Kamatuoran: August 2015

Again, the reason why the schools of Salugpungan Ta’ Tanu Igkanugon Community Learning Center (STTICLC) and other schools that the Save our Schools Network (SOS) supports were closed was because of the remiss of their administrations of their responsibility in complying with the necessary documentary requirements needed by the Department of Education. To quote DepEd spokesperson on clarifying closure issue, “...there is nothing to close because none has been open...” Clearly, what the SOS has been portraying in media, in public and during their mass protests and rallies were all lies and has intent to manipulate the views of the spectators against the government and in favor to them.

Also, the issue on the closure of these schools was made one of the bases why the lumads from the hinterlands of Talaingod, Kapalong and Bukidnon were brought here in Davao as “Bakwits” aside from the militarization issue that they have been pushing since time immemorial. But the pictures discovered in the net and posted in the social media is another story, inter-related though.

Plainly, the pictures depict a tell-all story of what STTCLC and other schools that SOS is supporting are teaching to their pupils. Take a peek also videos of SOS at youtube and what these videos deliver. Needless to say, a situation that needs to be acted upon by government agencies concerned and a situation that needs to be immediately arrested.

Looking at the pictures closely, faces are familiar, and they are the faces who were brave and adamant in demanding the pull-out of the military in their community before they will go home during the rescue mission at UCCP Haran said to be perpetrated by Rep Catamco. Some of them were the IP leaders who represented themselves as the voices of their community, as the decision maker and obviously as spokesperson of the organizations who managed them in the compound. Behold, they are also the Lumads who castigated the NCIP and other government agencies during the rallies and during the militant camp-out this year outside DepEd.

The point here is that— we should look into and be vigilant about the fact that schools that specifically caters to the education of the innocent IPs are affiliated and subscribes to the teachings of the communists, the New Peoples Army (NPA) for this matter. Moreso that they are supported by left leaning organizations, the desperate groups like KARAPATAN, PASAKA, BAYAN MUNA, KMP and BAYAN, organizations that obviously are legal fronts of the NPA. May be the allegations that these schools, their administrators, their teachers and the supporters are NPA has basis and in fact, true. May be the pictures are material justification why the military are in the community of the Lumads who calls for their pull-out.

May be the Lumads, along with the desperate groups has one good reason why they call for the pull-out of the military—to give NPA full and free access to the ancestral domains of the Lumads. I suppose, our Lumads in the hinterlands needs to be educated, but definitely, not from people of SOS, not from the NPA, not from the desperate groups and not from schools like STTCLC.

Posted by Kalumuran Mindanao on Thursday, August 6, 2015

Saturday, August 8, 2015

ARE THEY REALLY FIGHTING OF IP EDUCATION?