MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon – About 800
‘Lumads’ (Indigenous People) held an indignation rally here Tuesday to denounce
the atrocities allegedly committed by the New People’s Army (NPA) in the IP
communities in the region.
Datu Armando P. Bravo, spokesperson of the Lumad Mindanao
Movement for Peace and Development, Inc. (LMMPDI), said that the Lumads were
gathered to condemn the NPA atrocities towards the Lumads in Bukidnon on the
rebel’s founding anniversary on March 29, 2016.
“We the Lumads in Bukidnon have been suffering from being
oppressed and abused by the group of bandits of the Communist Party of the
Philippines for the last 47 years", Bravo said in a statement emailed to
the local media in Northern Mindanao.
The Lumads came from various ancestral lands in different
areas in Bukidnon have gathered in the Plaza Rizal of Malaybalay City to
express the apprehension about the oppression and exploitation of the NPA
against the IPs, Bravo said.
Bravo also exposed the alleged brazen recruitment and the
reported deceptions employed by NPA in the recruitment of the IPs, including
minors, to forcibly join the armed insurgency and fight the government.
Aside from the abuses, the NPA also mercilessly killed many
Lumads, including the IP leaders, who refused to support the armed struggle of
the communist movement.
Bravo cited the killings of Mayor Mario Okinlay, of
Impasug-ong, Datu Mambansilan ng Sitio Ulayanon, in Kalabugao, also of
Impasug-ong, Datu Melody Delamance ng Cabanglasan, Datu Manhadukan Sandigan
also of Cabanglasan, all of towns of the province of Bukidnon
He said that the LMMPDI wants the government and the
military to clear and drive away the NPA rebels in the ancestral lands in the
whole province of
Bukidnon
“It is only when the province of Bukidnon
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