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Members of the Compostela Farmers’ Association and other support groups staged an indignation rally in front of the Eastern Mindanao Command in Panacan on Tuesday, Oct. 18 to demand justice for the killing of CFA leader and anti-mining advocate, Jimmy Saypan. Saypan's body was also brought to the protest site before heading to his hometown in Montevista, Compostela Valley Province. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

Unfazed by the water cannons used to disperse the protest action, a protester waves the flag of the Moro group Suara Bangsamoro outside the gates of the Armed Forces of the Philippines national headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City on Tuesday, October 18. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

A protester receives the full might of a water cannon fired at him from the Army's national headquarters, Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City during a protest rally led by national minority alliance group SANDUGO on Tuesday, October 18. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

National Democratic Front consultant Maria Loida Magpatoc reads a poem by Amado V. Hernandez “Kung Ang Luha Mo Ay Natutuyo Aking Inang Bayan” (If Your Tears Run Dry, My Motherland) during the second day of assembly of Sandugo, the national alliance of Moro and Lumad on Saturday, Oct. 15 in the GT-Toyota Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Leaders of various Lumad groups performed a ritual to denounce the National Commission of Indigenous Peoples during Monday’s protest rally in Quezon City. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)