“Even members of their mercenary force like Ime, an indigenous Dumagat and an active Cafgu, experience harassment. For P4,500, the Army gets to step on indigenous people’s rights and dignity.”
By MARYA SALAMAT This is one of the reports in a series produced by Bulatlat.com with the Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) Media Fellowship. The series aims to report on linkages between gender, ecological conflicts and climate change....
“Kahit ilang beses kaming magbakwit, di kami titigil (No matter how many times we are displaced, we will not stop).”
Dumagat, Remontado and Mangyan indigenous peoples from Southern Tagalog picketed the office of the National Commission Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Quezon City where they held a traditional blood-letting ritual of a native chicken. The protest action was to condemn...
By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com TANAY, Rizal – “This is the land Makidiapat has chosen for the Dumagat. We inherited it from our ancestors,” a Dumagat chieftain asserted. Makidiapat is God to the Dumagats. Ka Lope dela Cruz, who leads Dumagat families in Ilaya ng Nayon...
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