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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)

Around 1,000 Lumad and Moro activists trooped in front of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples office in Quezon City to call for the agency's abolition. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)