Some people visit their loved ones at the Wireless Cemetery before the All Souls Day to avoid traffic in the area. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Cemetery-goers flock to the Bankerohan public market to buy flowers for their loved ones. Flowers range from P150 to P500. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
The Oplan Bayanihan of Noynoy Aquino as a deceptive program of “peace and development” has continuously displaced tribal inhabitants and dispossessed indigenous peoples of their ancestral domains.
About 20 students of Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation, Incorporated (MISFI) Academy in Kapalong, Davao del Norte, were reported to have been in the group who were fired upon by members of the tribal militia, called Alamara.
Saying the law on indigenous Filipinos has “failed to deter the plunder of our national patrimony and exploitation of our indigenous territories", the activist organization of tribal Filipinos called on the scrapping of both the law and the agency that was created to administer to the welfare of tribal Filipinos.