{"id":5875,"date":"2023-02-24T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csspsinag.wordpress.com\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2023-02-24T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:06:21","slug":"a-year-after-the-massacre-there-is-still-no-justice-in-new-bataan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/2023\/02\/24\/a-year-after-the-massacre-there-is-still-no-justice-in-new-bataan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year after the massacre, there is still no justice in New Bataan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A year ago today, the military massacred the New Bataan 5: Drivers Tirso A\u00f1ar and Robert Aragon, Lumad community health worker Elegyn Balonga, and Lumad school volunteer teachers Chad Booc and Jurain Ngujo II. But for the victims \u2013 as well as for the communities they served \u2013 justice is nowhere to be found. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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A year ago today, the military massacred the New Bataan 5: Drivers Tirso A\u00f1ar and Robert Aragon, Lumad community health worker Elegyn Balonga, and Lumad school volunteer teachers Chad Booc and Jurain Ngujo II. But for the victims \u2013 as well as for the communities they served \u2013 justice is nowhere to be found. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As various indigenous people\u2019s rights groups came together in front of Vinzons Hall in UP Diliman, they sought accountability from the state for the massacre. \u201cA year without justice is justice denied,\u201d they said as they amplified their calls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also sought freedom for the 14 Lumad and Environmental Defenders still under state custody because of trumped-up charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No justice for the New Bataan 5<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the massacre, the military has been hellbent on depicting Chad Booc \u2013 the most well known of the New Bataan 5 \u2013 as a terrorist, using him as a propaganda piece to intimidate students and keep them away from activism. But the facts tell a different story.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to the military\u2019s claim that Booc \u201cdied as an NPA crading the M16 he used in fighting government troops in a legitimate encounter,\u201d local reports said that no such encounter occurred on that day. It was murder, they said \u2013 plain and simple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat the AFP claims as an \u2018encounter\u2019 is in fact a massacre of civilians in the area. And in its attempt to justify these gruesome killings, the armed forces once again twist the truth to play into their narrative as they have done many times before,\u201d said the Save Our Schools Network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ: https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/2022\/03\/14\/chad-booc-and-kevin-castro-are-not-terrorists\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

USC Councilor Katkat Dalon, a Lumad school graduate herself, hopes that people will see past the military propaganda and actually get to know the New Bataan 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHindi ko tiyak kung kilala niyo sila sir Jurain kung paano namin sila kilala. Kung kilala niyo sila bilang NPA o terorista, kung nabasa niyo sa ibang balita, tanungin niyo kami. Handa kaming magkwento,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ: https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/2022\/02\/26\/how-i-met-the-lumad-the-story-of-how-a-terror-law-petitioner-got-arrested-for-teaching-lumad-evacuees-2\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dalon painted an image of Booc and Ngujo far from the military\u2019s \u2013 as excellent students who, instead of using their education for personal gain, chose to go to the countryside and serve the people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHanda kaming magkwento hanggang maikwento namin sa inyo ang kanilang kabayanihan. Hangga\u2019t maintindihan niyo ang tunay na esensiya ng pagmamahal ng bayan at pagsisilbi sa sambayanan, dahil iyon ang itinuro sa amin nila sir Jurain, iyon ang pinakita at ginawa sa amin nila sir Jurain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No justice for the Lumad<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as the calls for state accountability for the New Bataan 5 massacre have been left unanswered, the communities lament that their needs have also remained unmet after centuries of oppression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indigenous People\u2019s Leader and former Bayan Muna Representative Eufemia Culiamat, for example, lamented the state\u2019s long history of dismissing national minorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cSa matagal na panahon na kami ay nagtitiis sa pambansang pang-aapi at pandarambong sa lupang ninuno naming mga katutubo, ang aming karapatan sa sariling pagpasya ay hindi kinilala,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She recalled how, instead of recognizing their right to self-determination, the state has only answered them with more and more violence. In particular, she recalled the Lianga massacre which she witnessed personally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNakita ko kung paano nabasag ang ulo ng aking pinsan, paano binali-bali ang buto ng aking tiyuhin, at paano ginilitan ng leeg ang aming guro,\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ: https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/2021\/07\/15\/madasigon-si-teacher-ando-at-ang-kanyang-laban-kasama-ang-mga-lumad\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside the rampant state violence, the speakers also lamented how many Lumad children are still deprived of education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSa katunayan, hindi kailangan magkaroon ng mga paaralang Lumad. Hindi kailangan magkaroon ng volunteer teachers kung inaabot ng gobyerno ang mga kabataang Lumad sa Mindanao. Ngunit napakalaki ng patlang sa edukasyon ng ating mga kabataan,\u201d argued former Lumad school volunteer Jose Monfred Sy, Vice Chairperson of the Congress of Teachers\/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine out of every ten Lumad children, Sy reported, are unable to read and write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But instead of embracing initiatives such as Lumad Schools \u2013 and, in doing so, heralding people like Teacher Chad and Teacher Jurain as heroes \u2013 the state has relentlessly red-tagged these institutions, and has closed several down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSadyang mailap ang hustisya para sa atin \u2013 para sa mamamayang Lumad, para sa sambayanang Pilipino,\u201d said Dalon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ: https:\/\/sinag.press\/news\/2021\/07\/05\/lumad-schools-national-minorities-in-grave-danger-under-anti-terror-law\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No justice until victory<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as they demanded justice for the New Bataan 5, the progressive groups knew that true justice would not come from the courts \u2013 it would only come by fundamentally changing the structures that have bred these injustices in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cItinuro sa amin nila sir Chad, nila sir Jurain, at ng buong sambayanang Pilipino na ang tunay na ibig sabihin ng hustisya ay ang pagkakaroon ng lipunang malaya,, ang pagkakaroon ng estado na responsable, at pagkakaroon ng komunidad na ligtas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Thus, the speakers underscored the need for students to join this struggle and use their education \u2013 just like those that served these communities before them \u2013 in service of the Lumad and all of the nation\u2019s oppressed sectors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBilang mga Iskolar ng Bayan, ang ating tungkulin ay tumungo sa kanayunan, magsilbi sa mga hindi pinagsisilbihan ng estado, at maging tunay na pag-asa ng bayan,\u201d said Sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UP Diliman University Student Council Chairperson Latrell Felix agreed, saying that the New Bataan 5 were murdered because they were heroes of the people who fought for the Lumad communities\u2019 rights to education, native land, and self-determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAng pinakamataas na pagpupugay natin sa kanila ay ang pagpapatuloy sa pakikibakang kanilang tinanganan at pinamana,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the long struggle moving forward, the Lumad community has not lost hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHindi kami nawawalan ng pag-asa na tiyak ang tagumpay sa aming pakikibaka, na tiyak na sa aming pagkilos makakamit namin ang hustisya dahil ang ating pakikibaka ay nakasandal sa pakikibaka ng sambayanang Pilipinong api at pinagsasamantalahan,\u201d said Dalon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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