Senator Grace Poe
Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday disclosed on Tuesday a resolution filed a day earlier seeking an inquiry into the "increasing gravity of alleged harassment, killings, forced evacuations and dispossession of ancestral lands in communities and tribal schools of Lumad areas, perpetuated by military."
In Senate Resolution No. 1572, Poe urged the appropriate committee to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation into the veracity of the reports on incidents in communities and tribal schools of indigenous people in parts of Mindanao.
The measure, she said, is aimed at immediately putting an end to the incidents, meting out the appropriate sanctions to those liable, and formulating legislative measures to further protect and improve the welfare and well-being of various indigenous peoples and tribes in the Philippines," Poe said in the resolution.
Poe said that the "exponentially increasing gravity of the above-mentioned allegations are reporting that the 36th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army and Special Forces are behind and/or with a certain "Magahat/Bagani paramilitary forces" in carrying out activities that led to the cited events.
"The allegations and/or reports deserve serious investigation and rectification, lest we allow the mockery of the provision of our Constitution," Poe said.
Poe asked her colleagues to immediately adopt the resolution so that the inquiry can commence soonest.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/117232/poe-trains-radar-on-lumad-killings-seeks-probe-sanctions
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