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“In a display of increasing State fascism, the Marine Battalion Landing Team 2 (MBLT 2) has lodged trumped-up charges of murder and frustrated murder against volunteer teachers of the Center for Lumad Advocacy, Networking and Services, Inc (Clans) Community School and members of the school’s parent-teacher community association. State security forces are employing their dirty maneuvers yet again, using the law to falsely prosecute those who have pledged their lives to serve communities long neglected by the government,” said Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay.

According to a press release by Clans, warrants are already out against volunteer-teachers Jolita Tolino, Cheryl Tolino, Alma Salaya, Junifer Tuwan, Antoinette Kampair, and Gina Ciano, and seven other Parent-Teacher Community Association members. Because of this series of attacks against schools and its teachers, 33 Clans community schools serving at least 1, 328 Lumad children in South Cotabato, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat, Davao del Sur, and Davao Occidental were forced to close.

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Palabay cited that this has long been the practice of the government. “This is how political prisoners have steadily increased during the Duterte regime. Teachers and Lumad school researcher Amy Pond and Dominiciano Muya were illegally arrested using the same tactic. (karapatan)

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