CEBU CITY—The Central Visayas police has freed seven persons arrested last February on suspicion that they were recruiting lumad minors and training them as “child warriors” of communist rebel movement.
The detainees, known as Bakwit School 7, were released around 6 p.m. on Friday (May 14).
Davao del Norte Prosecutor Norman Solis, who dismissed the charges against the detainees, signed the release order.
Lawyer King Anthony Perez, spokesperson of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) Cebu, said the dismissal of the complaints against the seven detainees validated the claim that persistent red-tagging of lumad, or indigenous p…
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