LUMAD: Schools Under Attack
Bughaw Organization Philippines・7 minutes read
The Lumad people face human rights violations and attacks on their schools due to interests in their fertile lands, prompting them to seek refuge at the University of the Philippines Diliman to advocate for their rights and self-determination. Despite ongoing challenges and threats, the Lumad community, particularly the youth, persist in fighting for their rights, aiming to amplify their voices and preserve their cultural identity through education and self-determination.
Insights
- The Lumad people, indigenous to Mindanao, face human rights violations and attacks on their schools by state military and paramilitary groups due to interests in their fertile lands, leading to closures, threats, harassment, and violence, highlighting the ongoing struggle for their fundamental rights and self-determination.
- The Lumad people's fight for education, self-determination, and justice is a national issue marked by forcible evacuations, extrajudicial killings, and unreported attacks on schools, underscoring the resilience and determination of the Lumad, particularly the youth, in reclaiming their identity and voices amidst significant challenges and threats.
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Recent questions
Why did the Lumad people seek sanctuary at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus?
To fight for their fundamental rights to education, self-determination, and justice.
What challenges do Lumad communities face in their ancestral domain?
Human rights violations due to interests in their fertile lands.
Why have Lumad schools been targeted by state military and paramilitary groups?
Due to closures, threats, harassment, and violence against the schools.
Why is the struggle of the Lumad people considered a national issue?
Due to forcible evacuations, extrajudicial killings, and attacks on schools.
How do the Lumad people continue to fight for their rights despite challenges?
By seeking to make their voices heard and reclaim their identity through education and self-determination.
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Lumad People Fight for Rights and Education
- The Lumad people, indigenous to Mindanao, sought sanctuary at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus, over a thousand kilometers away, to fight for their fundamental rights to education, self-determination, and justice.
- Lumad communities face human rights violations due to interests in their fertile lands, leading them to create their own ways of survival within their ancestral domain, including running their own schools.
- Lumad schools have been targeted by state military and paramilitary groups, resulting in closures, threats, harassment, and violence, with incidents like the Lianga massacre in 2015.
- The struggle of the Lumad people is a national issue, with forcible evacuations, extrajudicial killings, and attacks on schools occurring frequently, yet often unreported in mainstream media.
- Despite facing immense challenges and threats, the Lumad people, especially the youth, continue to fight for their rights, seeking to make their voices heard and reclaim their identity through education and self-determination.
