Davao city Administrator Wendell Avisado faces a lumad picket infront of City Hall, May 8. Datu Docris Daug, a tribal leader from barangay Daliaon Plantation, and lumads (indigenous people) from the K’tala-Bagobo tribe are asking Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s help in their quest for justice for slain tribal leader Dominador Diarog, who was killed April 29 when their house in sitio (subvillage) Kahusayan, barangay (village) Manuel Guianga in Calinan was strafed by unidentified men. The military blamed the New People’s Army (NPA) for the attack. But in a statement, the NPA denied having a hand in the strafing incident. Instead, the NPA pointed the culprits to be “working closely with the 73rd Infantry Battalion/Task Force Davao of the AFP at the behest of Apollo Quiboloy.” Quiboloy is known as a close friend of Duterte. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
CHILD’S PAIN. Four-year-old Mimi suffers from a gunshot wound after their house was strafed by unidentified armed men on April 29. Mimi is one of the ten children of slain tribal leader Dominador Diarog. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
The pain of Emily Diarog’s wound lingers. The wife of slain tribal leader Datu Dominador Diarog was hit, together with her children aged, 4 and 8, in a strafing incident that killed her husband. Datu Diarog, a tribal leader in sitio (subvillage) Kahusayan, barangay (village) Manuel Guianga, Calinan, had resisted selling his two-hectare of land adjacent to Quibuloy’s prayer mountain amidst mounting pressures for him to do so, according to the lumad group Pasaka. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
