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Michelle Campos, daughter of slain Lumad leader Dionel Campos, leads hundreds of Lumad evacuees inside the provincial sports center in Tandag City during the commemoration of the one year anniversary of the killing of Lumad leaders in Barangay Diatagon, Lianga town, Surigao del Sur province on Thursday afternoon, September 1. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com file photo)DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Surigao Manobo leaders Michelle Campos and Genasque Enriquez were reportedly arrested by military forces in different dates this week but have not been located, said the human rights group Karapatan. The group said Enriquez was arrested on March 2, 2025, while Campos was arrested at 2 am yesterday, March 6.
Campos is a youth leader whose father, Dionel Campos, was one of the three village leaders murdered in the Lianga Massacre of 2015. The paramilitary group Magahat-Bagani, with alleged links to the Philippine Army’s 75th Battalion were implicated in the massacre. Enriquez is a leader of the group Kasalo or Kahugpungan sa mga Lumadnong Organisasyon, and was detained in 2014 but released on bail on charges of murder, which the group said was a fabricated case.
Both leaders come from Lianga, Surigao del Sur, which was the area of the Lumad school Alcadev which was forcibly closed during the Duterte administration under its red-tagging of Lumad schools.
“We call on military forces to surface Michelle Campos and Genasque Enriquez, and to ensure that they are accorded their rights and personal integrity under the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) and Republic Act No. 9851 or the domestic law implementing the IHL,” Karapatan said in a statement.
This is a developing story.
