MANILA, Philippines—The controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), which has a P19 billion budget for 2021, on Wednesday (May 19) said it’s not done yet with seven individuals, who had been ordered freed by a court which found charges related to their work in helping young lumad evacuees to be baseless.
The NTF-Elcac, in a statement, said it would file a new set of criminal complaints against the seven individuals, known now as “Bakwit School 7” in Cebu City, for violating Republic Act No. 8371, or the Indigenous People’s Rights Act of 1997.
The new complaints, according to the task force, will “amplify the case” again…
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