DCS faculty members release statement on Lumad arrests in Cebu City

UP Diliman DCS faculty members release statement on Lumad arrests in Cebu City

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We, the undersigned faculty members of the UP Diliman Department of Computer Science strongly denounce how the AFP, Police, DSWD and Paramilitary groups forcefully took away students and teachers staying at the University of San Carlos - Talamban Campus. 

One of two teachers arrested was our honor graduate, Mr. Chad Booc, who teaches Mathematics at the Lumad School and is working to improve on the Manobo Dictionary, a translation app. 

We join the chorus of condemnations against the invasion of the University of San Carlos (a partner institution of the ERDT consortium); the abuse of children (described as a “rescue” operation); the maltreatment of cultural minorities and the utter disrespect for the SVD, the religious community in whose retreat house the Lumads stayed. 

We call for the immediate release of all the detainees.

SIGNED:

Henry Adorna

Ivan Carlo Balingit

Jerome Beltran

Vena Pearl Bongolan

Francis Cabarle

Jaime Caro

Mario Carreon

Kristofer delas Penas

Rommel Feria

Ligaya Leah Figueroa

Roselyn Gabud

Carlo Raquel

Paul Rossener Regonia

Ma. Rowena Solamo

Jaymar Soriano

Wilson Tan

Adrian Roy Valdez

Philip Christian Zuniga 

#FreeChadBooc

#FreeLumad26 

#StopTheAttacks