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was taken from Bulatlat, the Philippines's alternative weekly
newsmagazine (www.bulatlat.com, www.bulatlat.net, www.bulatlat.org).
Vol. VI, No. 17, June 8, 2006
Kalinga Tribal Activist Shot Dead
BY BULATLAT 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).
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Posted 11:03 p.m., June 8, 2006