"There is no dignity, in policy nor in practice, in the way our indigenous peoples are being treated. Indigenous communities are being displaced and threatened by mining concessions; they are being massacred supposedly in the name of development. There is an ethnocide going on in this country," Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said.
Davao City ? Anakpawis is challenging here today Barangay Captain Colberto Tibay to demand for a speedy and genuine investigation on the killing of Alfonso Capiales and to order the immediate pull-out of military troop in Barangay Magsaysay.
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COMPOSTELA VALLEY? Karapatan belied here today the claim of military official recently that killed Anakpawis coordinator Alfonso Capiales in Nabunturan, Compostella Valley Province was a military informer.
The human-rights group Karapatan in Southern Mindanao condemned today the killing of another municipal and peasant leader of Anakpawis, who was shot dead in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley Province, on July 7.