Human Rights

Against their will, villagers in Baganga set up a barangay defense outpost

BAGANGA, DAVAO ORIENTAL (davaotoday.com)? Even before they could open it, villagers in Baganga town of Davao Oriental are already complaining about the 24-hour shift that running the Barangay Defense System outpost will entail. ?It will disrupt our farming activities,? one villager complained to a fact-finding and medical mission team that entered the area on October 21 to 23. ?BDS members don?t have salaries. What will our family eat?? Read on

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By GERMELINA LACORTE COLUMBIO, SULTAN KUDARAT -- B'laan farmer Tolyano Dalumatan had to go back to their old house in sitio Talambato in Matanao town of Davao del Sur to cut some bamboos for the walling of their new house in Columbio. "He didn?t even get to cut bamboos,? said a relative.

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Coming Home

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.

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