“There is no dignity, in policy nor in practice, in the way our indigenous peoples are being treated. Indigenous communities are being displaced and threatened by mining concessions; they are being massacred supposedly in the name of development. There is an ethnocide going on in this country,” Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
The highlight of the Kadayawan Festival in Davao City this month was the street performances, such as the one above. Most of the performers used cultural themes derived from Mindanao’s Lumads. Click here for Kadayawan slideshow. (Photos by Barry Ohaylan, Cheryll D. Fiel and Germelina A. Lacorte)