DESPITE CONTINUOUS OPERATIONS by the AFP and its paramilitary groups, the ROL in Mindanao launched the Conference of Resistance last December 24-26, 2016. The assembly adopted the theme Assembly of Defense for Genuine Peace and Occupation of the Ancestral Land.
Around 200 revolutionary datus from different towns attended the conference. They represent Manobo communities from revolutionary committees in their areas, as well as other communities being organized by the ROL.
The two-day conference was filled with exchanges of the different communities experiences in their struggles, indigenous cultural presentations, review of the condition of Lumads and the history of their revolutionary struggle, propositions on the revolutionization of traditions and activities, and declaration of their unity in armed struggle. On the third day, the successful conference was celebrated alongside the commemoration of the Party’s 48th anniversary.
The datus who attended readily agreed to participate in the conference, even with just one week’s notice, as they understood the relevance of the event. Many hiked through forest and mountain trails to reach the venue. One delegation from a particular committee trekked for three days from the neighboring municipality. Other members of their tribes came along to join in the Party anniversary’s celebration.
The activity started and ended with traditional prayers from different Lumad groups. In particular, the Lumads called for courage of their revered powerful spirit of war. Before parting ways, the conference made an animal offering and with its blood, imprinted their marks on a large cloth bearing their declaration of unity.
[Ang Bayan is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Philippines. Ang Bayan is published in Pilipino, Bisaya, Hiligaynon, Waray and English. Download Ang Bayan from the Philippine Revolution Web Central at www.philippinerevolution.info. Ang Bayan is published fortnightly by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines.]
https://www.philippinerevolution.info/ang_bayan/20170921-the-lumads8217-defense/
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