Kalinaw News: NOLCOM welcomes NCIP resolutions condemning the communist rebels’ atrocious acts towards the IP

Posted to Kalinaw News (Oct 30, 2021): NOLCOM welcomes NCIP resolutions condemning the communist rebels’ atrocious acts towards the IP

Camp Aquino, Tarlac City – In a statement made on Friday, NOLCOM Chief expressed their full support to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples’ (NCIP) formal denouncement of the atrocities of the CPP-NPA-NDF against the indigenous cultural community/indigenous people.

Lieutenant General Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr, Commander of Northern Luzon Command “With almost 30% of Indigenous People in the country are in Northern and Central Luzon, we are committed to ending CTG’s immoral and unlawful exploitation of the IPs as means for long-drawn armed struggle stained by violence and disrespect for human rights.”

The NCIP en banc passed on October 20, 2021, three resolutions; condemning the continued killing of Indigenous People (IPs) by the CPP-NPA-NDF; condemning the radicalization, recruitment, and exploitation of IP youth by the CPP-NPA-NDF; condemning the acts of the CPP-NPA-NDF in creating their “IP people’s organizations” misrepresenting the true interests and situations of the Indigenous cultural communities/Indigenous People (ICCs/IPs).

“As the IPs are the most vulnerable sector in our society, NOLCOM extends its fervent support to the NCIP in ensuring that their rights are respected and that they are protected from the deception, radicalization, and exploitation of the communist terrorist group.”

LtGen Burgos also cited their initiatives that aim to alleviate the living condition of the indigenous people in Northern and Central Luzon while preventing them from being exploited by the communist rebels.

Last Thursday, NOLCOM in partnership with GMA Kapuso Foundation and the LGU of Dingalan, Aurora inaugurated the 70-meter long, anti-corrosive, and 100% galvanized steel hanging bridge at Barangay Umiray of the said municipality. The bridge will benefit hundreds of indigenous people living in the barangay, as they will not have to take the risk of crossing the 70-meter-wide river bed to procure their daily needs.

Meanwhile, on Oct 12, NOLCOM also signed a partnership agreement with the LGU of Porac, Pampanga and the Philippine Business for Social Progress to provide aid in the construction of 60 housing units for the 60 IP families who were identified to have been living in hazard areas of the municipality.

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