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Philippines: Lumad Bakwit graduation
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Created 1 Apr 2019
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![Sylvia Denota, indigenous Lumad from Mindanao<br />
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"I came here to Manila from Mindanao in 2017. We came because of Martial Law, the militarisation in our communities and our schools were closed, we had to evacuate and come here. <br />
<br />
I was in an evacuation centre [in Mindanao] with my parents since 2015, we still can’t go back home because of the militarisation, the area is closed, schools are closed.<br />
<br />
We were planning to go back in April, but the place is still full of soldiers, military, so we don’t know what will happen, we are afraid, but we want to go home.<br />
<br />
My parents are in the evacuation centre still. The military come and go as they please, they go into where you live without warning.<br />
<br />
Many people have been arrested, accused of being NPA, they are sometimes released after a couple of weeks, they have no evidence<br />
<br />
We invite people to visit, to see with their own eyes what is happening to us Lumads in Bukidnon."](https://www.hawkey.co.uk/img-get2/I00005WqYD81mz.U/fit=/fill=200x200/g=G0000y7lQdKtiZmI/I00005WqYD81mz.U.jpg)
![Katherine Dallo, indigenous Lumad from Mindanao (with mobile phone in her hand)<br />
<br />
"I’m here because in Mindanao, because of martial law, the military are attacking our [Lumad] schools, they close our schools, they kill our parents and some of our students. We are here to tell people what is happening and what martial law in Mindanao looks like. <br />
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Today is a special day because we could not expect that we would have a moving up ceremony, a graduation, because we expected that we would not ever have this because of the high militarisation of our communities. <br />
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Here in the Bakwit (evacuee) School, half of the students have lost their parents or family members.<br />
<br />
We need solidarity from other countries. Can you help us? We need support to end Martial Law in Mindanao, to save our schools. We are being deprived of social services like education and health, but also of our ancestral lands."](https://www.hawkey.co.uk/img-get2/I0000lxTToZJNN5k/fit=/fill=200x200/g=G0000y7lQdKtiZmI/I0000lxTToZJNN5k.jpg)
![Sylvia Denota, indigenous Lumad from Mindanao (centre)<br />
<br />
"I came here to Manila from Mindanao in 2017. We came because of Martial Law, the militarisation in our communities and our schools were closed, we had to evacuate and come here. <br />
<br />
I was in an evacuation centre [in Mindanao] with my parents since 2015, we still can’t go back home because of the militarisation, the area is closed, schools are closed.<br />
<br />
We were planning to go back in April, but the place is still full of soldiers, military, so we don’t know what will happen, we are afraid, but we want to go home.<br />
<br />
My parents are in the evacuation centre still. The military come and go as they please, they go into where you live without warning.<br />
<br />
Many people have been arrested, accused of being NPA, they are sometimes released after a couple of weeks, they have no evidence<br />
<br />
We invite people to visit, to see with their own eyes what is happening to us Lumads in Bukidnon."](https://www.hawkey.co.uk/img-get2/I0000JTJoANuMP8Q/fit=/fill=200x200/g=G0000y7lQdKtiZmI/I0000JTJoANuMP8Q.jpg)
