getting fiercer oppressions in their midst wrought by a leadership whose policy is now getting clearer to be that of espousing sell-out of the country’s patrimony to U.S. imperialism.
But the people will persist. By this death of another of the people’s martyr, we carry on the fight for genuine national sovereignty and opposition to further U.S. control of the country’s economy.
For Bayan-SMR,
FRANCHIE BUHAYAN
Secretary General
0999.195.3370
PASAKA scores Quiboloy, 84th IB soldiers for bulldozing ancestral lands
PRESS RELEASE:
DAVAO CITY-- Three years after their datu leader was killed, the Kahugpongan sa mga Lumad (KSL) together with PASAKA Regional Confederation of Lumad Organizations in Southern Mindanao in a press conference today condemned the latest threats and harassment by forces believed to be Pastor Apollo Quiboloy's private army and the military soldiers under 84th Infantry Battalion against the Bagobo-C'lata lumad residents in Sitio Kahusayan, Brgy. Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District.
Quiboloy ordered a road construction in the area, and just a day after 3 backhoe units were brought in the area, 84th IB soldiers also begun their patrol operations. Local residents scored Quiboloy for bulldozing ancestral lands in pursuit of his greedy desire to expand his prayer mountain and tourism project in Kahusayan, and even other villages in Brgy. Manuel Guianga.
“The land where Datu Domindor Diarog’s blood was spilled is the same land now being bulldozed by the same man who (allegedly) killed him,” said Diarog.
On April 29, 2008 armed-men encircled and opened fire at the house of the Diarog family killing Datu Dominador Diarog and wounding his wife and two children. Datu Diarog refused to sell his land to barangay officials who reportedly acted as dummies on behalf of Pastor Quiboloy
“We believe that the recent deployment of 84th IB elements prove how influential Quiboloy is in using for his vested interests the armed forces to secure his territorial expansion,” said Diolito Diarog, a Kahusayan leader and PASAKA Deputy Secretary General.
Pastor Quiboloy's human rights violation track-record base on the cases filed at Commission on Human Rights (CHR) office included land grabbing and massive human rights violations that were allegedly committed by former Tamayong Barangay Captain Greg Canada.
Documented human rights reports since 1997 in Brgy. Manuel Guianga revealed that his group/men/private armies have been responsible for the killing, indiscriminate firing, arson and other criminal acts to sow terror in the area and dislocate the lumad residents there. These atrocities were also used to justify full-scale military operations.
PASAKA is now calling for the immediate intervention of the Davao City government and urged the City Council to conduct a probe on the reported incidents in Sitio Kahusayan.
The City Council conducted an investigation a few years ago on the reported land dispute case being the motive behind the killing of Datu Dominador Diarog in 2008 and the continued land grabbing by the “influential” group of Quiboloy. City Council resolutions ordered the status quo of “fences” around areas grabbed by Quiboloy from the lumads until lands had been surveyed but still the fences were moved and even built stronger by Quiboloy’s men.
“Gipahilom lang gamay ang isyu unya ania nagsige og balik balik, nagsige man gihapon ang pagpanghasi,pagpanghulga sa mga lumulupyo diri ug klaro nga dili gyud ni sila moundang hangtod di nila mailog kanamo ang among yutang kabilin mao nga hangtod karon namuyo kami sa kawalay kasigurohan,” Diarog pointed out.
He also noted that it is evident that the recent deployment of military soldiers under 84th IB is apparently being used to sow terror among the people especially that these elements have forcibly recruited the local residents to join the Barangay Defense System and wanted to use the Lumads in its counter-insurgency campaign.
“The AFP has bartadized our culture, exploiting lumads while they show their bias and loyalty to the influential, powerful and rich,” Diarog said.
“But despite this recent attacks on our human rights, we will never give up our struggle in regaining and defending our ancestral lands that our ancestors and Datu Doming Diarog fought and died for, it has been 3 years now since his death but we continue to call for justice for Datu Doming Diarog and respect the rights of the lumads,” Diarog said.
KSL together with PASAKA will commemorate Datu Doming Diarog's death Anniversary with a series of activities starting next week.#
For reference:
DIOLETO DIAROG
Deputy Secretary General
PASAKA
Contact Number: 09303035126
DAVAO CITY-- Three years after their datu leader was killed, the Kahugpongan sa mga Lumad (KSL) together with PASAKA Regional Confederation of Lumad Organizations in Southern Mindanao in a press conference today condemned the latest threats and harassment by forces believed to be Pastor Apollo Quiboloy's private army and the military soldiers under 84th Infantry Battalion against the Bagobo-C'lata lumad residents in Sitio Kahusayan, Brgy. Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District.
Quiboloy ordered a road construction in the area, and just a day after 3 backhoe units were brought in the area, 84th IB soldiers also begun their patrol operations. Local residents scored Quiboloy for bulldozing ancestral lands in pursuit of his greedy desire to expand his prayer mountain and tourism project in Kahusayan, and even other villages in Brgy. Manuel Guianga.
“The land where Datu Domindor Diarog’s blood was spilled is the same land now being bulldozed by the same man who (allegedly) killed him,” said Diarog.
On April 29, 2008 armed-men encircled and opened fire at the house of the Diarog family killing Datu Dominador Diarog and wounding his wife and two children. Datu Diarog refused to sell his land to barangay officials who reportedly acted as dummies on behalf of Pastor Quiboloy
“We believe that the recent deployment of 84th IB elements prove how influential Quiboloy is in using for his vested interests the armed forces to secure his territorial expansion,” said Diolito Diarog, a Kahusayan leader and PASAKA Deputy Secretary General.
Pastor Quiboloy's human rights violation track-record base on the cases filed at Commission on Human Rights (CHR) office included land grabbing and massive human rights violations that were allegedly committed by former Tamayong Barangay Captain Greg Canada.
Documented human rights reports since 1997 in Brgy. Manuel Guianga revealed that his group/men/private armies have been responsible for the killing, indiscriminate firing, arson and other criminal acts to sow terror in the area and dislocate the lumad residents there. These atrocities were also used to justify full-scale military operations.
PASAKA is now calling for the immediate intervention of the Davao City government and urged the City Council to conduct a probe on the reported incidents in Sitio Kahusayan.
The City Council conducted an investigation a few years ago on the reported land dispute case being the motive behind the killing of Datu Dominador Diarog in 2008 and the continued land grabbing by the “influential” group of Quiboloy. City Council resolutions ordered the status quo of “fences” around areas grabbed by Quiboloy from the lumads until lands had been surveyed but still the fences were moved and even built stronger by Quiboloy’s men.
“Gipahilom lang gamay ang isyu unya ania nagsige og balik balik, nagsige man gihapon ang pagpanghasi,pagpanghulga sa mga lumulupyo diri ug klaro nga dili gyud ni sila moundang hangtod di nila mailog kanamo ang among yutang kabilin mao nga hangtod karon namuyo kami sa kawalay kasigurohan,” Diarog pointed out.
He also noted that it is evident that the recent deployment of military soldiers under 84th IB is apparently being used to sow terror among the people especially that these elements have forcibly recruited the local residents to join the Barangay Defense System and wanted to use the Lumads in its counter-insurgency campaign.
“The AFP has bartadized our culture, exploiting lumads while they show their bias and loyalty to the influential, powerful and rich,” Diarog said.
“But despite this recent attacks on our human rights, we will never give up our struggle in regaining and defending our ancestral lands that our ancestors and Datu Doming Diarog fought and died for, it has been 3 years now since his death but we continue to call for justice for Datu Doming Diarog and respect the rights of the lumads,” Diarog said.
KSL together with PASAKA will commemorate Datu Doming Diarog's death Anniversary with a series of activities starting next week.#
For reference:
DIOLETO DIAROG
Deputy Secretary General
PASAKA
Contact Number: 09303035126
Lumads take up case of slain Lumad leader, landgrabbing to GPH peace panel
Press Release
April 19, 2011
Lumads take up case of slain Lumad leader, landgrabbing to GPH peace panel
Davao City --- Lumad leaders shared optimism that the government peace negotiators can take up the case of Datu Dominador Diarog, whose 3rd death anniversary is on April 29, remains an unsolved extra-judicial killing linked to a dispute involving the land-grabbing by a powerful religious cult leader. Fresh incidents of land-grabbing coupled with abusive military operations have again been reported early this month in Sitio Kahusayan, Brgy. Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District, this city.
GPH representative to the peace talks Ednar Dayanghirang in a forum on Land, Life and Justice organized by the Solidarity Action Group for Indigenous Peopls (SAGIP) here at Haran House, UCCP, said he will talk to the Office of the Presidential Affairs for Peace Process (OPAPP) to follow up the case of the 2008 killing of Kahusayan leader Datu Dominador Diarog and the continuing landgrabbing of their ancestral lands by the influential group of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.
In the past week, lumads from Kahusayan are again restless as 3 backhoes arrived together with a platoon of army soldiers from the 84th Infantry Battalion were deployed to their community, threatening to bulldoze their ancestral lands.
“This renewed attempt to completely drive us away from our ancestral lands is condemnable. We appeal to the conscience of the masterminds behind these landgrabbing attempts to leave us and our land in peace. We also demand that the long overdue resolution of the Davao City Council to remove the barb-wired fences put up by Quiboloy around our peoples’ lands. We have waited long enough and we see no progress in what the Davao City Council has promised to do,” said Diolito Diarog, one of the council leaders of the Kahugpungan sa mga Lumad sa Kahusayan (KSL) and PASAKA spokesperson.
“The pine trees surrounding the palace of Quiboloy and the fences put up to deny us of our access to our traditional hunting grounds, sources of water, have worsened the poverty and hunger we experience. Continued militarization by government troops paid to serve the ones lording over us in Quiboloy’s palace has never since allowed us to live in peace and bounty, affecting our culture, threatening the development of our tribe,” said Diarog. #
For Reference:
DIOLITO DIAROG
Deputy Secretary General
PASAKA
Contact: 09303035126
April 19, 2011
Lumads take up case of slain Lumad leader, landgrabbing to GPH peace panel
Davao City --- Lumad leaders shared optimism that the government peace negotiators can take up the case of Datu Dominador Diarog, whose 3rd death anniversary is on April 29, remains an unsolved extra-judicial killing linked to a dispute involving the land-grabbing by a powerful religious cult leader. Fresh incidents of land-grabbing coupled with abusive military operations have again been reported early this month in Sitio Kahusayan, Brgy. Manuel Guianga, Tugbok District, this city.
GPH representative to the peace talks Ednar Dayanghirang in a forum on Land, Life and Justice organized by the Solidarity Action Group for Indigenous Peopls (SAGIP) here at Haran House, UCCP, said he will talk to the Office of the Presidential Affairs for Peace Process (OPAPP) to follow up the case of the 2008 killing of Kahusayan leader Datu Dominador Diarog and the continuing landgrabbing of their ancestral lands by the influential group of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.
In the past week, lumads from Kahusayan are again restless as 3 backhoes arrived together with a platoon of army soldiers from the 84th Infantry Battalion were deployed to their community, threatening to bulldoze their ancestral lands.
“This renewed attempt to completely drive us away from our ancestral lands is condemnable. We appeal to the conscience of the masterminds behind these landgrabbing attempts to leave us and our land in peace. We also demand that the long overdue resolution of the Davao City Council to remove the barb-wired fences put up by Quiboloy around our peoples’ lands. We have waited long enough and we see no progress in what the Davao City Council has promised to do,” said Diolito Diarog, one of the council leaders of the Kahugpungan sa mga Lumad sa Kahusayan (KSL) and PASAKA spokesperson.
“The pine trees surrounding the palace of Quiboloy and the fences put up to deny us of our access to our traditional hunting grounds, sources of water, have worsened the poverty and hunger we experience. Continued militarization by government troops paid to serve the ones lording over us in Quiboloy’s palace has never since allowed us to live in peace and bounty, affecting our culture, threatening the development of our tribe,” said Diarog. #
For Reference:
DIOLITO DIAROG
Deputy Secretary General
PASAKA
Contact: 09303035126
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