VISITING LUMAD SCHOOLS. Military troops enter the school ... On August 26, members of paramilitary group Magahat Bagani Force destroyed two of the academy’s buildings and a teachers’ cottage.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has also been criticized for appropriating the term when it formed a paramilitary group called Magahat-Bagani. The group was pit against fellow lumad ...

Also murdered by members of the paramilitary Magahat/Bagani Forces group (largely viewed as a creation of the Filipino military) were Dionel Campos, chairperson of the Indigenous organization MAPASU, ...

“The Army provided the bagani with weapons and bullets,” he said. The military has denied the charge vehemently and has accused the NPA of exploiting the lumad by recruiting villagers from ...

In the province of Surigao del Sur, indigenous peoples, collectively known as Lumads, have been under attack by gunmen of the paramilitary Magahat-Bagani Force. Human rights groups alleged that the ...

First, officials claim that the AFP is not in any way connected to the Magahat-Bagani and other paramilitary groups behind the killing of lumad in various parts of Mindanao. “I deny that report na ...

Therefore, the lumad killings are a form of state terrorism. There is no tribal war in the communities where the atrocities have taken place, as claimed by the AFP. The killings were done by members ...

1 killing of three Lumads in Lianga, Surigao del Sur. The Lianga killings were allegedly perpetrated by Mahagat/Bagani Force, a paramilitary group allegedly trained and equipped by the Armed Forces.

Due to the harassment and killings in the “lumad” community reportedly committed by the paramilitary group Magahat-Bagani, more than 3,000 people have fled their homes and are now staying at a ...

There are ongoing military operations in the area. Majority of the displaced Lumads came from the village of Diatagon after the Magahat-Bagani killed Emerito “Emok” Samarca, executive director ...

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), hundreds of Lumad, an umbrella term for multiple ... and military abuses — members of the Mahagat-Bagani militia, which it describes as a government ...