By CHERYLL FIEL After one month and 13 days at the evacuation camp, the Manobo evacuees finally went home to Lianga on August 30. Aboard a convoy of 40 trucks to barangay Diatagon, the lumads left the grounds of the Diocese of Tandag that served as their evacuation camp. But barely a month after coming home, the soldiers are back again, recruiting them to the Task Force Gantangan, a paramilitary group to fight the government?s war against the insurgents.
DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) -- A partylist representative and leaders of indigenous peoples? groups in Mindanao said there?s no reason to celebrate the 15th year of International Day of Indigenous Peoples as the tribes continue to suffer from the atrocities of the Arroyo administration. "The Arroyo administration did not only fail to uphold, protect and promote IP rights,? Gabriela Women Partylist representative Luz Ilagan said, ?It has also violated these rights.? Read on
DAVAO CITY - - A lumad farmer survived a slay attempt in Baganga town of Davao Oriental on June 26 this year. ?I was lucky to have noticed the triggerman drew a gun as their motorcycle pulled alongside us. I heard three shots. They were so close, I could almost see the bullets whizzing by my head," Gonzales told Davao Today. Read on.
(Second of three parts) First Part : A Pattern to Madness AT LEAST three people whose names and groups were on the reported military list that Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo leaked to the media in May, were killed in the last two years. The picture of Pojas, killed on May 15 last year, appeared in one of the slides.
