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Tribute to Chad Booc and the New Bataan 5
Some of you may know my story. I am one of the lucky few who survived an assassination attempt by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Persecuted and targeted for serving indigenous peoples, my story is not so different from that of the New Bataan 5.
One of the victims was Chad Booc. He graduated cum laude in computer science in the top university in the Philippines. He could have had a lucrative career anywhere, but he chose to serve the marginalized and neglected indigenous Lumad communities.
Like Chad, I became involved with a youth organization in college and learned about the plight of the Filipino people. I deplored how the indigenous peoples and their ancestral lands are exploited by their own government in the name of profit-driven development. This is manifested in the non-recognition of ancestral land rights, development aggression, government neglect, institutionalized discrimination, militarization and ethnocide, among others.