Kalinga Tribal
Activist Shot Dead
BY BULATLAT
Posted 11:03 p.m., June 8, 2006
Cordillera activist
Marcus “Macoy” Bangit was shot dead around 6:40 p.m. on June 8, at a
stopover restaurant along the national highway in Echague, Isabela.
He was on his way
back to Baguio onboard a GL bus from Tabuk, Kalinga when bonnet-masked
men riding a van shot him. Bangit sustained four gunshot wounds in the
chest and stomach.
Bangit, a young
Kalinga elder of the Malbong tribe, was a regional officer of the
Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) and chairperson of the Binodngan
Pongors Organization (BPO). Bulatlat
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